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Here Alan AtKisson describes Exponential Growth during a presentation to the Australian Environmental Protection Agency in 2001.
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LYRICS:
Here's a story meant to warn you or enlighten you or both
It's a little complicated but you really need to knowth
About this dangerous phenomenon -- I swear to you an oath
That there's trouble in this world from all the Exponential Growth Exponential Growth -- Oh! -- Exponential Growth Yes there's trouble in this world from all the Exponential Growth Exponential Growth -- Look out for! -- Exponential Growth You can run but you can't hide from all the Exponential Growth
A rate of 2% per year may sound like things are going slowth
But that's really very fast as my example soon will showth
There's six people now, there will be twelve if on it goeth
in just 35 more years because of Exponential Growth Exponential Growth -- Oh! -- Exponential Growth You can run but you can't hide from all the Exponential Growth Exponential Growth -- Look out for! -- Exponential Growth What's that creeping up behind you? -- yes, it's Exponential Growth
If I sing along on one note and I slowly raise the pitch
I can demonstrate the process -- note just *when I make a switch
Seems like nothing much is happening, it's *just a little rise
But the *changes come much *faster and you're *sud-*den-*ly-*up-*to-*your-*eyes! in all the ... Exponential Growth -- Oh! -- Exponential Growth You can run but you can't hide from all the Exponential Growth Exponential Growth -- Look out for! -- Exponential Growth What's that creeping up behind you? -- yes, it's Exponential Growth
To reinforce the message of this song I have compothed
Here's another demonstration of just why this is the motht
subtle danger that we face if we just let society coatht
(speeding up) We'll go faster-faster-faster thanks to exponential growth
(faster and faster) Exponential Growth -- Oh! -- Exponential Growth You can run but you can't hide from all the Exponential Growth Exponential Growth -- Look out ... (unintelligible blur of speeding syllables, coming to a sudden stop) (slowly) Exponential Growth!
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its great! :D saw this keynote last week ...
dreadjojo 8 months ago
FAIL!
jagalmighty 2 years ago
This is hilarious ( in a good way) and gets stuck in your head so easily. xD
Just one note - in the lyrics, it says 6 people instead of 6 billion - a bit of a difference there, hehe. ;)
Yrior 3 years ago