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You have missed the point. The problem is not that we have to run the AC more than we used to. The problem is that our situation changed from one where we bar
by lisper 5y ago
You have missed the point. The problem is not that we have to run the AC more than we used to. The problem is that our situation changed from one where we barely needed AC to one where we now need it regularly in a mere 10 years.
- pengaru 5y agoThere's some interesting classes by Al Bartlett on youtube where he discusses population growth and the exponential function in general, he was a professor at Boulder, CO. One of his salient points IIRC was when you're living through an exponential curve that's approaching some crisis threshold, be it population growth leading to civilization collapse, or some resource consumption exhausting its supply, it happens very abruptly because you jump from just halfway to the end, which through a linear lens appears very distant, to at the critical end, in just a single doubling period.