What Happened Today? Feather Sound walk with Kay. All Day training session with Alberdingk-Boley. Dinner with Mike O’Shaughnessy.
GAIA- Planetary Management:
126. Exponential growth is one of the most important concepts we shall encounter in this book.
127. It is growth that is not simply additive (two plus two equals four and another two makes six); rather it is a self-compounding (two multiplied by two equals four, multiplied by two equals 8).
128. Very few people realize its implications for our future existence on Earth.
129. If Africa, for example, maintain its present three percent growth rate until this time next century, its current 630 million people will increase to 9.5 billion.
130. Evolution: Revolution- We stand at a unique point in evolution, when planet-wide changes are proceeding faster than ever before.