Sorry about the thread necromancy, but I came across this video again recently and I think it's something everyone in this thread (and everyone else) needs to see.
"2 million views for an old codger giving a lecture about arithmetic? What's going on? You'll just have to watch to see what's so damn amazing about what he (Albert Bartlett) has to say.
I introduce this video to my students as "Perhaps the most boring video you'll ever see, and definitely the most important." But then again, after watching it most said that if you followed along with what the presenter (a professor emeritus of Physics at Univ of Colorado-Boulder) is saying, it's quite easy to pay attention, because it is so damn compelling"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY
If you've watched this, and still think that there is no merit towards having a rational discussion about depopulation, then I don't know what else to say to you!
