Exponential
COVID-19 is finally teaching us the nature of exponential growth. It’s a painful lesson, but a necessary one: how incremental change seems slow at first (698 new daily cases on 25 January) and then accelerates (48,460 new daily cases on 25 March). The ecological impacts of economic growth over the past 50 years have the same devastating viral curves, as the ICGB’s Great Acceleration charts illustrate. Viewed from the Earth’s perspective, humans are the out-of-control virus. Exponential growth in a finite system is unsustainable. Period. But remember: solutions – for the pandemic and the sustainability crisis – can also spread virally.
— Wayne Visser
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