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Calculate how long a non-renewable resource will last when being consumed at an exponentially growing rate.

If a non-renewable resource is expressed as a multiple times the present annual rate of consumption and the annual rate of consumption is growing at percent per year, the resource will be fully exploited in ____ years time.

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Consumption Growth 101

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The strategies for addressing global environmental issues are clear: Efficiencies must be improved, personal consumption reduced and renewable energy embraced. But have environmental advocates really got it right. Or are we being led up the garden path.

More or Less explores the fundamentals of consumption and uncovers some basic truths that are... well... rather inconvenient.

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