BaCCC/Video Summaries/The Impossible Hamster
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The Impossible Hamster (1:09)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sqwd_u6HkMo
- From birth to puberty, a hamster doubles its weight each week.
- If it did not stop when mature, as animals do, and continued to double, on its first birthday, we would be staring at a 9-billion-ton hamster.
- This hamster could eat all of the corn produced annually worldwide in a single day and still be hungry.
- There is a reason why in nature, things grow in size only to a certain point; so, why do economists and politicians think that the economy can grow forever and ever?
