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A standard exponential growth corresponds to a constant growth rate, let's say, of 10 percent The point is that, many times during bubbles, there are positive feedbacks which can be of many times, such that previous growths enhance, push forward, increase the next growth through this kind of super-exponential growth, which is very trenchant, not sustainable.
This is the expression of the stock market of a massive bubble, a factor of three, 300 percent in just a few years.
Three weeks after my presentation, the markets lost 20 percent and went through a phase of volatility, upheaval, and a total market loss of 70 percent until the end of the year.
Ten percent of those same 7,800 houses had safe electrical systems.
And 58 percent of those houses had a working toilet.
We can get showers up to 86 percent working, we can get electrical systems up to 77 percent working and we can get 90 percent of toilets working in those 7,500 houses.
Well, nine percent of what we spend is damage, misuse or abuse of any sort.
It's a developing-world illness, and yet, the picture you see behind is in an Aboriginal community in the late 1990s, where 95 percent of school-aged kids had active trachoma in their eyes, doing damage.
That's why they migrate to cities. That's why in June of this year, we passed, as a species, 51 percent of us living in cities, and bustees, and slums, and shantytowns.
One percent of us own 40 percent of all the goods and services.
The one percent will own even more than 40 percent of all the world's goods and services.
70 percent of Bangladesh is at less than five feet above sea level.
And when academics have done studies like this of corporations in the United States, what they find is 85 percent of people say yes.
Eighty-five percent of people know there's a problem, but they won't say anything.
Eighty-five percent.
But today, only two percent of the ocean is fully protected from fishing and other activities.
Studies suggest that we need at least 30 percent of the ocean under protection not just to save marine life, but to save us, too.
China, Taiwan, Japan, Korea and Spain alone account for almost 80 percent of the fishing in the high seas.
And this would not affect our ability to feed our growing population, because the high seas provide only five percent of the global marine catch, because the high seas are not as productive as near-shore waters.
Now, I'm from New York, so it's 100 percent satisfaction here.
Actually, that's ridiculous, because when it comes to humor, 75 percent is really absolutely the best you can hope for.
Nobody is ever satisfied 100 percent with humor except this woman.
Generally, about 85 percent of the people liked it.
It's 95 percent of the humor.
Eighty percent of the entire world's poverty alleviation during that period happened in China.
Satisfaction with the direction of the country: 85 percent.
Those who think they're better off than five years ago: 70 percent.
Those who expect the future to be better: a whopping 82 percent.
Ninety-three percent of China's Generation Y are optimistic about their country's future.
Governments get elected, and then they fall below 50 percent approval in a few months and stay there and get worse until the next election.
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