Given beneficial environmental conditions, algae populations double their numbers every few hours, pushing ecosystems past tipping points. Algae goes from a crucial energy base to a destructive force.
Just like algae blooms, the continuous growth regime of our economy wreaks havoc on the planet’s ecosystems. Regimes of Growth is a model of capital flows in the economic system, where the distribution of nutrients into containers induces destructive exponential growth in algae cultures.