Exponential growth is a pattern of data that shows greater increases with passing time, creating the curve of an exponential function.

One of the foundational notions of sustainability is that long-term exponential growth in a finite world can only lead to catastrophe. In the last half-year or so we have seen a real-time example of ...

The point is this: bacteria could not do their amazing, everyday work at our scale—for example, digesting food for us—if it weren’t for exponential growth. Not So Fast!