Specifically, y = exp(x) is unknown by just about everyone, expecially people who have not taken calculus.
If people understood y = exp(x) then they would be terribly fearful of inflation greater than 3 percent.
They would never allow year-on-year deficit spending.
If they understood it, they would be prodigious savers, economizers of everything, and would avoid credit cards and procrastination of all kinds.
They would be able to tell the difference between thousand, million, billion, and trillion, which they apparently are unable to do now.
They would be hard to fool or lie to.
People like this biologist who want us to abandon calculus are just Cloward-Piven afficianados in yet another guise, trying to get us to abandon the pillars of civilization, and tricking us into pouring sand into the gas tank of our great economy and culture.
Anyone who calls themselves an academic but wants to end the teaching of calculus is a pathetic joke. If there was a place I could move to in America where such thinking was unconscionable I would want to live there. There is an eloquence of Calculus, and all math. Math, chemistry, biology, are all discipline that help us to think and explore the universe we exist in. They allow us to think beyond ourselves. They allow us to see spirituality and the building blocks of creation at a fundamental level (my personal opinion).
But in the current culture it’s more important to be able to post to Instagram and know what twerking is.
We’ve had a societal choice equivalent to a decision between Rembrandt vs paint-by-numbers matadors on velvet, and we chose the latter. So I guess why not dumb it down even further..