Exponential growth isn't risk.
The consequences of it are, and not understanding the nature of exponential growth also creates risk in itself (in the form of severely underestimating risk).
If you're hoping people would care about the topic because of risks....I kinda would hope that risk could be conveyed beyond "risk".
An example of exponential growth being a risk would be the risk of societal backlash when blue collar work is automated away at a large scale.
And to GPs point, those reaping the rewards of the growth are not those impacted by the first or second order effects.
How exponential growth works, for one. Two, its implications on JIT supply chains modern society operates on.
In all honesty, money flow is the most powerful force on this planet. On the face of it, this looks like a pretty trite observation, but it isn't. What it means is that if you study the feedback loops and incentive structures, look at the market as a dynamic system, you'll see where things are heading - and that picture is very bleak.
For instance, you can be damn sure that no matter how badly this epidemic goes, the next one will be handled just as badly. All the problems: lack of tests, disappearing protective equipment, fragile supply chains - are a direct and predictable consequence of market pressures, which chip away all safety buffers, piece by piece. You can't fix this without reducing or removing the influence of market pressures in many points across our society - which is synonymous with the trite saying, "we need to stop X from being driven by money".