Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Albert Allen Bartlett

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Last updated on November 21, 2024.
Albert Allen Bartlett

Albert Allen Bartlett was an emeritus professor of physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder, US. As of July 2001 Professor Bartlett had lectured over 1,742 times since September, 1969 on Arithmetic, Population, and Energy. Bartlett regarded the word combination "sustainable growth" as an oxymoron, since even modest annual percentage population increases can represent exponential growth. Over time, huge changes will then occur. He therefore regarded human overpopulation as "The Greatest Challenge" facing humanity.

March 21, 1923 - September 7, 2013
Can you think of anything that can get better if we crowd more people into our cities, our towns, into our state our nation or on this earth?
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.
'Smart growth' destroys the environment. 'Dumb growth' destroys the environment. The only difference is that 'smart growth' does it with good taste. It's like booking passage on the Titanic. Whether you go first-class or steerage, the result is the same.
The first law of sustainability: population growth and/or growth in the rate of consumption of resources cannot be sustained — © Albert Allen Bartlett
The first law of sustainability: population growth and/or growth in the rate of consumption of resources cannot be sustained
Baseball is part of America's plot, part of America's mysterious, underlying design-the plot in which we all conspire and collude, the plot of the story of our national life.
Can you think of any problem, in any area of human endeavour, on any scale, from microscopic to global, whose long-term solution is in any demonstrable way aided, assisted, or advanced by further increases in population, locally, nationally, or globally?
Modern agriculture is the use of land to convert petroleum into food.
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