Albert Allen Bartlett Quotes

United States, Physicist
March 21, 1923 – September, 7, 2013.

Albert Allen Bartlett was an emeritus professor of physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA. 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 will inevitably equate to huge exponential growth over sustained periods of time. He therefore regarded human overpopulation as "The Greatest Challenge" facing humanity.

Also known as Professor

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?

Albert Allen Bartlett
- People
- Nation
- Crowd
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.

Albert Allen Bartlett

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?

Albert Allen Bartlett
'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.

Albert Allen Bartlett
- Growth
- Smart
- Dumb
The first law of sustainability: population growth and/or growth in the rate of consumption of resources cannot be sustained

Albert Allen Bartlett
- Law
- Growth
- Resources
Modern agriculture is the use of land to convert petroleum into food.

Albert Allen Bartlett
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.

Albert Allen Bartlett
- Life
- Baseball
- National