Albert Bartlett is Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder who is an internationally-known and widely-published expert on the economics of sustainability and growth. He is the author of The Essential Exponential and of http://www.albartlett.org/.

Topics discussed:

• The dynamics of population growth and overpopulation
• The necessity of addressing population in environmental policies
• Boulder, Colorado’s tax to buy open lands to take them out of development
• Sustainable growth as an oxymoron
• Political motives for increased growth
• Urban growth always outstrips revenues and promotes debt.
• Immigration as a cause of population growth
• Political motives for increasing immigration
• You cannot sustain a country by importing labor.
• Population growth dilutes democratic representation.
• Population growth undermines freedom of action.
• The necessity of making free family planning world-wide
• The energy crisis requires addressing population growth.
• Modern technology does not disprove Malthusianism.
• Peak oil
• The limits of alternative energies
• The necessity of global solutions to environmental and population issues
• Urban planning defines problem solving as removing impediments to growth which leads to new problems.
• Bartlett’s “Arithmetic, Population, and Energy“