{"id":206,"date":"2014-05-19T20:24:05","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T20:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/?p=206"},"modified":"2017-10-13T20:46:54","modified_gmt":"2017-10-13T20:46:54","slug":"robert-stark-interviews-professor-albert-bartlett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/?p=206","title":{"rendered":"Robert Stark Interviews Professor Albert Bartlett"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Albert Bartlett is Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Colorado at Boulder <span id=\"more-31959\"><\/span>who is an internationally-known and widely-published expert on the economics of sustainability and growth. He is the author of <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.albartlett.org\/books\/essential_exponential.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Essential Exponential<\/a><\/em> and of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.albartlett.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.albartlett.org\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Topics discussed:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The dynamics of population growth and overpopulation<\/li>\n<li>The necessity of addressing population in environmental policies<\/li>\n<li>Boulder, Colorado\u2019s tax to buy open lands to take them out of development<\/li>\n<li>Sustainable growth as an oxymoron<\/li>\n<li>Political motives for increased growth<\/li>\n<li>Urban growth always outstrips revenues and promotes debt.<\/li>\n<li>Immigration as a cause of population growth<\/li>\n<li>Political motives for increasing immigration<\/li>\n<li>You cannot sustain a country by importing labor.<\/li>\n<li>Population growth dilutes democratic representation.<\/li>\n<li>Population growth undermines freedom of action.<\/li>\n<li>The necessity of making free family planning world-wide<\/li>\n<li>The energy crisis requires addressing population growth.<\/li>\n<li>Modern technology does not disprove Malthusianism.<\/li>\n<li>Peak oil<\/li>\n<li>The limits of alternative energies<\/li>\n<li>The necessity of global solutions to environmental and population issues<\/li>\n<li>Urban planning defines problem solving as removing impediments to growth which leads to new problems.<\/li>\n<li>Bartlett\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.albartlett.org\/presentations\/arithmetic_population_energy.html\" target=\"_blank\">Arithmetic, Population, and Energy<\/a>\u201c<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-206-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/CCR-The_Stark_Truth-20121001-Al_Bartlett.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/CCR-The_Stark_Truth-20121001-Al_Bartlett.mp3\">https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/CCR-The_Stark_Truth-20121001-Al_Bartlett.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/?p=206\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Robert Stark Interviews Professor Albert Bartlett<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[523,4,3,310,7,228],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-albert-bartlett","category-environment","category-immigration","category-overdevelopment","category-overpopulation","category-peak-oil"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=206"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206\/revisions\/208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}