The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.
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| Birth: | 21st March, 1923 |
| Death: | 7th September, 2013 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Physicist, Professor |
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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.
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