Albert Bartlett

If you have been following the UK news recently, you are probably aware of the antics of an outfit calling itself Just Stop Oil, a coalition of groups intent on stopping oil and gas, period. Currently on the homepage of its website there is a video of a young woman who berates the viewer tearfully. […]

Albert Bartlett spent over sixty years in the University of Colorado at Boulder, during which time he delivered his classic lecture on arithmetic, population and energy over seventeen hundred times, a lecture that may be summed up in one sentence: “The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function”. […]