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

'Smart growth' destroys the environment. 'Dumb growth' destroys the environment. The only difference is that 'smart growth' does it with good taste. …

- Albert Allen Bartlett

The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.

- 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 st…

- Albert Allen Bartlett

The first law of sustainability: population growth and/or growth in the rate of consumption of resources cannot be sustained

- 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 demonstrab…

- Albert Allen Bartlett

Modern agriculture is the use of land to convert petroleum into food.

- Albert Allen Bartlett