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Quotes from The Arithmetic of Energy Growth — Albert Allen Bartlett

1923–2013 United States

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We must realize that growth is but an adolescent phase of life that stops when physical maturity is reached. If growth continues after maturity, it is called obesity or cancer. Prescribing growth as the cure of the energy crisis has all the logic of prescribing gluttony as a remedy for obesity or prescribing cancer as the cure for carcinoma.

The Arithmetic of Energy Growth (1977)

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