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RESOURCES & ENVIRON
"Forgotten Fundamentals of the Energy Crisis" bv Albert A. Bartlett. in American Jour~zulof Physics (Sept. 1978), 335 East 45th St., New York, N.Y. 10017.
When the consumption of a resource, such as oil or coal, is growing at a fixed rate per year, the growth is said to be exponential and consumption doubles at predictable intervals. We are ignoring the arithmetic of expo- nential growth at our peril, says Bartlett, physicist at the University of Colorado, B...

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