Excellent video resource: Bartlett, "Arithmetic, Population, & Energy"

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A popular lecture given by Dr. Albert Bartlett, Professor Emeritus of Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder, in this video speaking at the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics in 2004: Realplayer stream

If you need to help anyone understand the problems of exponential consumption growth against a finite resource, this will do it. Prof. Bartlett has given the talk over 1400 times across the country. It's not enough. Unfortunately, the video stream I linked is too low-res to show all the slides clearly, but you can order a video tape from

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The text of the paper is also online in various forms, e.g.,
http://www.npg.org/specialreports/bartlett_section2.htm