Please send me an e-mail. I would like to e-mail back to you some reprints of my articles on resources and limits and sustainability.

With thanks and best wishes, I am,

Sincerely yours,

Albert A. Bartlett
Professor Emeritus of Physics
University of Colorado at Boulder

It seems to me that our idea of freedom and personal liberty has become entirely bound up in the conception of growth…

I think that one of the reasons that discussing problems with population or economic growth meets such intense resistance is that we somehow associate it with attack on our own personal liberty. In reality we have overstepped the freedoms that are ours to take…

Rex Weyler replies:

Of course, share it with anyone. Thank you. rw.

Nobody likes limits.

And the fantasty of economic growth is that there are no limits.

Atwood, like other intelligent people who have highlighted limits to growth, is getting defensive reactions protecting a system that itself professes not to have limits.

Since the Emperor has no clothes in this instance, those reactions must be challenged.

If we are not able to embrace the simple pleasures of life as our real source of joy, we may – quite simply – have nothing left to embrace.

On every level, challenging the religion, fanaticism, and simple error of the growth ideal becomes a true act of survival.

Margaret Atwood and others are making it that much easier for all of us.