[Ads-l] Quote: Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist

ADSGarson O'Toole adsgarsonotoole at GMAIL.COM
Fri Jul 12 03:25:58 UTC 2019


I forgot to include a link to the QI article:
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2019/07/11/exponential/

Garson

On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 11:22 PM ADSGarson O'Toole
<adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Way back on October 9, 2018 I was sent a request to explore the
> quotation in the subject line. I performed the primary research back
> in 2018. Now, the QI website has an entry. See further below.
>
> Unbeknownst to me, Barry Popik created an entry on January 23, 2019. I
> added his name to the acknowledgement section although I did not see
> his work until after the QI article was completed.
>
> I think the QI entry is still worthwhile. It contains a slightly
> earlier close match (if one assumes "Fall 1973" occurs before October
> 8, 1973). The QI entry also contains an interesting partial match from
> Kenneth Boulding in 1953.
>
> [Begin acknowledgement]
> Great thanks to Roy Allen whose tweet inquiry in October 2018 led QI
> to formulate this question and perform this exploration. Allen saw a
> tweet by environmental activist George Monbiot who stated that an
> attribution of the quotation to Attenborough was incorrect. Additional
> thanks to the volunteer Wikipedia editors who located the November 29,
> 1973 citation, and Barry Popik who located the October 1973 citation.
> [End acknowledgement]
>
> Here is a link to Barry's article:
> https://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/new_york_city/entry/anyone_who_believes_in_exponential/
>
> Feedback welcome
> Garson

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