Hello all,

Not sure if this is the right place for this, but I've been assigned a paper on pointing out economic flaws in Albert Bartlett's famous doomsday speech. If you haven't heard it, Bartlett basically points out trends of exponential growth in energy consumption, and how it's going to lead to the end times unless we somehow lower our population growth rate.

I need to point out three economic flaws in his argument. I know some obvious answers, such as the fact that more sustainable energy sources have been developed since he started giving these speeches, which would lead to less demand for fossil fuels. That's just a start. Does anyone know of any papers that deal with economic answers to exponential growth?

Thanks.