The book's central argument and thesis
Key sources with critical annotations
Overview and outline of the book's chapters
Jupyter notebooks and datasets used in the research
This book critically examines the legacy of Al Bartlett (1923–2013), the University of Colorado Boulder physicist whose lecture “Arithmetic, Population and Energy” became one of the most-watched science presentations in history. Drawing on computational text analysis and historical research, this project argues that Bartlett’s neo-Malthusianism provided intellectual cover for exclusionary growth politics in Boulder, Colorado — and traces how these ideas shaped land use, housing affordability, and environmental discourse in the American West.