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Our principal constraints are cultural. During the last two centuries we have known nothing but exponential growth and in parallel we have evolved what amounts to an exponential-growth culture, a culture so heavily dependent upon the continuance of exponential growth for its stability that it is incapable of reckoning with problems of non-growth.

M. King Hubbert

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M. King Hubbert
Age: 86 †
Born: 1903
Born: October 5
Died: 1989
Died: October 18
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San Saba
Texas
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