Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
Dennis Meadows
Professor and Co-Author
October 9, 2004
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In 1972 four young scientists at MIT wrote a book called The Limits to
Growth that shocked the world and became an international
best-seller. Using the World3 computer model, the authors looked into
the future and sounded an alarm, for the first time showing the
consequences of unchecked growth on a finite planet. Their book gained
worldwide attention and became the cornerstone of a global debate on how
to achieve a sustainable future. Twenty years later the authors wrote Beyond the Limits, a follow-up
volume that showed humanity was already overshooting Earth's limits. Beyond
the Limits again provoked a national debate and galvanized the
scientific and environmental academics leaders to incorporate Limits
to Growth into the core environmental studies curriculum.
Now Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update brings data on overshoot and global ecological collapse to the present moment. It provides a short course in the World3 computer model, types of growth, and the various kinds of overshoot likely to occur in the current century. While it remains to be seen whether public policy will respond effectively and in time to problems such as climate change, this book makes a compelling case for the vital need for a Sustainability Revolution.
About the Authors
Dennis Meadows is a professor of Systems Management and director of the Institute for Policy and Social Science Research at the University of New Hampshire. He lives in Durham, New Hampshire.
Donella Meadows, who died unexpectedly in 2001, was a systems analyst and adjunct professor of Environmental Studies at Dartmouth College and wrote the nationally syndicated newspaper column "The Global Citizen." Jorgen Randers is a policy analyst, professor and former President of the Norwegian School of Management. He is also the former Deputy Director General of WWF International. Randers lives in Oslo Norway.
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