Forum Post: The Limits of The Limits to Growth
Posted 11 years ago on Oct. 2, 2012, 10:04 a.m. EST by notaneoliberal
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just in time for Earth Day Ronald Bailey | April 18, 2012...... Forty years ago, The Limits to Growth, a report to the Club of Rome, was released with great fanfare at a conference at the Smithsonian Institution. The study was based on a computer model developed by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and designed “to investigate five major trends of global concern—accelerating industrial development, rapid population growth, widespread malnutrition, depletion of nonrenewable resources, and a deteriorating environment.” The goal was to use the model to explore the increasingly dire "predicament of mankind." The researchers modestly acknowledged that their model was “like every other model, imperfect, oversimplified, and unfinished.”..... http://reason.com/archives/2012/04/18/the-limits-to-growth-40-year-update
Thanks for bringing this up. To explore this further, I suggest exploring my blog series honoring the 40th anniversary of The Limits to Growth (lots of video, essays, etc.): http://www.growthbusters.org/home/limits-to-growth/
Dave Gardner Director of the documentary GrowthBusters: Hooked on Growth
Thanks for weighing in Dave. I'm familiar with your work from way back. Good to see you here. Keep up the good work. Your website is excellent.
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Good links. The lack of a clear understanding of this issue makes realistic solutions to our problems impossible.
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Over population?
Does anyone here, have an awareness of this issue?
Here is a comprehensive solution but is not a politically correct one (but limits to growth are not politically correct):
http://www.naturalmoney.org/buildfuture.html
I must say, this does give a comprehensive picture of the problems. Unfortunately, as you say, the solutions are not politically correct.