The Limits to growth : a report for the Club of Rome's project on the predicament of mankind /
The Limits to growth : a report for the Club of Rome's project on the predicament of mankind /
[by] Donella H. Meadows [and others]
- New York : Universe Books ; [1972]
- 205 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Includes figures and tables on population increase, agricultural production, industrial output, nonrenewable resource depletion, and pollution generation, as well as additional factors relating to industrial production. A report for the Club of Rome's project on the predicament of mankind.
Includes bibliographical references ( pages 198 - 200.)
I. The nature of exponential growth -- II. The limits to exponential growth -- III. Growth in the world system -- IV. Technology and the limits to growth -- V. The state of global equilibrium -- Commentary by the Club of Rome executive commitee
From a study conducted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the summer of 1970.
"The message of this book is urgent and sobering : The earth's interlocking resources -- the global system of nature in which we all live -- probably cannot support present rates of population and economic growth much beyond the year 2100., if that long, even with advanced technology. In the summer of 1970, an international team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology began a study of the implications of continued worldwide growth. They examined the five basic factors that determine, and in their interactions, ultimately limit growth on this plant - population increase, agricultural production, nonrenewable resource depletion, industrial output, and pollution generation. The MIT team fed data on these five factors into a global computer model and then tested the behavior of the model under several sets of assumptions to determine alternative patterns for mankind's future. The Limits to Growth is the nontechnical reports of their findings. " -- back cover.
0876631650 0876639015
73187907
Economic history--1971-1990.
Economic development.
Social history--1945-
HC 59 / .L54 1972
330.9/04
Includes figures and tables on population increase, agricultural production, industrial output, nonrenewable resource depletion, and pollution generation, as well as additional factors relating to industrial production. A report for the Club of Rome's project on the predicament of mankind.
Includes bibliographical references ( pages 198 - 200.)
I. The nature of exponential growth -- II. The limits to exponential growth -- III. Growth in the world system -- IV. Technology and the limits to growth -- V. The state of global equilibrium -- Commentary by the Club of Rome executive commitee
From a study conducted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the summer of 1970.
"The message of this book is urgent and sobering : The earth's interlocking resources -- the global system of nature in which we all live -- probably cannot support present rates of population and economic growth much beyond the year 2100., if that long, even with advanced technology. In the summer of 1970, an international team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology began a study of the implications of continued worldwide growth. They examined the five basic factors that determine, and in their interactions, ultimately limit growth on this plant - population increase, agricultural production, nonrenewable resource depletion, industrial output, and pollution generation. The MIT team fed data on these five factors into a global computer model and then tested the behavior of the model under several sets of assumptions to determine alternative patterns for mankind's future. The Limits to Growth is the nontechnical reports of their findings. " -- back cover.
0876631650 0876639015
73187907
Economic history--1971-1990.
Economic development.
Social history--1945-
HC 59 / .L54 1972
330.9/04