The Limits to growth : a report for the Club of Rome's project on the predicament of mankind / [by] Donella H. Meadows [and others]

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Universe Books ; [1972]Description: 205 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 0876631650
  • 0876639015
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330.9/04
LOC classification:
  • HC 59 .L54 1972
Online resources:
Contents:
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
Summary: "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.
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BOOKS BOOKS Niebyl-Proctor Marxist Library General Stacks The Karl H. Niebyl Collection HC 59 .L54 1972 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not For Loan NPML20050001

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.

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