It has been more than 30 years since a groundbreaking book predicted that if growth continued unchecked, the Earth’s ecological systems would be overwhelmed within a century. The latest study from an international team of scientists should serve as an eleventh-hour warning that cannot be ignored….
For more on limits to growth see:
- The Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
- Planetary Boundaries, a set of articles in Nature
- “Revisiting the Limits to Growth After Peak Oil”, American Scientist, May-June 2009
- “Limits to Growth Model Worth Another Look”, The Oil Drum, 25 Apr 2009
- “New Limits to Growth Revive Malthusian Fears”, Wall Street Journal, 24 Mar 2008
- “Limits to growth and related stuff”, by economist Paul Krugman, New York Times, 22 Apr 2008
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- “The End of Cheap Oil” by Colin Campbell & Jean Laherrère Scientific American, March 1998...
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