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Limits to Growth at 50 Years
Limits to Growth at 50 Years
The End of Growth: ten years after
The End of Growth: ten years after Fifty years ago the authors of the groundbreaking book The Limits to Growth showed that, in any of a series of computer-generated scenarios, world economic growth would end sometime during the 21st century. Using simple math and logic, they pointed out that growth in any material input or output cannot continue […]
Modernity is incompatible with planetary limits: Developing a PLAN for the future
Modernity is incompatible with planetary limits: Developing a PLAN for the future Abstract This age of modernity is characterized by consistent growth in energy use, economic activity, and resource consumption, and a generally increasing standard of living—albeit inequitably distributed. All currently living humans, and most academic disciplines, have developed in this age, which appears normal […]
Climate Change and the Limits of Economic Growth
Shutterstock CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE LIMITS OF ECONOMIC GROWTH If economic growth ushered in this era of climate change, how can economic growth also be part of the solution? Since the nineteenth century, human society has experienced extraordinary but uneven economic growth thanks to the energy unleashed from fossil fuels. That growth, and the greenhouse […]
Small Farm Future: Why some anticipated problems will not arise
Small Farm Future: Why some anticipated problems will not arise In his book Small Farm Future Chris Smaje worries about some problems that might arise in a society in which these kinds of farms meet most food demand. This area is also targeted by Alex Heffron and Kai Heron in their critique of the book, which their […]
That Untraversed Land
That Untraversed Land It’s been just over a month since I started talking about how the predictions set out in 1972 by The Limits to Growth were coming true in our time. Since then the situation has become steadily worse. As I write this, rolling blackouts are leaving millions of people in China to huddle in the dark and […]
WEIRD – Thinking Beyond Technology: Issue no.5, “Research for the End of Your ‘Normal’ Everyday Existence” Mabon 2021
WEIRD – Thinking Beyond Technology: Issue no.5, “Research for the End of Your ‘Normal’ Everyday Existence” Mabon 2021 Go to ‘WEIRD’: Thinking Beyond Technology – Main Index Click here for a brief explanation about the ‘WEIRD’ newsletter. Download this edition A4 format PDF – for printing at A4, single- or double-sided, stapled in the top-left corner; or A3 brochure format PDF – for printing […]
Rex Weyler: Why is the political process so slow to respond to our ecological crisis?
Rex Weyler: Why is the political process so slow to respond to our ecological crisis? Preface. Rex Weyler is one of the co-founders of Greenpeace in Canada, a brilliant ecologist and journalist, and more. His blog is here: https://www.rexweyler.ca/greenpeace *** Rex Wyler. September 2021. Ecological crisis: Might as well speak the truth Why is the political process […]
A Prayer for Nonbelievers
A Prayer for Nonbelievers I was ten years old when The Limits to Growth first saw print. I have a dim memory of seeing a newspaper article or two about it, but I had other things on my mind in 1972—my parents got divorced that year, and an already difficult childhood promptly got much worse—and several years […]
‘The Limits to Growth’ (1972)
‘The Limits to Growth’ (1972) Published in 1972, and shrouded in controversy since that date, ‘The Limits to Growth’ is the most successful econometric projection ever made. The idea of these of blog posts is to introduce people to some ‘historic’ books and reports, which I think should be more widely read. To start, I […]
The century of the limits
The century of the limits IMPOSSIBLE IS NOTHING. JUST DO IT. SMASH YOUR LIMITS We know much better some slogans that sell us that everything is possible, than the laws of thermodynamics, which govern our own nature and the limits that bound it. And so it goes. This is our frame of thought and from it […]
The Future is a Landscape
The Future is a Landscape I’ve been reflecting of late about the way that our habitual expectations about change blind us to the way that change actually happens. One of the most important of these is the frankly weird but pervasive notion that the future is a single place, where only one kind of thing […]
What Kind of Mindsets Lead Us Into Traps?
What Kind of Mindsets Lead Us Into Traps? First picture: Morning, Hamilton Ranch (aka Carroll Ranch), Big Hole Valley, Montana Second picture: Beaverslide used for hay. Agriculture is what led into civilization. After quite an interesting last week, I have a better understanding of why so many people fall into the different “traps” and mindsets that we […]
Mining of Minerals and the Limits to Growth
Mining of Minerals and the Limits to Growth The mining of minerals is linked to the 1972 Limits to Growth study. There are a number of technical problems the business model behind mining is struggling with now. Challenges for the proposed expansion in mining to construct a non-fossil fuel system (EV’s, batteries, wind turbines, solar […]
