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The Limits to Growth : the 30-Year Update by Donella H. Meadows;Jorgen Randers;Dennis Meadows is a science book available to read on EtoBox.
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In 1972, three scientists from MIT created a computer model that analyzed global resource consumption and production. Their results shocked the world and created stirring conversation about global 'overshoot,' or resource use beyond the carrying capacity of the planet. Now, preeminent environmental scientists Donnella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and Dennis Meadows have teamed up again to update and expand their original findings in The Limits to Growth: The 30 Year Global Update . Meadows, Randers, and Meadows are international environmental leaders recognized for their groundbreaking research into early signs of wear on the planet. Citing climate change as the most tangible example of our current overshoot, the scientists now provide us with an updated scenario and a plan to reduce our needs to meet the carrying capacity of the planet. Over the past three decades, population growth and global warming have forged on with a striking semblance to the scenarios laid out by the World3 computer model in the original Limits to Growth . While Meadows, Randers, and Meadows do not make a practice of predicting future environmental degradation, they offer an analysis of present and future tre
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- Author
- Donella H. Meadows;Jorgen Randers;Dennis Meadows
- Publisher
- Earthscan Publications Ltd
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781844071449
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Political Science, Fiction, Science
- Rating
- 4.18 / 5 (25 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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