[PDF] Limits To Growth And Models Of Doom eBook

Author : H. S. D. Cole
Publisher : Universe Pub
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 18,40 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Développement économique - Modèles mathématiques
ISBN : 9780876639054

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Scrutinizes the technical aspects and ideological background of the MIT world models on the future of mankind

Author : Donella H. Meadows
Publisher : Universe Pub
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,90 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Economic development.
ISBN : 9780876632222

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Examines the factors which limit human economic and population growth and outlines the steps necessary for achieving a balance between population and production. Bibliogs

Author : Ugo Bardi
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 13,6 MB
Release : 2011-05-27
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1441994165

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“The Limits to Growth” (Meadows, 1972) generated unprecedented controversy with its predictions of the eventual collapse of the world's economies. First hailed as a great advance in science, “The Limits to Growth” was subsequently rejected and demonized. However, with many national economies now at risk and global peak oil apparently a reality, the methods, scenarios, and predictions of “The Limits to Growth” are in great need of reappraisal. In The Limits to Growth Revisited, Ugo Bardi examines both the science and the polemics surrounding this work, and in particular the reactions of economists that marginalized its methods and conclusions for more than 30 years. “The Limits to Growth” was a milestone in attempts to model the future of our society, and it is vital today for both scientists and policy makers to understand its scientific basis, current relevance, and the social and political mechanisms that led to its rejection. Bardi also addresses the all-important question of whether the methods and approaches of “The Limits to Growth” can contribute to an understanding of what happened to the global economy in the Great Recession and where we are headed from there.

Author : Donella H. Meadows
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing Company
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 45,86 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Nature
ISBN :

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A 30 year update to the ground-breaking environmental classic, "Limits to Growth.

Author : Kerryn Higgs
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 15,63 MB
Release : 2016-09-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 0262529696

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The story behind the reckless promotion of economic growth despite its disastrous consequences for life on the planet. The notion of ever-expanding economic growth has been promoted so relentlessly that “growth” is now entrenched as the natural objective of collective human effort. The public has been convinced that growth is the natural solution to virtually all social problems—poverty, debt, unemployment, and even the environmental degradation caused by the determined pursuit of growth. Meanwhile, warnings by scientists that we live on a finite planet that cannot sustain infinite economic expansion are ignored or even scorned. In Collision Course, Kerryn Higgs examines how society's commitment to growth has marginalized scientific findings on the limits of growth, casting them as bogus predictions of imminent doom. Higgs tells how in 1972, The Limits to Growth—written by MIT researchers Donella Meadows, Dennis Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and William Behrens III—found that unimpeded economic growth was likely to collide with the realities of a finite planet within a century. Although the book's arguments received positive responses initially, before long the dominant narrative of growth as panacea took over. Higgs explores the resistance to ideas about limits, tracing the propagandizing of “free enterprise,” the elevation of growth as the central objective of policy makers, the celebration of “the magic of the market,” and the ever-widening influence of corporate-funded think tanks—a parallel academic universe dedicated to the dissemination of neoliberal principles and to the denial of health and environmental dangers from the effects of tobacco to global warming. More than forty years after The Limits to Growth, the idea that growth is essential continues to hold sway, despite the mounting evidence of its costs—climate destabilization, pollution, intensification of gross global inequalities, and depletion of the resources on which the modern economic edifice depends.