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The Limits To Growth

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Abstract

'If you only read one book ... make this it!' L. Hunter Lovins, co-author of Natural Capitalism 'It is time for the world to re-read Limits to Growth! The message of 1972 is more real and relevant in 2004, and we wasted 30 valuable years of action by misreading the message of the first book' Matthew R. Simmons, founder, Simmons & Company International, the world's largest energy investment banking firm 'If you want to understand what's going on Earth, read it.' Patrick Whitefield, Permaculture In 1972, Limits to Growth shocked the world and forever changed the global agenda by demonstrating that unchecked growth on our finite planet was leading the Earth towards ecological 'overshoot' and pending disaster. The…

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Keywords
  • Industrialisation
  • Population growth
  • Non-renewable resource
  • Population
  • Set (abstract data type)
  • Development economics
  • Economic system
  • Economics
UN Sustainable Development Goals
  • Zero hunger
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