9781931498517-1931498512-Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Global Update

Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Global Update

ISBN-13: 9781931498517
ISBN-10: 1931498512
Edition: 1
Author: Jorgen Randers, Dennis Meadows, Donella Meadows
Publication date: 2004
Publisher: Chelsea Green
Format: Hardcover 368 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781931498517
ISBN-10: 1931498512
Edition: 1
Author: Jorgen Randers, Dennis Meadows, Donella Meadows
Publication date: 2004
Publisher: Chelsea Green
Format: Hardcover 368 pages

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Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Global Update (ISBN-13: 9781931498517 and ISBN-10: 1931498512), written by authors Jorgen Randers, Dennis Meadows, Donella Meadows, was published by Chelsea Green in 2004. With an overall rating of 3.7 stars, it's a notable title among other Environmental Economics (Economics, Conservation, Nature & Ecology) books. You can easily purchase or rent Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Global Update (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Environmental Economics books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $2.11.

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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 trends in resource use, and assess a variety of possible outcomes.
In many ways, the message contained in Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update is a warning. Overshoot cannot be sustained without collapse. But, as the authors are careful to point out, there is reason to believe that humanity can still reverse some of its damage to Earth if it takes appropriate measures to reduce inefficiency and waste.
Written in refreshingly accessible prose, Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update is a long anticipated revival of some of the original voices in the growing chorus of sustainability. Limits to Growth: The 30 Year Update is a work of stunning intelligence that will expose for humanity the hazy but critical line between human growth and human development.

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