Limit to growth

Author: Meadows
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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
Features: Earth is the only planet currently sustaining human life, but human development has always brought endless torment and irreparable damage to the land that nourishes and nurtures us. Global warming, rising sea levels, population explosion, land desertification—all these signs indicate that humans are paying the price for their actions. The limits to growth were once a distant future, but today they are widespread. The concept of collapse was once deemed unimaginable, but today it has entered public discourse. This book can be said to show for the first time the consequences of endlessly pursuing growth on a finite planet. This book that shocked the world and became a global bestseller once again sounds the alarm on human destruction of the climate, water quality, fish, forests, and other endangered resources, armed with new data from the past 30 years. In 1972, four young scientists from MIT wrote The Limits to Growth, showing for the first time the consequences of endlessly pursuing growth on a finite planet. This book shocked the world and became a global bestseller. Today, armed with new data from the past 30 years, the authors once again sound the alarm on human destruction of the climate, water quality, fish, forests, and other endangered resources. The limits to growth were once a distant future, but today they are widespread. The concept of collapse was once deemed unimaginable, but today it has entered public discourse.