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The Limits to Growth: A Report for the Club of Rome's Project on the Predicament of Mankind
a book by Donella H. Meadows and Dennis L. Meadows and Jorgen Randers and William W. Behrens III
(our site's book review)
Possibly within as little as 70 years, our social and economic system will collapse like Rome did, says (ironically) the Club of Rome’s Project
“Possibly within as little as 70 years, our social and economic system will collapse unless drastic changes are made very soon.” This is the conclusion of this report, which was done for the Club of Rome’s Project on the Predicament of Mankind. Systems studies at M.I.T. were done on the five factors that determine, and therefore limit—growth on this planet—population, agricultural production, natural resources, industrial production and pollution. The book ends with:
“The last thought we wish to offer is that man must explore himself—his goals and values—as much as the world he seeks to change.” To learn that the old, mechanistic-reductionistic paradigm in which more is better and bigger is better and 'all growth is good' is going to lead the globe to ecological disaster in a century or less is one thing (which points to environmentalism and population control), but to learn that man himself must change the way he thinks is to really get scary. There’s little in our daily experiences—home, education, job—that is likely to change the way people think. (There could be, but there isn’t. But the MC movement will change that, as people become responsible for their actions, their fellow humans and their world. See Why Register for an MC?.)
The globe will experience ecological disaster in a century or less
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