Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
Author Donella Meadows and Jorgen Randers and Dennis Meadows
- Publish Date: June 01, 2004
- Format: eBook
- Category: Science - Environmental Science
- Publisher: Chelsea Green
- Pages: 368
- US Price: $16.99
- CDN Price: $31.95
- ISBN: 978-1-60358-155-4
Reviews
Briefly, humanity has overshot the limits of what is physically and biologically sustainable. That overshoot WILL lead to the collapse of the planetary environment's ability to support not only our species but much of the rest of the biosphere if we do not act rapidly and effectively to reduce our footprint. These conclusions provide reasons for both optimism and alarm . . . We have a choice: the human experiment, possibly even the biological experiment, that is life on this planet can yet succeed and persist in a sustainable way. But to do so will require our species as whole consciously and deliberately to take immediate, remediating steps, now, seriously and adequately to address the issues we have so far failed to do so effectively. It IS up to us.”—John N. Cooper, for AxisofLogic.com
"In 1972, The Limits to Growth was published as a clarion call to begin changing the way the world worked so we safely made it to 2050-2070. The authors were clear that the path of change needed to begin "now" so we made a course correction within the next 30 years. Sadly, the message they wrote got badly misunderstood and by 30 years later, scores of critiques to the book claimed the authors warned that the world would run out of oil and other scare resources by 1990 or 2000. It is time for the world to re-read Limits to Growth! The message of 1972 is far more real and relevant in 2004 and we wasted a valuable 30 years of action plans by misreading the message of the first book."—Matthew R. Simmons, energy analyst and founder, Simmons & Company International, The world's largest energy investment banking practice