The Limits to Growth: A Report to The Club of Rome (1972)

By D. Meadows, Dennis l. Meadows, J. Randers, W. Behrens, Eduard Pestel. 2007

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Diet shifts towards meat and the effects on cereal use: can we feed the animals in 2030? (2005, background): “Almost 30 years ago, the Club of Rome issued in its bLimits to growthQ (Meadows, 1972) the warning that, if population and consumption continued to increase at exponential rates of any significance, the carrying capacity limit of the earth”
A systematic review of the evidence on decoupling of GDP, resource use and GHG emissions, part II: synthesizing the insights (2020, background): “At least since the publication of the seminal ‘Limits to growth’ report (Meadows et al 1972), a debate is ongoing between scholars who hold that unlimited economic growth is impossible on a finite planet, and other scholars who believe that human ingenuity will eventually overcome all potential…”
Equity and sustainability in the Anthropocene: a social–ecological systems perspective on their intertwined futures (2018, background): “The terms ‘sustainability’ and ‘sustainable development’ have been in use since the 1970s [20] with increasing focus in policy circles since the Brundtland Commission [21] and the World Summit on Sustainable Development [22], recently becoming recognized as an interdisciplinary research discipline: ”
Does financial development influence renewable energy consumption to achieve carbon neutrality in the USA (2021, background): “This traces back to the classic debate on Limits to Growth initiated by the Club of Rome economists (Meadows et al. 1972).”
Estimating long-term global supply costs for low-carbon hydrogen (2021, background): “First studies on hydrogen energy were conducted in the 1970s (Veziroglu et al., 1976), as a response to the first signs of impending environmental disruption, exhaustion of hydrocarbon fuels (Meadows et al., 1972), and a global energy crisis (Goltsov, 2001).”
How economic growth, renewable electricity and natural resources contribute to CO2 emissions? (2018, background): “Other studies consider that, in the early stages of environmental movement, natural resource availability could be compatible with sustained economic growth (Meadows et al., 1972).”