Thursday, June 5, 2014

Scientists vindicate 1972 'Limits to Growth' – urge investment in 'circular economy' | Nafeez Ahmed | Environment | theguardian.com

Scientists vindicate 1972 'Limits to Growth' – urge investment in 'circular economy' | Nafeez Ahmed | Environment | theguardian.com



Although widely ridiculed, recent scientific reviews confirm that the
original report's projections in its 'base scenario' remain robust. In
2008, Australia's federal government scientific research agency CSIRO
concluded that The Limits to Growth forecast of potential "global
ecological and economic collapse coming up in the middle of the 21st
Century" due to convergence of "peak oil, climate change,
and food and water security", is "on-track." Actual current trends in
these areas "resonate strongly with the overshoot and collapse displayed
in the book's 'business-as-usual scenario.'" 

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