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Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update

Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update

by Donella H. Meadows

Published for the first time: 5/27/2004

338 pages, Paperback

Genres: Sustainability, Ecology, Economics, Environment, Science, Politics, Nonfiction

In 1972 four young scientists at MIT wrote The Limits to Growth, which shocked theworld and became an international best-seller. Using the World3 computer model,the authors looked toward the future, for the first time showing the consequences ofunchecked growth on a finite planet. Now, armed with 30 additional years of data,these authors sound the alarm on humanity’s devastating effects on climate, waterquality, fisheries, forests, and other imperiled resources.

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