The Limits to Growth vindicated 36 years later

In 1972, when I was 19, the book The Limits to Growth was a hippie bible. Of course, all the straight people said we were mad doomsayers.

This article says that Australian research has shown that the book was basically correct and its general projections are coming true.

Dr Graham Turner of CSIRO "said projections relating to population, food and industrial production, pollution and consumption of non-renewable natural resources between 1970 and 2000 were broadly accurate.

"'Unless (The Limits of Growth) is invalidated by other scientific research, the data comparison presented here lends support to the conclusion that the global system is on an unsustainable trajectory,' he said."

See Dr Turner's 'A Comparison of "The Limits to Growth" with Thirty Years of Reality' (PDF file)

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