First; I don't want to dilute this thread to simply reading an article because typically there is a lot of spin and I don't think that's fair. I want to link some sources where you can view the info yourself and come to your own conclusions.
"The limits to growth" was a study/paper/book published originally in 1972 by a group called The club of Rome which is defined by Wikipedia as "Club of Rome was founded in 1968 at Accademia dei Lincei in Rome, Italy. It consists of one hundred full members selected from current and former heads of state and government, UN administrators, high-level politicians and government officials, diplomats, scientists, economists, and business leaders from around the globe".
I was stunned to hear about this report recently because it seems important and you would think it would be mentioned in schools, at the very least environmental college level classes but my I never encountered it.
You can access this report via the audiobook on YouTube here:
Or a free pdf by simply googling it. The report has been updated every 10 years but the first report published remains stunningly accurate.
You can download the latest UN report here for free: https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/reports
I would highly recommend giving both a look over at the least.
The main purpose of the book limits to growth was that-- to think about ways that globally humanity will be limited in growing and hence would result in societal stagnation and collapse.
Collapse does not have to be dramatic. It can mean simply that certain parts of the world experience extreme hardship and that there be shortages in developed nations which we already see evidence of as a result of the pandemic. In a sense the pandemic simulated what hardships we might experience in the future. The date that's being given for the worst impact is 2040.
this graph is from the report and I really enjoy it to sort of set up a discussion. It is a representation of the types of hardships and conflicts humans encounter and gives a scale in terms of how and the time span.
I haven't gone through the UN report fully yet, so I'll hold off on discussing that. I don't have questions about this as much as I wanted to know if anybody else had read these documents and what their reflections were. I found them really insightful and hope you will too.
"The limits to growth" was a study/paper/book published originally in 1972 by a group called The club of Rome which is defined by Wikipedia as "Club of Rome was founded in 1968 at Accademia dei Lincei in Rome, Italy. It consists of one hundred full members selected from current and former heads of state and government, UN administrators, high-level politicians and government officials, diplomats, scientists, economists, and business leaders from around the globe".
I was stunned to hear about this report recently because it seems important and you would think it would be mentioned in schools, at the very least environmental college level classes but my I never encountered it.
You can access this report via the audiobook on YouTube here:
Or a free pdf by simply googling it. The report has been updated every 10 years but the first report published remains stunningly accurate.
You can download the latest UN report here for free: https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/reports
I would highly recommend giving both a look over at the least.
The main purpose of the book limits to growth was that-- to think about ways that globally humanity will be limited in growing and hence would result in societal stagnation and collapse.
Collapse does not have to be dramatic. It can mean simply that certain parts of the world experience extreme hardship and that there be shortages in developed nations which we already see evidence of as a result of the pandemic. In a sense the pandemic simulated what hardships we might experience in the future. The date that's being given for the worst impact is 2040.
this graph is from the report and I really enjoy it to sort of set up a discussion. It is a representation of the types of hardships and conflicts humans encounter and gives a scale in terms of how and the time span.I haven't gone through the UN report fully yet, so I'll hold off on discussing that. I don't have questions about this as much as I wanted to know if anybody else had read these documents and what their reflections were. I found them really insightful and hope you will too.
