Limits to Growth: The 30-year Update
- ISBN-10
- 1844071448
- ISBN-13
- 9781844071449
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Pages
- 338
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2005
- Publisher
- Earthscan / James & James
- Authors
- Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jørgen Randers
Description
Uses computer modelling to demonstrate how unchecked growth on our finite planet will lead the Earth towards ecological disaster unless rapid readjustment of the global economy is made.
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