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100	1		_92654 _aMeadows, Donella H.
245	1	4	_aThe limits to growth : _bthe 30-year update / _cDonella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and Dennis Meadows.
260			_aWhite River Junction, Vermont : _bChelsea Green Publishing Company, _c2004.
300			_axxii, 338 p. : _bill. b&w ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aCh. 1. Overshoot -- Ch. 2. The driving force: exponential growth -- Ch. 3. The limits: sources and sinks -- Ch. 4. World3: the dynamics of growth in a finite world -- Ch. 5. Back from beyond the limits: the ozone story -- Ch. 6. Technology, markets, and overshoot -- Ch. 7. Transitions to a sustainable system -- Ch. 8. Tools for the transition to sustainability -- Appendices: 1. Changes from world3 to world3-03 -- 2. Indicators of human welfare and ecological footprint.
520			_aIn 1972, three scientists from MIT created a computer model that analyzed global resource consumption and production. Their results shocked the world and created a stirring conversation about global 'overshoot,' or resource use beyond the carrying capacity of the planet. Now, preeminent environmental scientists Donnella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and Dennis Meadows have teamed up again to update and expand their original findings in The Limits to Growth: The 30 Year Global Update. Meadows, Randers, and Meadows are international environmental leaders recognized for their groundbreaking research into early signs of wear on the planet. Citing climate change as the most tangible example of our current overshoot, the scientists now provide us with an updated scenario and a plan to reduce our needs to meet the carrying capacity of the planet. Over the past three decades, population growth and global warming have forged on with a striking semblance to the scenarios laid out by the World3 computer model in the original Limits to Growth. While Meadows, Randers, and Meadows do not make a practice of predicting future environmental degradation, they offer an analysis of present and future trends in resource use, and assess a variety of possible outcomes. In many ways, the message contained in Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update is a warning. Overshoot cannot be sustained without collapse. But, as the authors are careful to point out, there is reason to believe that humanity can still reverse some of its damage to Earth if it takes appropriate measures to reduce inefficiency and waste. Written in refreshingly accessible prose, Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update is a long anticipated revival of some of the original voices in the growing chorus of sustainability. Limits to Growth: The 30 Year Update is a work of stunning intelligence that will expose for humanity the hazy but critical line between human growth and human development.
650		0	_9646 _aEconomic development _xEnvironmental aspects
650		0	_92656 _aPollution _xEconomic aspects
650		0	_9275 _aSustainable development
700	1		_4aut _92657 _aRanders, Jorgen
700	1		_4aut _92658 _aMeadows, Dennis L.
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