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The book, or the original Club of Rome report, was highlighted by Noelle King as a foundational and widely read text critical to the degrowth movement. King explained that the 1970s work used computer modeling to warn that continued exponential growth would lead to resource depletion and societal collapse. It was presented as a critical historical warning that the world was in an unstable situation and needed to halt growth to prevent catastrophe.
Episode: Blame Capitalism: Degrowing pains
This report, originating from the Club of Rome in the early 1970s, was discussed as a major historical text in the degrowth movement. It used computer modeling to suggest that exponential growth would lead to resource depletion and societal collapse, predicting the world was in an unstable situation.
chief among them a report by an organization called the Club of Rome that is probably to this very day a text on economics that has been read by more people than any other and that is called the Limits to Growth.
The world is in a completely unstable situation and is likely to fall to pieces if it doesn't stop growing.