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Limits to Growth The 30-Year Global Update

Dennis Meadows

In 1972, three scientists from MIT created a computer model that analyzed global resource consumption and production. Their results shocked the world and created stirring conversation about global 'overshoot,' or resource use beyond the carrying capacity of the planet. Now, preeminent environmental...

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The Joe Rogan Experience

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The Joe Rogan Experience

This book, published in 1972 by The Club of Rome, argued for a society with very limited growth to prevent resource depletion and pollution.

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You know, I think the manifesto that's always very interesting from the other side was this book by the Club of Rome, 1972, the "Limits to Growth", and it's you can't have, we need to head towards a s...

— Episode: #2190 - Peter Thiel

Episode: #2190 - Peter Thiel

This book, published in 1972 by The Club of Rome, argued for a society with very limited growth to prevent resource depletion and pollution.

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You know, I think the manifesto that's always very interesting from the other side was this book by the Club of Rome, 1972, the "Limits to Growth", and it's you can't have, we need to head towards a society in which there's zero percent, there's very limited growth because if you have unlimited growth you're going to run out of resources.

Stuff You Should Know

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Stuff You Should Know

Published in 1972, it presented a pessimistic view of the future, emphasizing resource depletion and overpopulation, and was a stark contrast to Herman Kahn's more optimistic predictions.

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One of the books that came out of the Club of Rome in 1972 was called Limits to Growth by Danella H. Meadows, Dennis Meadows, Juergen Randers, and William Behrens at MIT.

— Episode: Selects: How Futurology Works

Episode: Selects: How Futurology Works

Published in 1972, it presented a pessimistic view of the future, emphasizing resource depletion and overpopulation, and was a stark contrast to Herman Kahn's more optimistic predictions.

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One of the books that came out of the Club of Rome in 1972 was called Limits to Growth by Danella H. Meadows, Dennis Meadows, Juergen Randers, and William Behrens at MIT.

And they had a very dire apocalyptic outlook of the future, as did a lot of other people at the time.

The, yeah, the Limits to Growth book basically saying that it's often miscited as predicting the collapse of civilization due to renewable resource overuse.

Freakonomics Radio

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Freakonomics Radio

It was mentioned as an influential environmental book that followed from William Vogt's work on environmentalism and carrying capacity.

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The Limits to Growth, all these great environmental classics all stem directly from his work.

— Episode: Two (Totally Opposite) Ways to Save the...

Episode: Two (Totally Opposite) Ways to Save the Planet (Ep...

It was mentioned as an influential environmental book that followed from William Vogt's work on environmentalism and carrying capacity.

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The Limits to Growth, all these great environmental classics all stem directly from his work.

Episode: 346. Two (Totally Opposite) Ways to Save the Plane...

It was mentioned alongside other important books of the early environmentalist movement, and is related to the work of William Vogt and his early influence on the environmental movement.

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books like, you know, the Population Bomb and Al Gore's first book, Earth in the Balance, Limits to Growth, all these great environmental classics all stem directly from his work.

The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

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The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast

This book, which came out in the late 1960s, promotes the idea that the world's resources are limited and that we are overusing them, which has led to a number of environmental issues. This was mentioned as one of the early environmental movement publications that influenced later movements.

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And earlier than that, the Paul Ehrlich and limits to growth, this whole notion that the world did not have enough resources to be able to keep up with the population growth that we would ultimately o...

— Episode: 465. Alberta: The Promised Land for Cana...

Episode: 465. Alberta: The Promised Land for Canada’s Futur...

This book, which came out in the late 1960s, promotes the idea that the world's resources are limited and that we are overusing them, which has led to a number of environmental issues. This was mentioned as one of the early environmental movement publications that influenced later movements.

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And earlier than that, the Paul Ehrlich and limits to growth, this whole notion that the world did not have enough resources to be able to keep up with the population growth that we would ultimately outpace our ability to feed ourselves.

Episode: 323. Unsettled: Climate and Science | Dr. Steven K...

It was mentioned as a book from the 1960s that predicted dire consequences for the world's population and resources by the year 2000, which proved inaccurate.

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I remember reading as you probably did the limits to growth right the first book right? Right and the time frame prediction was the year 2000

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

It was mentioned as an old standby book that had been discussed before, and it focused on economic growth, resource usage, and population growth in relation to societal and civilizational decline, published in 1972 with a 30-year update in 2004.

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This was posted by Nafiz Ahmed. This was July of 2021 and it's mentioning an old book. Limits to growth.

— Episode: Listener Mail: Guan Yu, the Tytler Cycle...

Episode: Listener Mail: Guan Yu, the Tytler Cycle, and a Gh...

It was mentioned as an old standby book that had been discussed before, and it focused on economic growth, resource usage, and population growth in relation to societal and civilizational decline, published in 1972 with a 30-year update in 2004.

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This was posted by Nafiz Ahmed. This was July of 2021 and it's mentioning an old book. Limits to growth.

It was about 1970, I want to say. Then they made a 30-year update that was published in 2004.

Episode: Listener Mail: Guan Yu, the Tytler Cycle, and a Gh...

It was mentioned as an old book published in 1972, with a 30-year update released in 2004, that focuses on economic growth and resource usage.

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This was posted by Nafiz Ahmed. This was July of 2021 and it's mentioning an old book. It's an old standby that we like to name check every once in a while here on the show. Limits to Growth.

It was about 1970, I want to say. Then they made a 30-year update that was published in 2004.

Episode: Listener Mail: Guan Yu, the Tytler Cycle, and a Gh...

It was mentioned as an old book from 1972 that focused on economic growth, resource use and population growth, which were used as metrics to judge the health of society, a civilization or even a species.

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This was posted by Nafiz Ahmed. This was July of 2021 and it's mentioning an old book. Limits to Growth. This is a book that came out in 1972. It was about 1970, I want to say. Then they made a 30-year update that was published in 2004.

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