The Limits to Growth Author:Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jorgen Randers, William W. Behrens III THE PRICE OF PROGRESS — When each of us as an individual decides to buy something, we first consider the price. Yet society at large has long bought the idea of continual growth in population and production without adding up the final reckoning. — Now a team of M.I.T. scients, with the aid of a giant computer, has completed a study of the future ... more »if present growth continues. Their inescapable conclusions are beyond anyone's grimmest fears. Possibly within as little as 70 years, our social and economic system will collapse unless drastic changes are made very soon.
The Limits to Growth has made headlines the world over. Its shock waves have caused our most cherished assumptions to come crashing down. It is a book that we can ignore only at our peril.
"If this book doesn't blow everybondy's mind who can read without moving his lips, then the earth is kaput."
---Robert C. Townsend, author of Up the Organization« less