Permaculture in New Zealand

Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update, by Donella H. Meadows, Jorgen Randers, Dennis L. Meadows

Published at the start of 2004, this update to the 1972 'Limits To Growth'is surprisingly upbeat and readable.

I say "surprisingly" because the message is that, as a civilisation, we have overshoot the earth's carrying capacity and the most likely outcome is a steep decline.

The book also spends a lot of time discussing the computer program (World3) used to model our possible futures. (BTW, this program is available to download...)

So, for a book promising doom & gloom, and that spells out in some detail the assumptions that underline their predictions, as well as the shortcomings of any computer simulation, it is an upbeat book with a wealth of information.

The original 'LTG' was at the forefront of the whole movement towards a sustainable future. Read it and be the wiser.

Entered by John Rushworth