The Limits to Growth (1972), commissioned by the Club of Rome and authored by Donella Meadows et al., used computer modeling to project that exponential economic and population growth would encounter planetary resource limits within the 21st century.
Launched the modern environmental limits discourse; its systems dynamics methodology and findings shaped environmentalism, sustainability, and degrowth movements.
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