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Bezig met laden... Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update (2004)door Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jørgen Randers
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Everyone with children or grandchildren should read this book, a thirty year update to the original Limits to Growth, which suggested that the global population was using the planet's resources far faster than they could be replaced. Thirty years ago their first book was largely ignored, and in this edition, published in 2004, they found the situation far more dire. There is plenty of proof to back up their statements, but the science is presented in a very readable manner. Curious about what the authors thought now, ten more years later, I found an interview with one, Dennis Meadows. He has dropped out of the field, discouraged, and now believes there is no hope for recovery at all. If you want to get an idea of what the next forty years are likely to bring to humanity, read this book. This update is an outstanding reference on both sustainability and an insight on human behavior. The authors suggest we are going into a third revolution, which he calls the sustainability revolution. He summaries the two previous revolutions, agricultural and industrial, then suggests our economic models today are still based on those developed for the industrial revolution. He shows by numerous examples that our economic rules are out of date and require replacing. The new economic models will have to put value on more than just money, more than just income, but also the negative value of resources lost or spent, or pollution generated. he also introduces the "happiness factor" which is more prevalent in European western culture than American western culture. He shows that climate change is just a symptom of the bigger issue, overshoot of human population with the earth's renewable resources, and its ability to absorb pollution. There are many fine points he discusses, such as balancing exponential human growth with linear food output increases, the time lag between controlling CO2 and the dissipation of CO2 from the atmosphere. I recommend this book for a reference frame of where global economies and culture will shift over the remainder of this century. An update to the 1972 edition, which used early computer modeling techniques and methodology called Systems Dynamics. Many were upset by the forecast was that there would be a global collapse in the mid-21st century. Others ignored the forecast, figuring new technologies would be developed to "save us". This edition has an optional CD-ROM that provides the complete World3 model, which you can run on a PC or Macintosh computer to see the results. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
[This book] brings data on overshoot and global ecological collapse to the present moment. It provides a short course in the World3 computer model, types of growth, and the various kinds of over-shoot likely to occur in the current century. While it remains to be seen whether public policy will respond effectively and in time to problems such as climate change, this book makes compellingly clear the vital need for a sustainability revolution.-Dust jacket. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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