Limits to Growth

In: FP, Heft 133, S. 42-44

Abstract

Proposes reasons why the Club of Rome's Limits to Growth (1972) doomsday predictions have failed. Criticizes the assumption that the Earth has finite resources that will become depleted over time. Technological advances & economic developments that have offered substitutes for Earth's natural resources are cited, as well as the ability to use & locate these resources more efficiently, as major components that were overlooked in the theory. Modern day ideas of limits to growth, ie, global warming, are faulted because they too overlook technological advances that can offer solutions. I. Sharp