I agree generally with your views and concerns, but that doesn't mean i think the models are blind to energy a. The factors you mentioned, g p, pcapa, remember, those are fed in exogenously. It's the process which is energy blind. If you were to feed into those models more realistic assumptions, you would get different results. You would get results that would not be politically palatable. Well, axy we're already getting results that are not politically palatable,. But even the inputs would not be political pallable. So called turning points that you mentioned, one example of methane emissions, all sorts of political flags.
On this episode, we meet with Professor Emeritus of Systems Management and author, Dennis Meadows.
Meadows revisits Limits to Growth 50 years after it was published. Looking back, how does Meadows view the book? How much of the response to his description of overshoot was based in fear?
Meadows offers advice to current leaders based on the models he developed in Limits to Growth. Why is it important to develop success indicators, and how can they be clearly communicated to the public?
Further, Meadows explores the available leverage points to avoid the worst types of collapse at our current stage of crises.
About Dennis Meadows:
Dennis Meadows is the Emeritus Professor of Systems Management at MIT and the co-author of Limits to Growth and Beyond the Limits.
He has received numerous awards and is the recipient of four honorary doctorates for his contributions to environmental education. He co-authored the pioneering 1972 book The Limits to Growth, which analyzed the long-term consequences of unconstrained resource consumption driven by population and economic growth on a finite planet.
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