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Where Are We Going, Really? (Part 3)
Tipping Point: The True Story of "The Limits to Growth"
The Importance of Sustainability
They knew that humanity had overstepped some biophysical limits. What shot them was how economic growth, rather than helping steer the world to a safer path, had taken it further towards the cliff edge. Humanity was still tracking dangerously close to the scenario in which collapse takes place around the middle of the 21st century. And yet there were still signs of hope. Population growth and richer nations, the world's largest consumers, had fallen faster than in their standard run. Advances in energy efficiency had progressed further than expected. Eight or nine billion people could be supported on this planet sustainably below the limits, with no hunger, with no poverty. If we could immediately act to stem pollution,
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