Could there be a game modelled on the corpe principles of limits to growth that would set some light bulbs off in people's minds? Well, now youhah, you've asked three different questions. Could you build a model that incorporates some of the basic relationships of world three? Yes, you could do that. It's called stratagem, and it was used widely. The world bank bought a bunch of em for use in training people how to develop countries. Does it set off light balbs? Yes, some light bulbs in some people. Did it make actual change? No, i don't think so. And for the reasons i mentioned before, a few people with
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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