I was naive when i directed the limits to growth project in my late twenties. I had a very, very, very naive understanding about how things work. And i am sure that i imagined our work would have some influence on decision makers. It's, looking back on it, i can see how really unrealistic that was. If i did have the privilege of going back to 19 72 and doing it all over again, i wouldn't change the model that much. Instead of clustering 16 scientists together in a room up on the second floor of an m i t lab, i would have engaged in a process which brought a large number of concerned, more far sighted people together at the early
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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