Is There a Limits to Growth Study?

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Growth in and of itself is fine, that's what it is. My one year old daughter grows, that's fine. At a certain point, you know, if you still keep growing while you're maybe, you're already an adult, that could be, could potentially be bad. It's making it the ultimate goal to always pursue growth at the expense of anything else that’s wrong. We were still below our planetary boundaries. Our ecological footprint on our global ecological footprint was still below the or scurrying capacity. So at that point, we could have had a smooth theoretically possible transition towards that scurries capacity without an necessarily collapse pattern.

On this episode, Nate speaks with econometrician and sustainability researcher Gaya Herrington about her new book, Five Insights for Avoiding Global Collapse, a more in-depth and personal telling of her 2021 review of the Limits to Growth (LTG). More than 50 years after the original LTG report was released, the model trajectories remain both relevant and controversial, as we continue with the ‘business as usual’ scenario, in which the LTG model resulted in collapse. Why are we stuck on this road and how are our growth based economic systems optimized to keep us there? Is it possible to shift our goals to a different path, away from growth, focused on the well-being of all life? Can we plan or mitigate the path to descent?

About Gaya Herrington:

Gaya is a Dutch econometrician, sustainability researcher, and women's rights activist. Gaya holds masters’ degrees in both econometrics and sustainability studies. After becoming disillusioned by initially working in the financial sector Gaya became the executive director of StoereVrouwen, a non-profit Dutch women's movement promoting sustainable economic policies through activism. In 2014, Herrington became the Director of Sustainability Services of KPMG. Most recently, her study on the projections made in the 1972 Limits to Growth report was widely publicized internationally. She is currently Vice President Sustainability Research at Schneider Electric.

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