Would it have mattered if limits to growth, the study that you did came out 19 20 or 19 70 or 20 22? No, of course, our forecast would have been different. The main relationships in the model were formulated in an attempt to capture some sort of invarienta social economic, physical principles. But more important, i think, is an inver an social factor. For literally as far as we have any record of history, there have been a stratification of society into those who have power and, in most cases, resources,. In those who have it always resist change.
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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