There's been very little concrete response to your descriptions of overshoot and prescriptions for avoid it. How much do you think that this is attributable to ignorance or the education system, and how much to leaders, politicians, business people wishing to avoid the status risks that comes from speaking uncomfortable truths? I can't imagine how some one with your point of view is ever going to be able honestly to speak a message that will make your blog colleagues audience feel happy. All those things are important, but there are other things at work. You know, we have, we are mathin a large set of institutions, corporate and governmental institutions led by people who rose to the top by doing certain things. And
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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