S7 E9: At the Tipping Point
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Donella Meadows Joins "The Limits to Growth" Project
- Jay Forrester declined to lead the Club of Rome's project after they offered funding based on his world system model.
- Dennis Meadows, who worked with Forrester, proposed to use the prototype and create scenarios.
- Donella Meadows gave up her Harvard Fellowship to work on the project unpaid to avoid nepotism accusations.
- The Club of Rome accepted Dennis's proposal, and they began the first major attempt to model the world system.
- Their job was to refine the model with real-world data, consulting various experts on many topics.
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