S7 E9: At the Tipping Point
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Controlling Growth
- Jay Forrester explained to Donella Meadows why humans can't keep pushing back limits like resource availability or pollution while still aiming for indefinite economic growth on a finite planet.
- Increasing system complexity creates new problems, hindering solutions to the main issue.
- The core problem is controlling and stabilizing growth before encountering limits.
- Humanity must choose its own limits or let nature impose them.
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