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This is a book about rapid population growth and its environmental and societal impacts; about exponential mathematics and delayed feedbacks, and about the dangers of overshoot and collapse that confront humanity and civilization today. Sample sentences: "this book is about overshoot..." -- "human society has overshot its limits, for the same reasons that other overshoots occur. Changes are too fast. Signals are late, incomplete, distorted, ignored, or denied. Momentum is great. Responses are slow..." -- "we also believe that if a correction is not made, a collapse of some sort is not only possible but certain, and that it could occur within the lifetimes of many who are alive today...
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Sustainable development, Développement durable, Economische groei, Aspect économique, Environmental aspects of Pollution, Nouvel ordre économique international, Milieueconomie, Bevolking, Population, Sustainable agriculture, Environmental aspects, Economic forecasting, Mondialisation, Pollution, Economic aspects of Pollution, Grenzen des Wachstums, Environmental aspects of Economic development, Développement économique, Economic development, Economic aspects of Population, Wereldondergang, Economic aspects, Ecology, Economic development--environmental aspects, Population--economic aspects, Pollution--economic aspects, Hd75.6 .m43 1992bShowing 6 featured editions. View all 6 editions?
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Beyond the Limits: Confronting Global Collapse, Envisioning a Sustainable Future
August 1993, Chelsea Green Publishing Company
Paperback
in English
0930031628 9780930031626
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Beyond the Limits: Confronting global collapse - envisioning a sustainable future
1992, Chelsea Green Publishing Company
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Beyond the limits: global collapse or a sustainable future
1992, Earthscan Publications
in English
1853831301 9781853831300
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Beyond the limits: confronting global collapse, envisioning a sustainable future
1992, McClelland and Stewart
in English
077105680X 9780771056802
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Beyond the limits: confronting global collapse, envisioning a sustainable future
1992, Chelsea Green Pub. Co.
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0930031555 9780930031558
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""Twenty years ago we wrote a book called The Limits to Growth. It described the prospects for growth in the human population and the global economy during the coming century" (from the preface) -- From chapter four: "Any population-economy-environment system that has feedback delays and slow physical responses, that has thresholds and erosive mechanisms, is literally unmanageable. No matter how brilliant its technologies, no matter how efficient its economy, no matter how wise is decision makers, it simply can't steer itself away from hazards unless it tests its limits very, very slowly...""
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This is a book about human population growth, carrying capacities, delayed feedbacks, our environmental impacts, and the possibilities of overshoot and collapse. -- Excerpt: "Any population-economy-environment system that has feedback delays and slow physical responses, that has thresholds and erosive mechanisms, is literally unmanageable. No matter how brilliant its technologies, no matter how efficient its economy, no matter how wise its decision makers, it simply can't steer itself away from hazards unless it tests its limits very, very slowly."
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