The Limits to Growth+50 – Articles, podcasts and videos
Below is a selection of items related to The Limits to Growth.
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Podcasts
25 June 2022 Will the world end its addiction to growth? With Club of Rome on the 50th anniversary of the Club of Rome’s warning there’s little sign the world has taken notice Newstatesman (in English)
1 June 2022 Paul Ehrlich on The Limits to Growth Growth Busters (in English)
22 May 2022 50 years of the Meadows Growth Report: Report by Janic Tremblay Radio Canada (in French)
May 2022 The Limits to Growth and Earth4All, Kaj Embren (in English)
5 April 2022 Limits to Growth- more relevant than ever, SRF (in German)
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Articles
10 August 2022 International Observatory: 50 years of the Limits of Growth Estepais (in Spanish)
6 July 2022 The Infamous 1972 Report That Warned of Civilization’s Collapse Wired (in English)
29 June 2022 Why an end to economic growth is inevitable The New Statesman (in English)
6 July 2022 The Infamous 1972 Report That Warned of Civilization’s Collapse Wired (in English)
15 June 2022 Jeffrey D. Sachs and the 50th anniversary of ‘The limits to growth’ Voces Mexico (in Spanish)
2 June 2022: Limits and Beyond: No More Growth Net Zero by 2050 (in English)
2 June 2022 The environment denied. Giafranco Bologna: “We are 50 years late” Repubblica (in Italian)
20 May 2022 Limits and Beyond: The Yawning Gap Net Zero 2050 (in English)
May 2022 In-depth: ‘Limits to Growth’ – 50 years on, what have we learnt? Ends Europe (in English)
18 May 2022 The limits to growth, 50 years later, La Vanguardia (in Spanish)
18 May 2022 Have we reached the Limits to Growth?, Project Syndicate (in English)
27 April 2022 There will be no global collapse but social and localised collapses, Usbek & Rica (in French)
23 March 2022 We have to open possibilities, Rat Für Nachhaltige (in German)
16 March 2022 Are there limits to economic growth? It`s time to call time on a 50-year argument, Nature (in English)
14 March 2022 “Limits of growth” belongs back to the bookshelf, Suddeutsche Zeitung (in German)
13 March 2022 `World One` Club of Rome & the UN Sustainable Development Goals, Bit Chute (in English)
12 March 2022 Jaap Tielbeke reread the Club of Rome report. “I thought, now I`m going to read how the world ends”, Trouw (In Dutch)
2 March 2022 Humanity must finally understand that we only have one earth, Spiegel (in German)
1 March 2022 50 years of “limits of growth”: “50 years of political failure”, Science Austria Press Agency (in German)
1 March 2022 50 years of “limits of growth”: Was the Club of Rome right?, Langenthaler Tagblatt (in German)
1 March 2022 Sobering balance sheet after “50 years limits of growth”, Tiroler Togeszeitung (in German)
1 March 2022 Growth: How can the planet cope? Le Soir (in French)
24 February 2022 The Limits to Growth at 50:From Scenarios to Unfolding Reality, Resilience (in English)
22 February 2022 Dennis Meadows on the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Limits to Growth, Resilience (in English)
16 February 2022 Beyond the limits of growth. Fifty years after the Club of Rome’s primordal warning, De Groener Amsterdammer (In Dutch)
14 February 2022 The Club of Rome receives the German Book Trade Peace Prize, SWR2 (in German)
10 February 2022 Climate crisis, Sandrine Dixson Co-President of The Club of Rome warns what must happen now, reformiert (In German)
16 January 2022 Climate lessons for the 21st Century, De Morgen, Belgium (in Dutch)
16 January 2022 Endless growth: The difficult search for balance, Der Standard, Austria (in German).
November-December 2021 Dire Warning, Dartmouth Alumni Magazine (in English).
Video
Aurelio Peccei Documentary
This documentary commemorates the life of Club of Rome founder, Aurelio Peccei
Final Warning Limits to Growth
This documentary sheds light on the effect that The Limits to Growth has had on public perceptions since it was published in1972.
Last call
Last Call examines the predictions and impact of The Limits to Growth, published five decades ago.
Jorgen Randers. The Limits to Growth (1972) in a 50-year perspective
This presentation was held during the 50th Anniversary Summit of the Club of Rome on 17-18 October 2018 in Rome. It is part of the Keynote Debate: “50 Years of the Club of Rome – How Much Has the World Changed?”
Related Opinions
Sustainability: An evolving subject
14 September 2023 - Yi-Heng Cheng, member of The Club of Rome Executive Committee and Asia Deputy Director of the International Ecological Development Union (EDUI) sits down with Communications Fellow Nonhlanhla Ngwenya to talk sustainability and how the circular...
All we need is futures resilience – The Limits to Growth revisited
06 September 2023 - Humanity’s clock is ticking painfully loud. As never before in the history of human beings, today we face existential risks including the potential of human extinction. Two such risks stand tall: Climate Change and Artificial Intelligence (AI) with...
How to change the paradigm: What we learned from investigating the story of The Limits to Growth
25 July 2023 - Several years ago Vegard Beyer and I met at a summer school organised by The Club of Rome. That is where we first learned about the landmark study it had commissioned: 1972’s The Limits to Growth. The report warned that unfettered economic growth could...
Redefining collapse: Q&A with Ugo Bardi
22 June 2023 - In our first instalment of the Q&A series with authors of the Limits and Beyond, we talked to Ugo Bardi, the co-editor of the book, a member of the Club of Rome and a professor at the University of Florence. Bardi touches on the legacy of The Limits...
Why systemic change is essential for a sustainable future
31 May 2023 - Fifty years have passed since The Club of Rome published The Limits to Growth. The report was a sharp critique of the notion of material growth as eternal and predicted increasing problems as a consequence of rapidly growing populations and economies....
The Club of Rome’s plan for a systems change and a just solar revolution
20 December 2022 - The transition from a fossil fuel-based economy to a clean energy economy is underway. In 2021, wind and solar accounted for 10% of all electricity production in the world, compared to just 5% in 2016.1 Doubling at this pace means wind and solar...
Learning what we already know on the 50th anniversary of The Limits to Growth
12 December 2022 - 50 years after the first report to the Club of Rome, humanity is in dire straits. The financial crisis in 2008, the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine are brutal signals of collapse. They originate in a wider landscape of self-inflicted...
An antidote to climate despair
14 November 2022 - Dire predictions about the impending collapse of civilization have become almost common place. Okay, doomers – enough. Yes, humanity faces existential risks. In the coming decades, billions of people in the world’s poorest economies will be hit the...
Businesses can gain from shift to fairer economic model, if they play active role in system change
27 September 2022 - The world needs to shift to a radically different economic model if it is to avoid stagnation and ensure prosperity for all. Businesses will ultimately benefit from this transition, but they must play an active role in system change if they are to...
Economic growth on a finite planet? Earth4All and the GDP debate
21 September 2022 - Despite its dominance as an indicator of progress, GDP was never intended to measure a society’s overall health. Rather, it was intended to measure society’s economic activity level in monetary terms - as the value of the total output of goods and...
