The Limits to Growth model: still prescient 50 years later

Published 2022 – As part of the Earth4All project, collaborators have submitted deep-dive papers to delve further into the issues and solutions needed to transform our economic system and provide an equitable future for all on a finite planet. The World3 model was used by the authors of The Limits to Growth in 1972, and this paper sets to conduct a quantitative comparison between empirical data and the most recent version of World3 scenarios to see if we are still following the business as usual scenario.

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Author: Gaya Herrington

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