Via Janet Eaton: The Guardian article below reviews new Australian research showing that the highly significant 1972 Limits to Growth report got it right. The results show that the world is tracking pretty closely to the Limits to Growth “business-as-usual” scenario. The research for the original Limits to Growth report was carried out by Donella and Dennis Meadows and a team of systems researchers working under the aegis of The Club of Rome. They were discredited and pilloried by the establishment for daring to report results contrary to Capitalisms core belief that growth is infinite. Even though they were off on the timing of their predictions a 2004 - 30 Year Update of Limits to Growth demonstrated that the world was in a potentially dangerous overshoot situation wherein the Earths resources were being used up without replenishing its supplies, the consequences of which could be catastrophic. The trio of authors of the 2004 Update, including Donella Meadows concluded: We... believe that if a profound correction is not made soon, a crash of some sort is certain. And it will occur within the lifetimes of many who are alive today. The Melbourne study considers that the first stages of decline may already have started and the authors of the article, who are also the primary researchers of the Melbourne University Sustainable Society Institute study conclude that their findings should sound an alarm bell. This research is not only vindication for the Meadows et al but also confirmation for the many researchers, scientists and experts warning about collapse and calling for planned Degrowth, ecological economics, a new economic agenda, and other alternatives to the global corporate economic growth model. JME
Posted on: Wed, 03 Sep 2014 19:19:27 +0000
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