The book "The Limits to Growth," published in 1972 by the Club of Rome, used a world model (World3) developed by Donella Meadows and her colleagues at MIT. The study projected various scenarios based on the continuation of present trends in population growth, industrialization, pollution, food production, and resource depletion. Their core finding suggested that, under a business- as-usual scenario, the physical limits to growth on Earth would be reached within the next 100 years, leading to a rapid and uncontrollable decline in population and industrial capacity.
According to Meadows (1972), if the present trends in world population, industrialisation, pollution, food production and resource depletion continue unchanged, the “Limits to Growth” on our planet will be reached in the next
Asked in UPPCS Prelims 1998 · Topic: Environment and Sustainable Development (Basic Concepts of Environment and Ecology)
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