The Limits to Growth: A Report for the Club of Rome's Project on the Predicament of Mankind, Part 1New York: Universe Books, [1972]. |
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... shown by solid and causal relationships by broken arrows tangles arrows Clouds model behavior . represent sources or sinks that are not important to the The relationships shown in figures 24 and 25 are typical of the many interlocking ...
... shown by solid and causal relationships by broken arrows tangles arrows Clouds model behavior . represent sources or sinks that are not important to the The relationships shown in figures 24 and 25 are typical of the many interlocking ...
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... shown by the history of US consumption of steel and copper plotted in figure 30. As the average indi- vidual income has grown , the resource usage in both cases has risen , at first steeply and then less steeply . The final plateau ...
... shown by the history of US consumption of steel and copper plotted in figure 30. As the average indi- vidual income has grown , the resource usage in both cases has risen , at first steeply and then less steeply . The final plateau ...
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... figure 44 are prevented . Population and capital reach constant values at a relatively high level of food ... shown in figure 46 . The policies that produced the behavior shown in figure 46 are : 1. Population is stabilized by setting ...
... figure 44 are prevented . Population and capital reach constant values at a relatively high level of food ... shown in figure 46 . The policies that produced the behavior shown in figure 46 are : 1. Population is stabilized by setting ...
Contents
TABLES page | 16 |
FIGURES FIGURE 1 Human Perspectives page | 19 |
The Nature of Exponential Growth page | 25 |
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agricultural capital amount arable land assumption average lifetime basic behavior modes billion birth control birth rate capital growth chromium Club of Rome collapse constant cost death rate decrease delays depreciation rate desired birth rate desired family doubling dynamic earth economic growth energy environment exponential growth exponentially increasing factors fertility figure 35 food per capita food production future global equilibrium GNP per capita goal graph Green Revolution growth rate hectares income indicate industrial capital industrial output known reserves limits to growth mankind mortality nations negative feedback loop nonrenewable resources output per capita overshoot percent policies pollution control population and capital population and industrial population growth positive feedback loop present problems recycling relationship resource consumption resource reserves result rise services per capita shown in figure side-effects social SOURCE stability tion USSR wastes whales world average world model world population world system