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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TABLES page | 16 |
FIGURES FIGURE 1 Human Perspectives page | 19 |
The Nature of Exponential Growth page | 25 |
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amount arable land assumption average lifetime basic behavior modes birth control CALIFORNIA/RIVERSIDE chromium Club of Rome collapse cost death rate decrease delays depletion depreciation desired birth rate doubling dynamic earth economic growth energy environment equilibrium exponential growth exponentially increasing factors feedback loop structure fertility figure 35 food per capita food production fossil fuels fraction future global GNP per capita graph Green Revolution growth rate hectares human indicates industrial capital industrial output investment rate known reserves limits to growth mercury million mortality nations negative feedback loop nomic nonrenewable resources output per capita percent policies population and capital population and industrial population growth positive feedback loop present problems rate of growth relationship resource consumption resource reserves rise SERVICE CAPITAL services per capita shown in figure social society SOURCE static reserve index tion USSR variables wastes world average world model world population world system