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 billion birth control birth rate capital growth chromium Club of Rome collapse constant cost death rate decrease delays desired birth rate doubling dynamic earth economic growth energy environment exponential growth exponentially increasing factors fertility figure 39 figure 46 food per capita food production future global equilibrium GNP per capita goal graph Green Revolution growth rate income indicate industrial capital industrial output known reserves limits to growth mankind mortality nations negative feedback loop nomic nonrenewable resources nuclear power 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 depletion 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