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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... energy . The process of economic development is in effect the process of utilizing more energy to increase the productivity and efficiency of human labor , In fact , one of the best indications of the wealth of a human population is the ...
... energy . The process of economic development is in effect the process of utilizing more energy to increase the productivity and efficiency of human labor , In fact , one of the best indications of the wealth of a human population is the ...
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... energy use , which is independent of the fuel source . By the laws of thermo- dynamics , essentially all of the energy used by man must ultimately be dissipated as heat . If the energy source is some- thing other than incident solar energy ...
... energy use , which is independent of the fuel source . By the laws of thermo- dynamics , essentially all of the energy used by man must ultimately be dissipated as heat . If the energy source is some- thing other than incident solar energy ...
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... energy 5 % of absorbed solar energy electric power and waste heat ( 80 % of capacity ) residential and commercial ( gas and oil ) ( 60 % of 50 capacity ) automobiles ( 14 - hour average ) 0 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 Waste heat released ...
... energy 5 % of absorbed solar energy electric power and waste heat ( 80 % of capacity ) residential and commercial ( gas and oil ) ( 60 % of 50 capacity ) automobiles ( 14 - hour average ) 0 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 Waste heat released ...
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