The Limits to Growth
The Club of Rome's 1972 report The Limits to Growth argued that infinite economic expansion on a finite planet is not possible, a warning referenced twice in this context.
The Club of Rome's 1972 report, cited twice: first as "publishing 'The Limits to Growth,' daring to suggest that infinite economic expansion on a finite planet might just be impossible", and again later: "in 'The Limits to Growth' the alarm sounded about infinite expansion."
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- Club of Rome · both placed under sec-009
- First Earth Day · both placed under sec-009
- Founding of Greenpeace · both placed under sec-009
- Santa Barbara oil spill (1969) · both placed under sec-009
- "Brown Economy" (Pavan Sukhdev) · discussed together in section 011
- Brundtland Report ("Our Common Future") · discussed together in section 011
- Design for the Real World (book by Victor Papanek) · discussed together in section 046
- Dymaxion House and Dymaxion Car (Buckminster Fuller) · discussed together in section 046
- Geodesic Dome (Buckminster Fuller) · discussed together in section 046
- Green Economy · discussed together in section 011
- Interactive Planning (Russell Ackoff) · discussed together in section 046
- "Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System" (essay by Donella Meadows) · discussed together in section 046
- Systems Dynamics (Jay Forrester, MIT) · discussed together in section 046
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- Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change · discussed together in section 046
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- Sustainability
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- Chapter 1, section 009 · Flickers of Awakening: Have We Learned the Lessons?
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