In 1972, the publication of The Limits to Growth would change the world. Often considered the starting point for global ecological awareness, this report commissioned by the Club of Rome modelled for the first time, thanks to computers, the incompatibility between the exponential dynamics of economic and demographic growth of industrial societies and the finiteness of the earth’s resources. Dennis Meadows, the director of this task force at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), was then 30 years old. Since then, he has been calling out about a coming ecological collapse. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the “Meadows Report”, the 79-year-old professor emeritus at the University of New Hampshire gives us his lucid vision of the state of the world, now and in the future.
Dennis Meadows “We are entering a period of exploding crises”
Attribution: Art Hunter