Sentences with phrase «limit to growth»

I've always taken the perspective that we need to get to a sustainable society — ever since reading Limits to Growth back in the»70s.

In the early 1970s a book called Limits to Growth was published.

Their goal is to align capital markets with natural ecological limits to growth.

Don't talk to us about limits to growth, they said, when what we need is to grow as the rich countries have grown.

Should it really be this high when we consider limits to growth, ecological damage and ecological footprint analysis?

Collective buy - in was determined by what leaders could offer you, but limited to growth within your particular role.

The basic argument of the twelve economists is that there are limits to growth which have now been reached on a global scale.

I think too few appreciate various limits to growth.

Their book, Limits to Growth did two major things both removing understanding and creating a false sense of authority and accuracy.

When I was about 14 I read limits to growth and future shock.

We are realizing that there are ecological limits to growth.

This was a continuation of the theme of Limits to Growth developed by the Club of Rome.

There have been twenty or so projects of global modeling since the report of the Club of Rome on limits to growth in 1972.

which focuses on limits to growth in the fisheries space.

The first major effort to understand the needed changes was made by the Club of Rome in its report Limits to Growth (Meadows, et al. 1972).

«The discounters won't totally rule the world; I can see limits to their growth and there are lessons to be learned from France, where the discounters are in decline,» Mr Garner told Fairfax Media ahead of the AFGC conference on Thursday.

Peak Oil was created to imply we were running out of the resource — as the COR Limits to Growth predicted.

The most recent flurry of alarmism over population growth was a key piece of the ideas of the Club of Rome and the now discredited book Limits to Growth.

The reality check for the «carbon bubble» proponents is that global energy demands still need to be met and that there are limits to the growth rate of fossil energy substitutes, even as climate goals come under pressure.

Hunter Lovins, The Motivator: There were various efforts to discredit Limits to Growth and to discredit Paul Ehrlich's work and indeed much of what they said would come to pass has not come to pass.

Doyle took up a question that had concerned researchers since the birth of control theory in the 1930s and»40s: Were there any fundamental limits to the growth of robustness?

Limits to Growth co-author Dennis Meadows, stated in his letter (21 January, p 28): «Humanity's use of energy and materials...

Nicholas Mangan: Limits to Growth continues MUMA's much anticipated and celebrated annual survey exhibition series that presents the practices of Australia's most exciting and innovative mid-career artists.

The effect of the radical environmental movement's efforts to reduce fossil fuel production and use is to try to convince governments to create limits to growth where none currently exist other than human ingenuity.

After surveying the debate, triggered twenty years ago by Limits to Growth, Eduard Pestel (1989), who was much involved in global modeling, said that the most important result was that it drove into the heads of more and more people the urgent need for long - term, anticipatory thinking and learning at a time of precipitous change and «opened our hearts and minds to the urgent necessity of a radical change of values, at present so dominated by material aspirations» (p. 160).

Meadows said Thursday he would like a measure that would index the debt limit to growth in the economy; another conservative leader, Rep. Mark Walker (N.C.) of the Republican Study Committee, said this week that he would support efforts to constrain Medicaid spending.

In his important new book, Social Limits to Growth (Harvard University...

So there was a sense of outrage when the Club of Rome produced its report entitled Limits to Growth (Meadows et al. 1972), which gave reasons for supposing that the goal of economic growth in material goods had limits, despite the possibilities of progress of science and technology in the future.

In an era of changing climate and sinking economies, Malthusian limits to growth are back — and squeezing us painfully.

Specifically, the company looks to buy and / or build in areas with regional populations of at least 1 million people and with natural or artificial limits to growth, such as local regulations on development and / or geography that puts limits the available supply of residential housing.

Nicholas Mangan, Installation view Limits to Growth, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 2017, Photo: Frank Sperling

Nicholas Mangan, Installationsansicht Limits to Growth, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, 2017, Foto: Frank Sperling

The show lends its title from the work Limits to Growth (2016), which was produced for the touch and which explores the relationship between two monetary currencies: Rai, large stone coins from the Micronesian island of Yap, and Bitcoin, a digital currency allegedly invented by Satoshi Nakamoto in 2008.

For years I have pressed my local governments to consider the very real limits to growth, with little success notwithstanding the clear degradation of the natural habitat and human quality of life in the region.

We can recognize the finite nature of the physical earth system, understand that there is a large anthropogenic impact in many facets of it, and even try to mitigate this impact, all without also needing to believe in finite limits to the growth of knowledge and technology.

It was a major theme of the Club of Rome driven by studies like Limits to Growth and Paul Ehrlich's book The Population Bomb.