Limits: To Growth

The report's primary conclusion was that if "business as usual" growth trends continued without significant change, the earth's carrying capacity would be exceeded, leading to a sudden and uncontrollable decline in population and industrial capacity sometime in the . The Limits to Growth - Club of Rome

Using the computer simulation model, the study analyzed the interactions between five major global factors: population, industrialization, pollution, food production, and non-renewable resource depletion. Key Findings and Scenarios Limits to Growth

(LTG) is a landmark 1972 report commissioned by the Club of Rome and authored by a team of MIT researchers led by Donella Meadows, Dennis Meadows, Jørgen Randers, and William W. Behrens III. The report's primary conclusion was that if "business