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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... indicate that in most of the developing countries basic caloric requirements , and particularly protein requirements , are not being supplied ( see figure 8 ) . Furthermore , although total world agricultural production is increasing ...
... indicate that in most of the developing countries basic caloric requirements , and particularly protein requirements , are not being supplied ( see figure 8 ) . Furthermore , although total world agricultural production is increasing ...
Page 63
... indicating the future avail- ability of a resource with a 400 - year static reserve index in the year 1970 , such as chromium . The horizontal axis is time in years ; the vertical axis indicates several quantities , including the amount ...
... indicating the future avail- ability of a resource with a 400 - year static reserve index in the year 1970 , such as chromium . The horizontal axis is time in years ; the vertical axis indicates several quantities , including the amount ...
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... indicate . We firmly believe that the warnings this book con- tains are amply justified , and that the aims and ... indicates that it may be within our reach to provide reasonably large populations with a good material life plus ...
... indicate . We firmly believe that the warnings this book con- tains are amply justified , and that the aims and ... indicates that it may be within our reach to provide reasonably large populations with a good material life plus ...
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 37 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 nuclear power 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