Update to limits to growth: Comparing the World3 model with empirical data
@article{Herrington2020UpdateTL, title={Update to limits to growth: Comparing the World3 model with empirical data}, author={Gaya Herrington}, journal={Journal of Industrial Ecology}, year={2020}, volume={25}, pages={614 - 626} }
In the 1972 bestseller Limits to Growth (LtG), the authors concluded that, if global society kept pursuing economic growth, it would experience a decline in food production, industrial output, and ultimately population, within this century. The LtG authors used a system dynamics model to study interactions between global variables, varying model assumptions to generate different scenarios. Previous empirical‐data comparisons since then by Turner showed closest alignment with a scenario that…
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