By Donella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and Dennis Meadows
The following piece is a short synopsis of Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update. The full length book is available at Chelsea Green’s website.
A Synopsis: Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
The signs are everywhere around us:
Sea level has risen 10–20 cm since 1900. Most non-polar glaciers are retreating, and the extent and thickness [...]
A Synopsis: Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
By Donella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and Dennis Meadows
The following piece is a short synopsis of Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update. The full length book is available at Chelsea Green’s website.
A Synopsis: Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update
The signs are everywhere around us:
Sea level has risen 10–20 cm since 1900. Most non-polar glaciers are retreating, and the extent and thickness [...]
Climate Change Hits The Oil Industry
by Elizabeth Sawin
— September 4, 2003 —
Never mind the polar bear, migratory sea birds, and residents of low-lying islands. Climate change is now affecting the oil industry.
Finally. A closed feedback loop in the human-climate system.
The first part of this story is familiar and isn’t a feedback loop at all. It’s a chain of cause and effect that starts with human [...]
We Are Vulnerable but not Powerless
by Elizabeth Sawin
— December 2, 2002 —
A Czech friend of mine sent an email during the recent NATO summit as American fighter jets stood by and riot police filled the streets of Prague. “Sometimes,” she wrote, “I feel as though the world has gone mad.” Her words spoke my own thoughts so clearly it was as though I was reading [...]
We Can’t Afford to “Wait and See” on Climate Change
by Andrew Jones
— July 19, 2002 —
Recent Bush administration statements on climate change just do not add up. Our president and his advisers keep talking about climate as though we can wait for overwhelming signs of trouble and then switch our course in time, but the climate system is notoriously slow to respond to our policies. The Bush administration talks [...]
Hoping For a Big Change in Agriculture
by Hal Hamilton
— May 7, 2002 —
Why do people consistently believe what isn’t true? I’m reading a stream of news about the farm bill just passed by Congress: one more attempt to export and subsidize the farm economy to prosperity after decades of evidence that these dollars flow right on through farmers’ pockets.
I’m also reading data from a survey of [...]
