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Cargando... Los Límites del crecimiento : informe al Club de Roma sobre el predicamento de la humanidad (1972)por Donella H. Meadows, William W. Behrens, III, Dennis L. Meadows, Jørgen Randers
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. The first text in the series appeared as "Limits to growth" in 1972; then the revised edition appeared as "Beyond the limits" in 1992; the current edition of 2004 is a 30-year update. Contents: Overshoot; The driving force - exponential growth; The limits - sources and sinks; World 3 - the dynamics of growth in a finite world; Back from beyond the limits - the ozone story; Technology, markets and overshoot; Transitions to a sustainable system; Tools for the transition to sustainability; Apendices. A scholarly, technical treatise on the problems facing the world in the future. The authors wisely place their predictions about 100 years in the future, avoiding the pitfalls that faced Paul Ehrlich when some of his predictions failed to materialize within the time frame he had predicted. Most lay readers will be lost in the technical language, but there is a great deal of good information that can be used productively, though much of it is out of date now, and needs to be updated. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Un grupo de intelectuales, hombres de empresa y de ciencia de Europa y Norteam rica, a los que se han agregado estudiosos de Asia, frica y Am rica Latina, resolvi en 1968 emprender, con los m todos que la cibern tica y las ciencias sociales son capaces de usar hoy d a. Examen a fondo de las interrelaciones entre crecimiento de la poblaci n, desarrollo industrial y agr cola. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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To take two simple but self-evident pointers.World population grows exponentially, each new generation is an increase on the previous and then that increase is further increased by the next generation. Our economic regulating system depends on increased consumerism, if we stop buying we are in recession, if the fail to buy more than last time, we are in recession. Add that to the increasing population, that has to be fed, more mouths to feed, more food to be produced and they need to buy to survive, so more goods needed to made and the outcome is simple. Seen from space our planet is very finite. We take, extract, from our planet to make stuff and we dump back on/in our planet all the waste stuff that is not needed or not wanted or when it is no longer useful.
This book explores all the myriad reasoning's that resources are being depleted, or increasing means to extend them, delays to record or implement recovery, feedback loops and accumulating evidence that our broadly stable and favourable environment is tipping into a chaotic system which is unlikely to be favourable to humans. Balanced by sketching out mechanisms and our skill sets we could use to defer, or slow this progress towards that tipping point.
If you do nothing else, make sure you do read Chapters 7 and 8 ( )