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Discuss in brief the main thesis in “Limits to Growth” (1972) and also provide a critique of the same.

  • UPSC 2018
  • Economic Geography

The Limits to Growth (1972), written by Donella and Dennis Meadows, Jorgen Randers and William Behrens for the Club of Rome (founded 1968), was the most influential early computer-simulated global forecast of resource-constrained growth.

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  • The World3 Model: Five Interacting Variables
  • The Central Thesis: Exponential Growth against Linear Remedies
  • The Cornucopian Rebuttal and the Failure on Resources
  • Methodological Critique: A World Without Regions or Prices
  • The Equity Charge and the Partial Vindication

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