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Explain population, resource use and development nexus in the Limits to Growth Model. Why has this model been criticized intensively?

  • UPSC 2023
  • Economic Geography

The Limits to Growth (1972) — Donella and Dennis Meadows, Jorgen Randers, William Behrens for the Club of Rome (1968) — treated population, resources and development as one closed feedback system.

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  • The First Link: Exponential Population, Compounding Demand
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