Limits to Growth was a 1972 book modeling the consequences of a rapidly growing global population, commissioned by the Club of Rome. Donella Meadows was its lead author. The book used the World3 model to simulate the consequence of interactions between the Earth's and human systems.

The updated version was published on June 1, 2004 by Chelsea Green Publishing Company under the name Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update. Donnella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and Dennis Meadows have updated and expanded the original version.

One sample review: "Written in refreshingly accessible prose, Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update is a long anticipated revival of some of the original voices in the growing chorus of sustainability. Limits to Growth: The 30 Year Update is a work of stunning intelligence that will expose for humanity the hazy but critical line between human growth and human development."

Books

• ISBN 0-87663-222-3 Second edition (cloth)
• ISBN 0-87663-918-X Second edition (paperback)

See also

• Donella Meadows' twelve leverage points to intervene in a system
• Economic growth
• Peak Oil (Hubbert's Curve)
• Energy crisis

External links

• 1999 review by Club of Rome member
• The new version "Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update" in Amazon

• Sound Interview: Dennis Meadows one of the members and authors of the book 09. october 2004 Global Public Media
• Rome Club Conference 2004: Limits of Ignorance
• Uppsala Protocol: how to act when one resource hits it's limit