Limits toGrowth 50 Years Later:Ukraine, Inflation, Planetary Boundaries,Depletion and the Urgent Need for Systems Change
Fri, Apr 22
|Online Panel
Panel on 50th Anniversary of Limits to Growth
Time & Location
Apr 22, 2022, 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM EDT
Online Panel
About the Event
L4E Collab
Facilitator: Rigo Melgar
You must Register in advance for this meeting:
https://mcgill.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZAkdumqqj8uHdIdeq1UT0ojb-t1Gr3GIlE4
It has been 50 years since the Limits to Growth (LtG) report, sponsored by the Club of Rome, became one of the top-selling environmental titles ever published, with more than 30 million copies sold in 30 languages. In the early 1970s, MIT's Jay Forrester assembled a team of up-and-coming experts in the emergent field of complex systems that included Donella Meadows, Dennis Meadows, Jørgen Randers, and William Behrens III to uncover the system dynamics of what would happen if humanity allowed unconstrained population and economic growth in a biophysically finite planet. 50 years later, humanity is faced with increasing ecological and social crises that merit revisiting the warnings in LtG to envision and realize systems change that can enable us to achieve a just sustainability transformation to a right-sized economy in this decade of action.
This event is being co-sponsored by the Leadership for the Ecozoic, the Gund Institute for Environment, the Academy for Systems Change, and Rethinking Economics UVM.