TY - BOOK AU - Meadows,Donella H AU - Randers,Jørgen AU - Meadows,Dennis L TI - The limits to growth: the 30-year update AV - HD75.6 .M435 2004 PY - 2004///] CY - White River Junction, Vt PB - Chelsea Green Publishing Company KW - Economic development KW - Environmental aspects KW - Population KW - Economic aspects KW - Pollution KW - Sustainable development KW - local KW - Print books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-325) and index; Overshoot -- The driving force: exponential growth -- The limits: sources and sinks -- World3: 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 N2 - [This book] brings data on overshoot and global ecological collapse to the present moment. It provides a short course in the World3 computer model, types of growth, and the various kinds of over-shoot likely to occur in the current century. While it remains to be seen whether public policy will respond effectively and in time to problems such as climate change, this book makes compellingly clear the vital need for a sustainability revolution.-Dust jacket ER -