Limits to Growth: the Bitter Termination

In 1972, scientists from MIT created a computer model that analyzed global resource consumption and production. Their results shocked the world and created stirring conversation about global 'overshoot,' or resource use beyond the carrying capacity of the planet. Now,  Arnaud Dorthe comes back to update and expand their original findings in Limits to Growth: the Bitter Termination (LGBT).   Citing climate change as the most tangible example of our current overshoot, this scientist now provide us with an updated scenario. Over the past five decades, population growth and global warming have forged on with a striking semblance to the scenarios laid out by the World  computer model in the original book Limits to Growth. While Arnaud Dorthe does not make a practice of predicting future environmental degradation, he offers an analysis of present and future trends in resource use, and assess the predicament of Mankind. In many ways, the message contained in LGBT is apocalyptic  because overshoot cannot be sustained without collapse.  There is no reason to believe that humanity can still reverse some of its damage to Earth even if it takes appropriate measures to reduce inefficiency and waste.  LGBT is a long anticipated revival of some of the original voices in the growing chorus of sustainability. LGBT is a work of stunning intelligence that will expose for humanity the hazy but critical line between human growth, human development and environment damages.