Beyond The Limits

Chelsea Green Press, 1992

AS HUMANITY transforms the planet will earthly limits pull the plug on progress? Adjunct Professor of Environmental Studies Donella Meadows's newest book, Beyond the Limits the 20-year sequel to Meadows's international bestseller, Limits toGrowth attempts to show that society may already have overshot the limits necessary to achieve a sustainable civilization. Using computer modeling, she shows how trends in resource use, population, pollution, and industrial production might differ under various decisions by policymakers. "I don't write about 'growth' with unquestioning approval," Meadows wrote in an earlier book, The Global Citizen. "I ask what the growth is for, who will benefit, at what cost, paid by whom."

Earthly analyst Meadows.

MEADOWS ATTEMPTS to show that society may alreadyhave overshot the limits of a sustainable civilization.