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The book rested on the premise that rising population, output and resource use would unravel civilization, a resource-exhaustion premise later judged wrong. EXPERT_ANALYSIS

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Source: Why Limits to Growth's Forecasts Are Still Relevant Today · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:cfb62d6ab9a65aabad7ab6343dc7d2efa37589aeafe3bb05215f342f10adfc68

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The 1970s study which predicted civilization would collapse some time this century was wrong on resources, but right on pollution. The book's central, controversial conclusion was that the seemingly never-ending increase in population, industrial output, food production, and resource use would rapidly unravel at some point around the middle of the 21st century. So, rather than running out of resources, we live in a world of plenty.

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