Evidence item

The original report identifies interacting population, industrialization, pollution, food, and resource-depletion trends and presents sustainable equilibrium as possible, not simple surface-area overcrowding. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: The Limits to Growth · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:6c54d47e675dec2d7e743189843918f3f3f991f6f394945ca67f70a085ff4501

If the present growth trends in world population, industrialization, pollution, food production, and resource depletion continue unchanged, the limits to growth on this planet will be reached sometime within the next one hundred years. It is possible to alter these growth trends and establish ecological and economic stability sustainable far into the future, with basic material needs satisfied.