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The original report explicitly modeled population and resource depletion but described its scenarios as behavioral simulations rather than precise predictions; this undercuts the claim that it rested on a false premise that people would necessarily overcrowd the planet and degrade living conditions for everyone. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: The Limits to growth; a report for the Club of Rome's project on the predicament of mankind · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:fc1d10d2f563cc501e361148a3bd028ae910b9df3db5854836878f9034238ede

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The book used the World3 model to simulate the consequence of interactions between the Earth's and human systems. Five variables were examined in the original model. These variables are: world population, industrialization, pollution, food production and resource depletion. ... The authors intended to explore the possibility of a sustainable feedback pattern by altering growth trends among the five variables under three scenarios. They noted that their projections ... were predictions “only in the most limited sense of the word,” and were only indications of the system's behavioral tendencies.

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