Limits to Growth - warnings ignored

The 1972 publication, "Limits to Growth," predicted a breakdown in social systems as institutional mandates become less relevant considering the environmental constraints around us. The scientists who wrote the report stated, "if the global society waits until those constraints are unmistakably apparent, it will have waited too long."

Scientists now agree that the constraints are unmistakably apparent.

The warnings of "Limits to Growth" were ignored, as were the warnings of a 20-year review of the report by its authors, in 1993, and a 30-year review in 2004, when co-author Dennis Meadows gave the following interview.