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The Earth is finite - so are there limits to growth? NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center/Flickr

Why uncontrolled climate change may be an ultimate limit to growth

“But who do you think’s right, Prof? The optimists or the pessimists?” At the end of my sustainability economics course in 2007, students were challenging me to end 20 years of professional fence-sitting…
Protesters decry the weak outcomes of the Rio+20 Earth Summit in Brazil last year. Wikimedia Commons/Aliencow

Still time to change Earth’s long-term forecast

After a lifetime promoting sustainability – sadly, with limited success – last year I sat down to consider what will happen to my beloved world over the next 40 years. The main question I asked myself…
Our current trajectory suggests that the world system will realise a decline in living standards. Image sourced from www.shutterstock.com

Reaching its limits: can the global economy keep growing?

In 1972 a group of scientists, known collectively as the Club of Rome, constructed a detailed mathematical model to test whether population growth and economic development could continue indefinitely and…

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