Dennis Meadows: "Limits to Growth turns 50 - Checking In"

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">On this episode, we meet with Professor Emeritus of Systems Management and author, Dennis Meadows.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Meadows revisits Limits to Growth 50 years after it was published.  Looking back, how does Meadows view the book? How much of the response to his description of overshoot was based in fear?</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Meadows offers advice to current leaders based on the models he developed in Limits to Growth. Why is it important to develop success indicators, and how can they be clearly communicated to the public? </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Further, Meadows explores the available leverage points to avoid the worst types of collapse at our current stage of crises. </span></p> <p><strong>About Dennis Meadows:</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Dennis Meadows is the Emeritus Professor of Systems Management at MIT and the co-author of Limits to Growth and Beyond the Limits. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">He has received numerous awards and is the recipient of four honorary doctorates for his contributions to environmental education. He co-authored the pioneering 1972 book The Limits to Growth, which analyzed the long-term consequences of unconstrained resource consumption driven by population and economic growth on a finite planet.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">For Show Notes and Transcript visit: https://www.thegreatsimplification.com/episode/12-dennis-meadows</span></p>