Dennis Meadows: “Limits to Growth turns 50 - Checking In” | The Great Simplification #12

On this episode, we meet with Professor Emeritus of Systems Management and author, Dennis Meadows. (Recorded Feb 17, 2022 ( a week before Russia/Ukraine, mentioned in the podcast)

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?

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?

Further, Meadows explores the available leverage points to avoid the worst types of collapse at our current stage of crises.

Dennis Meadows is the Emeritus Professor of Systems Management at MIT and the co-author of Limits to Growth and Beyond the Limits.

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.

Show Notes (linked notes at )

Resilience: Cassandra’s Curse: How limits to growth was demonized

Update to limits to growth: Comparing the World3 model with empirical data

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