"Growth is Going to Stop, for

One Reason or Another"

Dennis Meadows - Author of "The Limits to Growth".... interview....

Juan Bordera – Ferran Puig Vilar

Runaway inflation. Double-digit. War. Increasingly severe energy problems. Earlier and more powerful heat waves. Arrests of scientists. Border massacres. Setbacks in women's rights at the - supposed - the peak of the Empire, taking us back 50 years... Just 50 years. Does all this have any connection? Actually, yes.

It is 50 years since the publication of one of the most important works of the 20th century, The Limits to Growth. That report was commissioned by MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), which, as early as 1972, warned that the planet had limits and little time to face the shock against them. That is why Dennis Meadows (USA, 1942), one of the two principal authors of the study, has been giving interviews for media such as Le Monde or the Suddeutsche Zeitung. It was an honour to interview him for CTXT.

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