Books by Donella H Meadows
“This is such a depressing book. This is The Limits to Growth: The Thirty Year Update. A lot of people, what they remember about The Limits to Growth is it was published in 1971 and was completely lambasted by economists, technologists, lots and lots of people. What it has sitting underneath it is a model of the world, a model of the world economy, which links population, food, industrial production, pollution, a few other things, it’s quite a complicated systems-dynamics model. Obviously it’s only a model, it’s a picture of the world, it isn’t the world itself. But what it said was that if our behaviour as a society didn’t change, we would end up with industrial collapse in the mid-2020s and a population collapse in the mid-2030s.” Read more...
Andrew Curry, Technologist
Interviews where books by Donella H Meadows were recommended
The best books on Futures, recommended by Andrew Curry
The futurist says work in futures is about patterns, not predictions. He recommends five books about the future that look backwards as well as forwards.
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The Limits to Growth
by Dennis L. Meadows, Donella H Meadows & Jorgen Randers -
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Hubbert’s Peak
by Kenneth S Deffeyes -
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Winning the Oil Endgame
by Amory B Lovins, E Kyle Datta, Jonathan G Koomey and Nathan J Glasgow & Odd-Even Bustnes -
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Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things
by Michael Braungart and William McDonough -
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Wind Power
by Paul Gipe
The best books on Clean Energy, recommended by Jerry McNerney
The best books on Clean Energy, recommended by Jerry McNerney
We’re in a “dual energy crisis”, says the author of Clean Energy Nation, and not doing enough about it. He tells us what we must do if we’re to overcome our dependence on oil and limit the damaging effects of climate change
The best books on Saving the World, recommended by Jonathon Porritt
Co-founder of Forum For The Future and one of the leading experts on climate change hammers home the need to encourage sustainable development technologies across the globe
The best books on Global Warming, recommended by Rosamund McDougall
The policy director for the Optimum Population Trust, the environmental think-tank, discusses books on Global Warming. Includes a volume on the wildlife of Borneo alongside DH Lawrence’s The Rainbow
