Limits to Growth - Computer Simulations

A major study commissioned by the Club of Rome was undertaken by a team of scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the USA and published in a book called The Limits to Growth. The study used a computerised mathematical model of the world economy to show that the existing exponential rates of growth of population and economic activity could not continue indefinitely on a planet that had only limited natural resources and limited ability to deal with pollution.