Post Growth: Overshoot and Collapse
The Limits to Growth is a 1972 report on exponential economic and population growth in a finite world. Commissioned by international think tank the Club of Rome, a team of MIT researchers led by Donella and Dennis Meadows built a computer model called World3 to simulate the interactions between resource consumption, industrial output, population size, food production, and Earth’s ecosystems. After modelling data from 1900-70, the team developed a range of possible scenarios through 2100. On a “business as usual” trajectory (World Model Standard Run), the model predicted “overshoot and collapse”—in the economy, environment, and population—before 2070. Often criticized as doomsday fantasy, a 2014 University of Melbourne research paper found that the report’s forecasts are accurate, 40 years on.
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Alexander Scholz
Alexander Scholz (he/him) is a Berlin-based writer, curator, and publisher. He’s the founder and co-editor of HOLO, an independent media imprint that explores critical creative practice where art, science, technology, and culture intersect. Scholz works regularly with international festivals and cultural organisations and has, for example, developed exhibitions, conferences, and educational formats for A.C.C. (Gwangju, KR), Mapping (Geneva, CH), MUTEK (Montréal, CA), and NODE Forum for Digital Art (Frankfurt, DE).
