Recently, Dr. Zhou Jinfeng, Secretary-General of China Biodiversity Conservation and Green Development Foundation (CBCGDF), and Carlos Alvarez Pereira, Vice President of The Club of Rome Report signed an agreement on the translation and publicaiton of its new report, Limits and Beyond：50 years on from The Limits to Growth, what did we learn and what’s next?.

(Photo: The Club of Rome)

In 1972, The Limits to Growth was the first study to explore the possible impacts of the growing ecological footprint of population growth, human activities and its physical impacts on our finite planet from a systems perspective. The authors warned that if growth trends in population, industrialization, resource use and pollution continued unabated, we would reach, and then overshoot the carrying capacity of the Earth at some point during the first decades of the 21st century.

Over the past half century, the findings of The Limits to Growth have proven remarkably accurate. The world population and economy have continued to grow and as a result, humanity now finds itself facing an unprecedented planetary emergency. The publication has played a critical role in shaping the narrative of sustainable development, alerting the world to the dangers of unlimited growth, environmental pollution and unchecked resource consumption.

The new report focuses on what we have learned since 1972 and what comes next. It addresses questions like: If we knew that continued growth in population, industrialization, resource use and pollution would cause us to overshoot the carrying capacity of the Earth, why haven’t we done anything? What have we learned in the last 50 years? And how do we learn at last what we already know? Is it too late to avoid overshooting the planetary limits? And – what do we do now?

Original Chinese Article: https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/VlchEnOrhsXjm6a1T97JVw

Translator: Daisy

Checked by Sara

Editor:Daisy

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