Message-ID: <199701062059.PAA02754@virtual.itribe.net> Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 15:56:56 +0000 From: Salaam <mailto:mobius99@SERIES2000.COM> Subject: (Fwd) Re: BEYOND THE LIMITS To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
Forwarded message: From: Self <FS03/675> To: Jay Hanson <mailto:jhanson@ILHAWAII.NET>,jhanson@ILHAWAII.NET Subject: Re: BEYOND THE LIMITS Date: Mon, 6 Jan 1997 14:47:34This type of thinking was prevalent in the much of this century. Naturally the focus to prevent poor countries and people from reproducing while the rich and infamous get the benefits. Some of the methods to retard growth of the undesirables were: 1. sterilization of the mentally and physically handicapped promoted by the philosophy of eugenics 2. In the '30s -45 the Nazi final solution was implemented to rid the world of inferior peoples-Jews, Homosexuals, non-whites and gypsies. 3. During the 60's the US promoted and encouraged the sterilization of mostly African Brazilian women. 4 For most of the last 30 years US companies have sold inferior milk substitutes to under developed countries, the UN and the IMF, World Bank (and others) have instituted severe austerity measures to control economic growth in under developed countries while raping the countries fo their wealth, which has increased poverty, corruption and death in these countries. The reality is the Limit scenario is promoted by and for rich Western nations and their political lackeys...
W Jones
> THE LIMITS TO GROWTH was updated 20 years later and came up
> with more-or-less the same results:
>
> "In Scenario 1 the world society proceeds along its historical
> path as long as possible without major policy change. Technology
> advances in agriculture, industry, and social services according
> to established patterns. There is no extraordinary effort to
> abate pollution or conserve resources. The simulated world tries
> to bring all people through the demographic transition and into
> an industrial and then post-industrial economy. This world
> acquires widespread health care and birth control as the service
> sector grows; it applies more agricultural inputs and gets
> higher yields as the agricultural sector grows; it emits more
> pollutants and demands more nonrenewable resources as the
> industrial sector grows.
>
> "The global population in Scenario 1 rises from 1.6 billion in
> the simulated year 1900 to over 5 billion in the simulated
> year 1990 and over 6 billion in the year 2000. Total
> industrial output expands by a factor of 20 between 1900 and
> 1990. Between 1900 and 1990 only 20% of the earth's total
> stock of nonrenewable resources is used; 80% of these
> resources remain in 1990. Pollution in that simulated year has
> just begun to rise noticeably. Average consumer goods per
> capita in 1990 is at a value of 1968-$260 per person per year
> -- a useful number to remember for comparison in future runs.
> Life expectancy is increasing, services and goods per capita
> are increasing, food production is increasing. But major
> changes are just ahead.
>
> "In this scenario the growth of the economy stops and reverses
> because of a combination of limits. Just after the simulated
> year 2000 pollution rises high enough to begin to affect
> seriously the fertility of the land. (This could happen in
> the 'real world' through contamination by heavy metals or
> persistent chemicals, through climate change, or through
> increased levels of ultraviolet radiation from a diminished
> ozone layer.) Land fertility has declined a total of only 5%
> between 1970 and 2000, but it is degrading at 4.5% per year in
> 2010 and 12% per year in 2040. At the same time land erosion
> increases. Total food production begins to fall after 2015.
> That causes the economy to shift more investment into the
> agriculture sector to maintain output. But agriculture has to
> compete for investment with a resource sector that is also
> beginning to sense some limits.
>
> "In 1990 the nonrenewable resources remaining in the ground would
> have lasted 110 years at the 1990 consumption rates. No
> serious resource limits were in evidence. But by 2020 the
> remaining resources constituted only a 30-year supply. Why did
> this shortage arise so fast? Because exponential growth
> increases consumption and lowers resources. Between 1990 and
> 2020 population increases by 50% and industrial output grows by
> 85%. The nonrenewable resource use rate doubles. During the
> first two decades of the simulated twenty-first century, the
> rising population and industrial plant in Scenario 1 use as
> many nonrenewable resources as the global economy used in the
> entire century before. So many resources are used that much
> more capital and energy are required to find, extract, and
> refine what remains.
>
> "As both food and nonrenewable resources become harder to obtain
> in this simulated world, capital is diverted to producing more
> of them. That leaves less output to be invested in basic
> capital growth.
>
> "Finally investment cannot keep up with depreciation (this is
> physical investment and depreciation, not monetary). The
> economy cannot stop putting its capital into the agriculture
> and resource sectors; if it did the scarcity of food,
> materials, and fuels would restrict production still more. So
> the industrial capital plant begins to decline, taking with it
> the service and agricultural sectors, which have become
> dependent upon industrial inputs. For a short time the
> situation is especially serious, because the population keeps
> rising, due to the lags inherent in the age structure and in
> the process of social adjustment. Finally population too
> begins to decrease, as the death rate is driven upward by lack
> of food and health services." [p.p.132-134]
>
> //////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
> GLOBAL POPULATION GROWTH WITH LIFE-SUPPORT COLLAPSE Billions
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |11
> You are here----------------+ |10
> | _ |9
> | _ -|~~-_ |8
> V _ -~ | ~ - _ |7
> _-~ | ~ _ |6
> _- ~ | ~_|5
> _-~ | |4
> _-~ | |3
> ____ ---~ Massive human die-off begins. |2
> -- ~~~~~~ (GIGADEATH) |1
> --|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|-----|---
> 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020 2040 2060 2080
>
> [P. 133, Meadows, et al., BEYOND THE LIMITS;
> Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 1992. 800-639-4099,
> 603-448-0317, Fax 603-448-2576; ISBN 0-930031-62-8]
>
> BEYOND THE LIMITS is an update to the Club of Rome's 1972
> LIMITS TO GROWTH and is endorsed by Jan Tinbergen.
> Tinbergen shared the first Nobel Prize for Economics in 1969.
>
> [For a good history of this issue, see:
> Neurath, FROM MALTHUS TO THE CLUB OF ROME AND BACK;
> M. E. Sharpe, Armonk, NY, 1994; ISBN 1-56324-408-X
> For a detailed book about the Club of Rome itself, see:
> Moll: FROM SCARCITY TO SUSTAINABILITY; Peter Lang, 1995.]
>
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