A post at the Peak Generation blog discusses both the history behind the development of peak oil and similar attempts to look at exponential growth. The post notes that the distortions about the effort by M. King Hubbert are "nothing as to what has befallen the 1972 publication ofThe Limits to Growth, a best-selling paperback that grew out of meetings of an obscure global think tank, the Club of Rome. Limits to Growth is based upon computer modeling of global population, industrialization, pollution, food production and resource depletion, which, once again, shows that finite natural resources cannot endure indefinite exploitation."
Read the full post at Peak Generation
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