30 million copies in 30 languages since its first publication in 1972

The price of progress: When each of us as an individual decides to buy something, we first consider the price. Yet society at large has long bought the idea of continual growth in population and production without adding up the final reckoning.
The Limits to Growth (click here)

by Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jørgen Randers, William W. Behrens III

Paperback, 207 pages
Published October 31st 1972 by Signet (first published October 1st 1972)

ISBN 0451057678 (ISBN13: 9780451057679)

Edition Language

English

This is the decade of the environmental movement, with 

This is the decade of the environmental movement, with the creation of the first green parties and the setting up of the first environment ministries in government.

The Club of Rome publishes The Limits to Growth, a book which stresses the importance of the environment, and the essential links with population and energy.

The first UN Conference on the Human Environment leads to the creation of the UN Environment Programme. The European Economic Community adopts its first Environment Action Programme, and starts developing a vast body of Community environmental legislation.

An oil price shock is sparked by the Arab–Israel war and triggers action on energy efficiency. An explosion near Seveso, Italy, releases a toxic cloud containing dioxin. The first World Climate Conference takes place. A panel on climate change set up by the National Academy of Sciences in USA advises that ‘A wait-and-see policy may mean waiting until it is too late’.

Membership of the EEC grows to nine with the accession of Denmark, Ireland and the United Kingdom.

David Schaafsma (click here)

September 22, 2016

One of the most important environmental books of all time, which I actually read as millions others did in 1972, largely "discredited" by the "establishment" Pro-Growth industry. It was written by a group of several assembled thinkers--scientists and industrialists, working together, imagine that--of the time called The Club of Rome. It was translated into dozens of languages, and in 1979, some U. S. poll had it that while a third of this country was "pro-growth," another third was actually "anti-growth," consistent with E. P. Shumacher's Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered, which everyone I knew then also read.

Here's a short summary of what it said:...