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Nature 434, 271 (17 March 2005) | doi:10.1038/434271b; Published online 16 March 2005
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Limits to growth may be subtle but still inexorable
David Fisk1
- Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK
Dick Taverne, in his review of James Gustave Speth's recent book Red Sky at Morning, comments about a "wildly inaccurate" 1972 report by researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT): "The Limits to Growth predicted that we would run out of gold, zinc, mercury and oil before 1992" ("When greens see red", Nature 432, 443–444; 2004). This is a very common myth which needs correction.
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