Final Warning Limits to Growth
biopilz1 HN recommender · recommended in 2 months, 2017–2020
documentary · general · evergreen · 2017–2020 on HN
A documentary on the 1972 Club of Rome study Limits to Growth, which questioned the pursuit of endless economic growth. It covers the study's findings and whether anyone acted on them.
HN commenters point to it as an overview of the Club of Rome's work in threads on systems thinking and collapse.
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We can try degrowth. We need to find a way to live well and decrease the GDP. The article talks about the limits of growth for, those who don't know what it is you can watch this video. ▶ this video
The book is called "limits to growth", and it's a work of the Club of Rome. You can watch this video to have an idea of their work [1]. At first it's a very strange idea, afterall we work and consume everyday in order to grow the economy. But every healthy system as a homeostastic point, a point where it doesn't need to grow, only to be maintained. We are now a fat society and we need to get our health back, we need to degrow. We need to work much less hours and consume much less. Reducing working hours is a great leverage point. People will start to have time to care about the community, and take care of their own health. Maybe have more time to take a walk instead of using the car. This can improve health and environment but will not contribute to economic growth, healthy people that don't use cars are not good friends of economic growth based on GDP. English is not my mother language, Ursula Le Guin had an eloquent post about this on her blog, but was removed to be on the last book. The post is called "Clinging to a Metaphor" (the metaphor is economic growth) and the book is called "No Time to Spare". [1] ▶ this video
final answer, as far as the archivist knows: link and this youtube film ▶ this video which has old footage in it but is not the from the 70s conf. Keep looking
Some relevant videos: link link link link link ▶ this video (the later ones are about Limits to Growth, co-written by the author of Thinking in Systems)