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> TL;DR the famous book "Limits to Growth" was very prescient and it mostly hit the mark. Didn't he get pretty much everything wrong? Like embarrassing wrong e
by tick_tock_tick 4y ago
> TL;DR the famous book "Limits to Growth" was very prescient and it mostly hit the mark.
Didn't he get pretty much everything wrong? Like embarrassing wrong even messing up, or intentionally misunderstanding, basic economic theories?
- HighlandSpring 4y agoYou're probably referring to another book as this one's main author is a she. The book makes a point of how you can't predict the future. Instead it enumerates a bunch of shapes the future could take given various sets of assumptions. Some of the shapes look decent but require a lot of things to go right in the meantime.