¶ Club of Rome: Limits to Growth (1)
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Club of Rome: Limits to Growth: (Meadows & Forreaster)
"You must understand that I’m not playing at all the same kind of game that was played by the Club of Rome where they took the well-known data regarding all the inefficient ways that people do things-- that’s all they knew about. They did not know that metals recirculate. They did not know that every time the metals recirculate I can get two times as much performance for twice as many people with the same metal. They didn’t have the right information to start off with. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if we used their formula and their model but gave them my data, they would come out with the same conclusion I have: that the world will work.
“Forrester and I both received or Doctor’s at Notre Dame last week-end and I had some very pleasant words with him. He agreed that we should have a considerable talk. He told me he had lectured for the first time in 1949 at MIT and that he’s heard a lot about me, particularly since his report came out… And people have asked me in public what I think about the Club of Rome and I’ve had to say that I felt the data they had was inadequate and inept… Forrester is a computer man.”
