Limits to Validity of the Limits to Growth Modelling Program and Findings: Review of Conventional Critiques

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Authors: Terence Love
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Abstract

This artiicle provides a conventional critical review of the validity of the Limits to Growth modelling program and its findings and claims arising. The article sup[ports the limited claims of LtG that the modelling reveals structural features that non-feedback modelling overlooks. However, the review identifies weaknesses in the validity of the LtG approach and the subsequent claims of prediction from the LtG models. This article provides an alternative conventional background analysis to a separate article containing a case study applying Variety-Dynamics analysis to the Limits to Growth modelling program and its findings and claims arising.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Complex Systems and Decision Making Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy Sustainability and Ecological Systems Analysis

Publication details

Journal / source
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Publication date
9 March 2026
Language
EN
Document type
Preprint