The results, published in the 1970 book The Limits to Growth, used estimate of resources, combined with population and economic growth, to find when exhaustion would occur, as well as estimating pollution levels.10 Their conclusion that existing trends were unsustainable was, again, seized on by many to promote deindustrialization, zero economic growth, [END OF PAGE 58] and a number of similar ideologies. It certainly helped to influence the Carter administration's views on resources, as Chapter 2 demonstrated.
The Limits to Growth, used estimate of resources, combined with population and economic growth, to find when exhaustion would occur, as well as estimating pollution levels Their conclusion that existing trends were unsustainable was seized on to promote deindustrialization, zero economic growth, and similar ideologies