Beyond the Limits

For the 2003 German film, see Beyond the Limits (film).

Beyond the Limits

First edition cover
Author	Donella Meadows Dennis Meadows Jørgen Randers
Subject	Environment
Publisher	Chelsea Green Publishing
Publication date	1992
ISBN	0-930031-62-8
OCLC	48886446

Beyond the Limits is a 1992 book continuing the modeling of the consequences of a rapidly growing global population that was started in the 1972 report Limits to Growth. Donella Meadows, Dennis Meadows, and Jørgen Randers are the authors and all were involved in the original Club of Rome study as well. Beyond the Limits (Chelsea Green Publishing Company) and Earthscan^[1] addressed many of the criticisms of the Limits to Growth book, but still has caused controversy and mixed reactions.

Influence

Billionaire investor Richard Rainwater indicates having been influenced to invest in oil in the 1990s upon reading Beyond the Limits'.^[2] His niece Kelley Rainwater reports she gave him this book as a Christmas present. She was introduced to the book through Dr. Jay Earley who is a social transformation theorist and colleague of the Meadows.

See also

• Donella Meadows' twelve leverage points to intervene in a system
• World3
• Steady-state economy
• Peak Oil
• Limits to Growth
• The Ultimate Resource

References

1. "Routledge and CRC Press Environment and Sustainability Books". www.routledge.com.
2. Ryan, Oliver (2005-12-26). "The Rainwater Prophecy". Fortune. Archived from the original on 2008-04-13. Retrieved 2008-04-01.