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Forrester1 and Meadows et al.2 have presented a family of computer models simulating the future behaviour of some world problems which suggest predicaments of mankind caused by compounded growth. Here I report preliminary results from a different pattern of models which imply that more hopeful outcomes are possible. Both models are assailable oversimplifications.
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BURKE, F. Ignorance about Limitations to Growth. Nature 246, 226–230 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/246226a0
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