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“... Twenty years after The Limits to Growth comes the sequel. It’s a hard act to follow: the original sold nine million copies and made its authors and backers, the so-called Club of Rome, famous with its prophecy that the comfortable optimism of the Sixties was threatened by a combination of population growth, resource exhaustion and the effluents produced by affluence ...”

“... in a book called Beyond the Limits (1992) by Donella Meadows, Dennis Meadows and Jørgen Randers. Twenty years earlier they had authored (with William Behrens) one of the most influential ever reports on the relationship between society and the environment, The Limits to Growth. The argument of this book was that the earth could sustain only a ...”