The Limits to Growth (LTG) Report 1972

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Growth

We all want to grow richer, of course,

so we can buy more stuff to feed,

our rising expectations by force,

of our ever-growing greed.

For we were designed for survival,

to fight our way mindless ahead,

idea that more and bigger is better,

to our slowly swelling head.

But there are limits to growth,

that are easily proved and read,

the old checks and balances,

are quickly among the dead.

But a reckoning is coming,

we must downsize like yore,

or we will join the minions,

of those gone extinct before.

And growth will start over,

like it always has before.

Just of a different kind.

Copyright © Ronald W. Hull

7/14/22

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