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by whatshisface 1713 days ago
I think the Club of Rome were the first major international policy group to take resource finitude seriously. Although I read a bit of their final report, and their projections were ridiculous and we've already blown well past them with no trouble at all.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Limits_to_Growth

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Not sure i agree with no trouble at all. It is done at great cost to the environment, and to ourselves.
They're still on that neo-Malthusian thing hot and heavy, though. They have a Twitter account and it seems clear they consider themselves vindicated.