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Addition to reading list: Club of Rome author writes 2052 prognosis

Posted on 12th May 2012 by Benno Hansen

In the book “2052,” Jorgen Randers, one of the co-authors of “Limits to Growth,” issues a progress report and makes a forecast for the next forty years. To do this, he asked dozens of experts to weigh in with their best predictions on how our economies, energy supplies, natural resources, climate, food, fisheries, militaries, political divisions, cities, psyches, and more will take shape in the coming decades. He then synthesized those scenarios into a global forecast of life as we will most likely know it in the years ahead.The good news: we will see impressive advances in resource efficiency, and an increasing focus on human well-being rather than on per capita income growth. But this change might not come as we expect. Future growth in population and GDP, for instance, will be constrained in surprising ways-by rapid fertility decline as result of increased urbanization, productivity decline as a result of social unrest, and continuing poverty among the poorest 2 billion world citizens. (Presentation at Google Books)

“We need a system of governance that takes a more long-term view […] It is unlikely that governments will pass necessary regulation to force the markets to allocate more money into climate friendly solutions, and must not assume that markets will work for the benefit of humankind […] We already live in a manner that cannot be continued for generations without major change. Humanity has overshot the earth’s resources, and in some cases we will see local collapse before 2052 – we are emitting twice as much greenhouse gas every year as can be absorbed by the world’s forests and oceans.“ – Jørgen Randers at presentation of the book

“Now, at age 66, I realize my concerns have been wasted. Not because the global future is smooth and rosy. My concern has been in vain, because it has not had much influence on world events during the generations that have elapsed since I began to worry. […] Although things will be more or less alright until 2052, the world will in 2052 be destined down the road, I really fear, the road to self-reinforcing climate change and climate disasters in the second half of the century. I certainly don’t see a world in a well-planned course towards sustainability“ – Jørgen Randers to Danish newspaper Information

  • 2052: A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years at Google Books
  • The Club of Rome: New Report issues a warning about humanity’s ability to survive without a major change in direction
  • Information / Fremtiden: En rodet affære med lavvækst og klimakaos


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