Dr John Robinson is an applied mathematician. Over the past 35 years he has expanded his interests to include economics, sociology, ecology and history, in order to informhis understanding of the global and national future
Apocalypse soon: Unwarranted skepticism and the growth fetish
1 February 2010
The dire predictions of the Club of Rome's 1972 report on_ The Limits to Growth _have supposedly been refuted by subsequent studies, but the refutations have serious shortcomings. This article is based on a presentation to the NZ Skeptics 2009 conference in Wellington, 26 September.