
— Dennis L. Meadows, buch Die Grenzen des Wachstums
Die Grenzen des Wachstums. Übersetzer: Hans-Dieter Heck. Stuttgart 1972. ISBN 3-421-02633-5, S. 164 https://books.google.de/books?id=BeuQAAAAIAAJ&q=zusammenbruchs books.google https://books.google.de/books?id=BeuQAAAAIAAJ&q=zwänge
"Every day of continued exponetial growth brings the world system closer to the ultimate limits to that growth. A decision to do nothing is a decision to increase the risk of collapse. [...] if the global society waits until those constraints are unmistakebly apparent, it will have waited to long." - The Limits to Growth. New York 1972 donellameadows.org pdf http://www.donellameadows.org/wp-content/userfiles/Limits-to-Growth-digital-scan-version.pdf p. 183