Limits to Growth: A Report for the Club of Rome

My talk will be divided into three parts, First, I will briefly describe the conclusions of the much publicized report for the Club of Rome: The Limits to Growth. Second, I will describe the model employed to make the calculations not so much from a technical point of view but to give you a feeling for the reasoning involved. And the last part will point out that though the model is extremely naive it nevertheless contains an important germ of truth.