The Measurement Minute by Gary Angel

Celebrating 50 years since their landmark study The Limits to Growth, the co-editors of a retrospective look back manage to seem as smug and wrong-headed as ever in this Wired interview:

https://www.wired.com/story/the-infamous-1972-report-that-warned-of-civilizations-collapse/

It’s awfully hard to model the world but a deep ignorance about economics and modelling surely can’t help. The Limits to Growth remains a milestone in the long, sad chronicle of bad data science.

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