Limites Del Crecimiento

overshoot

To overshoot means to go too far, to go beyond limits accidentally without intention.
The three causes of overshoot are always the same, at any scale from poersonal to planetary. First,there is growth, accelerations, rapid change.
Second, there is some form of limit of barrier, beyond which the moving system may not safely go.
Third, there is a delay or mistake in the perceptionsand the responses that strive to keep the system within its limits. These three are necessary and sufficient to produce an overshoot.
Overshoot is commun
The limits are similarly diverse. they may beimposed by a fixed amount of space; by limited time; by constrains inherent in physical, biological, political, psychological, or other features of a system.
most types of overshoot occur frequentlyenough that when they are potentially dangerous, people learn to avoid them or to minimize their cosequences
Growth in the globe’s population and material economy confronts humanity whit thispossibility.
it is the focus of this book
Thriughout hits text we will grapple with the difficulties of understanding and describing the causes and cosequences of a population and economy that hace grown pastthe support capacitienes of the earth
The earth’s peples hace been using more of the planet’s resource producion each year thar could be regenerated in that year, the ecological footprint of globalsociety has overshot the earth’scapacity to provide.
The potencial consecuences of this overshoot are profundly dangerous.
Three of thsese wiewing devices are widely used and easy to describe:
standarscientific and economic theories about the global system
data on the world’s resources and environment
a computer model to help us integrate that information and project its implications

Our fourthdevice is our worldview, and internally consistent set of beliefs attitudes, and values, a dundamental way of looking at reality
we hace already made de basic point. Overshoot comes from the...