Der Club of Rome warnte bereits 1972 in seinem berühmten Bericht The Limits to Growth vor Szenarien dieser Art. 1992 wiederholte dessen Hauptautorin Donella Meadows die Warnung in dem Buch Beyond the Limits.
The Club of Rome issued a similar warning in its famous 1972 report, The Limits to Growth, and again in Beyond the Limits, a 1992 book by the lead author of that earlier report, Donella Meadows.