Limits to Growth

This is Brian Hayes' online version of a classic model of population growth and resource depletion used in the book The Limits to Growth. For more explanation visit Brian Hayes' page and the Wikipedia article on this model, which is called World3. You can also download a tar file containing a working copy.

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