How long does it take to read Beyond the Limits?
Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jorgen Randers
Beyond the Limits by Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jorgen Randers takes about 5 hours 30 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 30 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1992. 300 pages, about 82,500 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 10 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 30 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 26 minutes |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This is a book about human population growth, carrying capacities, delayed feedbacks, our environmental impacts, and the possibilities of overshoot and collapse. -- Excerpt: "Any population-economy-environment system that has feedback delays and slow physical responses, that has thresholds and erosive mechanisms, is literally unmanageable. No matter how brilliant its technologies, no matter how efficient its economy, no matter how wise its decision makers, it simply can't steer itself away from hazards unless it tests its limits very, very slowly."
Subjects: Sustainable development, Développement durable, Economische groei, Aspect économique, Environmental aspects of Pollution, Nouvel ordre économique international
