Sourced of - We Love Earth - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7lmh5XVRW0 DENNIS MEADOWS, full interview about the State of our Planet, 45 years after ‘The Limits to Growth’ – arguably the most influential book about sustainability ever written. We feel very privileged that we were in the position to pick his exceptionally sharp mind and we really think this is a must-watch interview for anyone who’s working on climate & sustainability! In this first part of the interview (part 1 of 4) we talk about the main message of The Limits to Growth, and if these forecasts still hold true today. We also talk about climate change – and population growth. Yes, that’s four very interesting topics already! (If you want to see the rest, please connect to @We Love Earth (Facebook, Twitter & YouTube) for more. That is also a great support for our work!) === Context of interview: Meadows, The Limits to Growth === Dennis Meadows visited the Netherlands a couple of months ago on invitation by the Club of Rome Dutch Association. He is an American scientist and together with his spouse Donella Meadows (who sadly deceased in 2001) is part of the original group of four authors who published the first edition of ‘The Limits to Growth’ in 1972 – a book that really quite literally shook the world and that was hugely influential in the rise of the global environmental movement (leading for instance to the formation of a large number of today well-known environmental NGOs within 2 or 3 years). Dennis Meadows is now 75 years old, but still working and impressively so. What struck us most when talking to him was his no-nonsense attitude. No compliments, no trivia, as if to emphasize there really is no time for that – giving the state that we’re in. “If this isn’t collapse, then what is” – are the words that still echo in our heads after his interview and lecture (for images see: http://bit.ly/2ev0wr3) at Nyenrode Business University earlier that same day. www.weloveearth.org