Five Questions for Dennis L. Meadows
The many professions practiced by Dennis L. Meadows (born in 1942) can best be summed up by simply calling him a systemic thinker. In the early 1970s Meadows, a co-author of the revolutionary book The Limits to Growth, and his fellow members of the Club of Rome firmly established the concepts of the limited character of natural resources and the need to utilize them sustainably in the minds of the general public. Meadows’ systemic and quantitative approach to analyzing future developments has influenced environmental research ever since.