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EXERCISEMaking a caseGive the meaning of each of the following quotations, and explain
how it relates to the ideas presented in the reading text. Which of the two quotations
do you agree with? Give reasons to support your opinion.
1.There are no limits to growth and human progress when men and women are free to follow
their dreams.—Ronald Reagan
2.An age of expansion is giving way to an age of equilibrium.—Lewis MumfordBibliography
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Advancement of the Steady State Economy, he Daly News), http://steadystate.org/inluence
-of-donella-meadows/.
Meadows, Donella, Jørgen Randers, and Dennis Meadows, Limits to Growth: he 30-Year Update
(White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2004).
Turner, Graham, “A Comparison of the Limits to Growth with hirty Years of Reality” (Socio-
Economics and the Environment in Discussion, CSIRO Working Paper Series, 2008-2009),
http://www.csiro.au/iles/iles/plje.pdf.