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The pollution crisis forecast by a well publicized “world model” has been traced to a typographical error in the program. The corrected, slightly revised model shows growth being limited before the year 2100 if the appropriate technology is introduced before the year 2000. Affluence without restrictive social policies is apparently attainable.
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BOYLE, T. Hope for the Technological Solution. Nature 245, 127–128 (1973). https://doi.org/10.1038/245127a0
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