The Limits to Growth

Konstantin Kisin’s WARNING: Our Leaders Have Lost Control, We’re Headed For Conflict And Violence!

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett, 20 August 2026.

A speaker describes the 1972 Limits to Growth study in some detail: it predicted ecological catastrophe in the 21st century if consumption continued unchecked, called for stabilising population at four billion people and dramatically reducing pollution per unit of output, and was written by engineers. The speaker argues its recommendations were not heeded.