“我的担忧一直徒劳无益,正是因为我的担忧自开始以来,在悠长岁月中,它似乎并未给全球演进带来多少正面的影响。”一个地球早就不够用了。四十年前,罗马俱乐部的著名报告《增长的极限》早已警告过:无限的增长是不可能持续的,因为我们迟早会耗尽这个星球的资源,对奠基于不断进步、不断发展的理念之上的现代文明而言,这等于是敲响了丧钟,因为这意味着我们要么在到达极限之前转变模式,要么就一如既往,直到走向崩溃(有些激进者认为这个进程已经开始)。如今,当年这份报告的撰写者之一,乔根·兰德斯,再度展望四十年后的世界:那个可能的未来将是什么样? “My concern has been futile, precisely because of my concern that in the long years it has not seemed to have had any significant positive impact on global evolution since its inception.” “A planet is long gone. Forty years ago, the famous report by the Club of Rome, ”The Limits to Growth," has long warned that unlimited growth is impossible to sustain because sooner or later we are depleting the planet’s resources and relying on the concept of continuous improvement and continuous development In the case of modern civilization, this amounts to a knock on the death knell as this means that we either change the pattern before it reaches the limit or, as always, until it collapses (some activists think the process has begun). Now, one of the authors of the report, then, was Jorge Landers looking again at the world forty years later: what would that future be like?