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Ryan S. Jeffery is an artist, researcher, professor and filmmaker.Founded in 2021, Do Not Research is an independent, reader-supported publication:Part I: A Computer Curve of DoomOn March 2, 1972, a global report hit bookstores in paperback. At just over two hundred pages, the modest ambition of its authors was nothing short of “a Copernican change of vision” for all of humanity. The news: the planet’s carrying capacity was reaching its limit. Global societal collapse was inevitable unless population growth, industrial activity, and resource consumption were all radically curbed. The authors telegraphed their Malthusian prescription in the title: The Limits to Growth. A publicity sensation, it sold over eight million copies worldwide and was translated into nearly thirty languages.Behind the report was a large cohort of scientists, business leaders, and politicians known as the Club of Rome, named after the location of their first public meeting. Limits was a political lightning rod.…

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