Free Collision Course: Endless Growth on a Finite Planet by Kerryn Higgs

Acknowledgments
    A work of synthesis such as this would have been impossible without the research conducted by many others. To them I owe a great debt, both for their illuminating analysis and for having trawled through segments of the vast primary source material and pointed me in the right directions.
    Thanks to all those who read parts of the early drafts—Barbara Bloch, Mary O’Sullivan, Barney Foran, Steve Keen, Laurene Kelly, Graham Wells, and Margot Oliver, as well as to Stan Malinowitz, for running an economist’s eye over the final draft of chapter 6. Thanks to Dennis Meadows for providing his historical perspective on the World3 model; to all those who gave permission to include their graphs and tables; and to Riley Dunlap, Ross Buckley, Ramachandra Guha, Rogate Mshana, Bob Ward, Cliff Cobb, Sharon Beder, Pasquale Tridico, Jesse Ausubel, TRK Somaiya, Sharan Burrow and the secretariats of Eurostep and the Club of Rome for prompt and helpful answers to email inquiries. Thanks also to Miranda Martin, Clay Morgan, Deborah Cantor-Adams, and Marjorie Pannell at the MIT Press for their help in seeing the work to publication.
    Special thanks to Natasha Topschij for creating the map in figure 9.1, and to the people who read major parts of the original text and offered their thoughts on many aspects—Jen St. Clair, who shares a lifelong enthusiasm for the limits ideas, and Pete Hay, who advised on several versions of the initial draft and gave unfailing encouragement and perceptive critique.
    Very special thanks to Harriet Malinowitz, who insisted that my unending research should be written up, commented on drafts at many stages, and gave generously of her time and energy to assist with the revision and re-editing of the entire book over her summer break in 2013.
    Thanks, too, to the School of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Tasmania for its support, and to the UTAS library staff, who were ever reliable, well beyond the call of duty. Special thanks to the staff at Document Delivery, Launceston; they were terrific, and the research would have been impossible without them.

Abbreviations and Acronyms
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AAAS
American Association for the Advancement of Science
ABARE
Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Research Economics
ABC
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
ABC (US)
American Broadcasting Company
ACCI
Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
ACF
Australian Conservation Foundation
ACSH
American Council on Science and Health
AEI
American Enterprise Institute
AFL
American Federation of Labor
AiG
Australian Industry Group
AIGN
Australian Industry Greenhouse Network
ALP
Australian Labor Party
APEC
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation
ASSC
Advancement of Sound Science Center
AusAID
Australian Agency for International Development
BCA
Business Council of Australia
CASSE
Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy
CDFE
Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise
CED
Committee for Economic Development (US)
CEI
Competitive Enterprise Institute
CFCs
chlorofluorocarbons
CIO
Congress of Industrial Organizations
CIS
Centre for Independent Studies (AUS)
CPI
Committee on Public Information (US)
CPS
Centre for Policy Studies (UK)
CRA
Conzinc Rio Tinto Australia
CSIRO
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (AUS)
DFAT
Australian Government Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
EA
Enterprise Australia
EC
European Commission
EIA
Energy Information Administration (US)
EPA
Environmental Protection Agency
EROI
energy return on investment
ETS
emissions trading scheme
EU
European Union
FAIR
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (US)
FAO
Food and Agriculture Organization (UN)
FEE
Foundation for Economic Education (US)
FSA
financial services agreement
GATT
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
GATS
General Agreement on Trade in Services
GEO
Global Environmental Outlook (UNEP)
I=PAT
Impact = Population × Affluence × Technology
ICC
International Chamber of Commerce
IEA
Institute of Economic