Who propounded the concept of “Limits to Growth”?

1. A

   Club of Rome

   (a) Club of Rome. The 1972 report The Limits to Growth, commissioned by the Club of Rome and modelled by Meadows et al. at MIT, propounded the concept. (a) Official key.

2. B

   UNESCO

   (b) UNESCO. Education, science and culture; not the Limits to Growth model.

3. C

   Brundtland Commission

   (c) Brundtland Commission. Our Common Future (1987) defined sustainable development, a later neighbour.

4. D

   Agenda 21

   (d) Agenda 21. Rio 1992 action plan, twenty years after Limits to Growth.

Summary. Official key is (a). Limits to Growth is the Club of Rome / Meadows 1972 thesis. Brundtland and Agenda 21 are later sustainable-development documents; UNESCO is the wrong house.