The Overshoot

In The Limits to Growth the first chapter starts of by telling you what overshoot is and how it can affect the world. Overshoot is when you do something that goes way pass its capacity or limits unintentionally. Growth, limit, and delay are all factors in causing an overshoot. Overshoots occur often in people’s lives. An example of overshoot is the rapid population growth. This is an overshoot because we’re going beyond our limit to provide for everyone, there’s a delay on figuring out how to solve this problem, and the rate of this change is moving really fast.

Population plays a major role in global problems. As the population increases the amount of pollution in the air increases too. Industrial production is also rising and it has risen faster than population, which is crazy because its people that are using these products and if industrial production is rising faster than population than that means that they are making more goods than people can use.

The first line in the first paragraph on page six in The Limits to Growth says that people have increased their own population because they think it’s a good thing and it will solve most of their problems. In this case population growth isn’t a good thing and could make the problem even greater because you have to find a solution to the problem you may have caused while trying to fix your first problem.