sustainability at the prestigious American university and is now a vice-president at the world's most sustainable company Schneider Electric, also suggests we only have around 10 years left to save the planet.
If we act now to arrest climate change, she believes, then the doom-ridden forecasts of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from half a century ago can still be avoided.But the reality is carbon dioxide and methane emissions are still rising, as the world continues to burn oil, gas and coal to generate electricity and power our cars and aeroplanes.
Commenting on the potential fortune-telling accuracy of the 1972 report called The Limits to Growth, She told the Independent: "It's such a shame because if we had heeded the message [back] then, we could have had a really smooth transition.
My conclusion now is that we still have time but we’re fast running out of it. "We have to make drastic improvements. It’s going to be a bumpy road.
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