Critics in 1972 decried the report of the Club of Rome known as the "limits to growth." Why did this Club of Rome study, which predicted that materials would become economically too expensive to exploit in the future, cause such a stir?

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This was the first computer study of future supplies. The model was rather
complex for the time, and the result appeared realistic. Subsequent developments rendered
some of the worst predictions overstated, but this was a valiant first look at worldwide data
analysis.

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