Indeed Jonathan. LTG was epic. But a better question is why so much effort was set forth to discredit it and all of us associated with the follow up studies for the Club of Rome. Hint, it is all about the banking system. Without growth piling up phantom wealth would be exposed, for the insanity it is. As for collapse note: https://medium.com/@daneke/collapse-american-style-the-political-economy-of-societal-suicide-69a578b73b27