Japan honours 'Limits to Growth' science author

TOKYO (AFP)

Meadows, of the US Massachusetts Institute of Technology, was the lead author of the study, which became a best-seller but was also attacked as alarmist and opposed to technology and progress.

Emperor Akihito watched Thursday as Meadows, 65, received the 500,000-dollar annual Japan Prize from the country’s Science and Technology Foundation for “transformation towards a sustainable society in harmony with nature.”

In his study, Meadows argued that “human demand exceeds nature’s supply.”

AFP