Facing Limits: Abundance, Scarcity, and the American Way of Life

Carson Fellow and environmental historian Donald Worster argues
that the discovery of the “New World” in the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries was the most important event in modern
history. These explorations gave Western society a wealth of
natural resources that has never since been duplicated. Based
around the controversy of the 1970s global bestseller, Limits to
Growth, Worster examines the implications of the discovery of the
New World and how society has transformed from one of natural
abundance to one that is faced with scarcity. Donald Worster is the
Hall Distinguished Professor of American History at the University
of Kansas, where he has been a member of the faculty since 1989.