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The Limits to Growth, an Uncommon card
The Limits to Growth is a 1972 report that discussed the possibility of exponential economic and population growth with a finite supply of resources, studied by computer simulation.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Arts
- ATK
- 80
- DEF
- 83
- Power
- 163
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 120,000
Power 163 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 85 % of WikiCards cards.
The Limits to Growth quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the The Limits to Growth card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The study used the World3 computer model to simulate the consequence of ______ between the Earth and human systems.
Answer
interactions. The study used the World3 computer model to simulate the consequence of interactions between the Earth and human systems. From the The Limits to Growth article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
The Limits to Growth is a ____ report that discussed the possibility of exponential economic and population growth with a finite supply of resources, studied by computer simulation.
Answer
1970s. The Limits to Growth is a 1972 report that discussed the possibility of exponential economic and population growth with a finite supply of resources, studied by computer simulation. From the The Limits to Growth article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Critique of Pure Reason. Critique of Pure Reason 87 · Loudspeaker 84 · The Limits to Growth 80 · Vladimir Horowitz 77 ATK in WikiCards.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The study used the World3 computer model to simulate the consequence of interactions between the Earth and human systems.
- Commissioned by the Club of Rome, the study saw its findings first presented at international gatherings in Moscow and Rio de Janeiro in the summer of 1971.
- The report's authors are Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jørgen Randers, and William W. Behrens III, representing a team of 17 researchers.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The The Limits to Growth article was read about 120,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 80 and blocks with 83: each hit it takes is cut by 33 %.
How to get The Limits to Growth
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Text : Wikipedia, The Limits to Growth (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Д.Ильин : vectorization, translation, CC0, Wikimedia Commons.
