Mid 1960s to mid 1970s
Between the 1960s and mid 1970s the focus was largely on pollution (in some part due to
Rachel Carson’s book Silent Spring, 1962), the population ‘explosion’ and the careless use
of technology. One of the more influential publications of the period was The Limits to
Growth (Meadows et al., 1972), which voiced Malthusian concerns that development was
exceeding environmental limits and that there would be disaster if adequate corrective action
were not taken in time.