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Exploring the Viability of the Updated World3 Model for Examining the Impact of Computing on Planetary Boundaries
Nara Guliyeva, Eshta Bhardwaj, Christoph Becker
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.07634

Exploring the Viability of the Updated World3 Model for Examining the Impact of Computing on Planetary Boundaries
The influential Limits to Growth report introduced a system dynamics-based model to demonstrate global dynamics of the world's population, industry, natural resources, agriculture, and pollution between 1900-2100. In current times, the rapidly expanding trajectory of data center development, much of it linked to AI, uses increasing amounts of natural resources. The extraordinary amount of resources claimed warrants the question of how computing trajectories contribute to exceeding planetary bou…

Sustainability Risks under Lotka-Volterra Dynamics
Yiren Wang, Tianhao Zhi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.04780 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.04780

Sustainability Risks under Lotka-Volterra Dynamics
The record-breaking heat in recent years, along with other extreme weather conditions worldwide has not only warned us about the devastating effects of global warming but also revived our interest in studying sustainability risks on a broader scale. In this paper, we propose a generalised model of sustainability risks characterising the economic-environmental-social nexus (EVS) based on a classic Lotka-Volterra framework. Compared to the World3 model proposed by Meadows et al. (1972) in their l…