The Club of Rome in an organisation consisting of current and former heads of state, UN bureaucrats, high-level politicians and government officials, diplomats, scientists, economists, and business leaders from around the globe.[1] It stimulated considerable public attention in 1972 with the first report to the Club of Rome, The Limits to Growth. Since 1 July 2008 the organization has been based in Winterthur, Switzerland.
The Limits to Growth[]
The Limits to Growth, is a 1972 report commissioned by the Club of Rome. In commissioning the MIT team to undertake the project that resulted in LTG, the Club of Rome had two objectives:[2]
- Gain insights into the limits of our world system and the constraints it puts on human numbers and activity.
- Identify and study the dominant elements, and their interactions, that influence the long-term behavior of world systems.
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- ↑ "The First Global Revolution". The Green Agenda. 19 November 2005. http://www.green-agenda.com/globalrevolution.html. Retrieved 6 December 2012.
- ↑ Meadows, Donella H; Meadows, Dennis L; Randers, Jørgen; Behrens III, William W (1972). The Limits to Growth; A Report for the Club of Rome's Project on the Predicament of Mankind. New York: Universe Books. p. 185. ISBN 0876631650. http://www.donellameadows.org/wp-content/userfiles/Limits-to-Growth-digital-scan-version.pdf.