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The book is a blueprint for the twenty-first century at a time when the Club of Rome thought that the onset of the first global revolution was upon them. The authors saw the world coming into a global-scale societal revolution amid social, economic, technological, and cultural upheavals that started to push humanity into an unknown.
The Club of Rome stimulated considerable public attention with the first report to the club, The Limits to Growth. [7] Published in 1972, its computer simulations suggested that growth of production and consumption could not continue indefinitely because of either resource depletion or unmanageable levels of pollution .
The first formal meeting of the Club of Rome took place in Bern in 1970. [14] The 1972 best-selling report The Limits to Growth, which was commissioned by the Club of Rome and funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, was the first attempt to simulate the consequences of development on the earth's limited resources. [15]
[a] [4] The model was based on the work of Jay Forrester of MIT, [2]: 21 as described in his book World Dynamics. [5] 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.
Aurelio Peccei (Italian pronunciation: [auˈrɛːljo petˈtʃɛi]; 4 July 1908 – 14 March 1984), was an Italian industrialist and philanthropist, who co-founded with Alexander King and first president of the Club of Rome, an organisation which, in 1972, produced The Limits to Growth report.
First, regardless of the current case of the Club of Rome, it was founded by Peccei, an Italian, and King, a Scot. The other four members of the inner group were French, Austrian, Swiss, and Dutch. Why not Rome? The Italian Peccei probably decided that "Club of Rome" had a better ring to it than "Club of Turin" or "Club of Edinburgh."
World Dynamics, by Jay Wright Forrester. 1973 ISBN 0-262-56018-6; The Limits to Growth (Abstract, 8 pages, by Eduard Pestel. A Report to The Club of Rome (1972), by Donella H. Meadows, Dennis l. Meadows, Jorgen Randers, William W. Behrens III) Limits to Growth, The 30-Year Update, by Dennis Meadows and Eric Tapley. 2004 CDRom with World3-2004 ...
Eventually resulted in a Roman victory. However, Rome granted Roman citizenship to all of its Italian allies, to avoid another costly war. [38] 88 BC Sulla's first march on Rome Italy, Roman Republic: Populares: The Optimates were victorious and Sulla briefly took power in Rome. [39] 82–81 BC Sulla's civil war: Italy, Roman Republic: Populares