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The Club of Rome

The club of Rome was set up in April 1968 and our founders wereAurelio Peccei, an Italian industrialist, and Alexander King, a Scottish scientist. They came together to discuss the dilemma of prevailing short-term thinking in international affairs and, in particular, the concerns regarding unlimited resource consumption in an increasingly interdependent world. They raised considerable public attention in 1972 with the report “The Limits to Growth”.

The club of Rome organization is independent of any political, ideological or religious interests with an aim “to act as a global catalyst for change through the identification and analysis of the crucial problems facing humanity and the communication of such problems to the most important public and private decision makers as well as to the general public."

The limits to growth is a model of population verses resources and has recorded what will happen as population continues to grow, it has shown that society will run out of the non-renewable resources on which the industrial base depends. When the resources have been depleted, a precipitous collapse of the economic system will result, manifested in massive unemployment, decreased food production, and a decline in population as the death rate soars. There is no smooth transition, no gradual slowing down of activity; larger amounts of the depleting resources until they are gone.

There were some limitations to the model, as the success of it depended on both the quality of data and the capabilities of the computer.

The Club of Rome believe that there will be an end to our current relationship with resources and population and this status has to change if we are to reach global equilibrium.