2052. A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years A Report to the Club of Rome Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the Limits to Growth20131Jorgen Randers. 2052. A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years A Report to the Club of Rome Commemorating the 40th Anniversary of the Limits to Growth. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing 2012. xvi+392 pp., ISBN: 978‐1‐60358‐421‐0

2013 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 181-182
Author(s):  
Udo E. Simonis
Keyword(s):  
40Th Anniversary ◽  
Limits To Growth ◽  
White River ◽  
White River Junction ◽  
Club Of Rome

scholarly journals Reseñas

2005 ◽  
pp. 523-527
Author(s):  
José Juan Romero Rodríguez, S.I. ◽  
Adolfo Rodero Franganillo
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Publishing Company ◽  
Limits To Growth ◽  
White River ◽  
White River Junction

Reseñas de las obras: MOORE LAPPÉ, F.; COLLINS, J.; ROSSET, P.; ESPARZA, L. (2005), Doce mitos sobre el hambre. Un enfoque esperanzador para la agricultura y la alimentación del siglo XXI, Barcelona, Icaria–Antrazyt, 311 págs. MEADOWS, D; RANDERS, J.; MEADOWS, D. (2004), Limits to Growth. The 30–Year Update, Vermont, Chelsea Green Publishing Company, White River Junction, 338 págs. LÓPEZ CASASNOVAS, G. (Dir.) (2005), Envejecimiento y dependencia. Situación actual y retos de futuro, Barcelona, Ed. Caixa Catalunya. GÓMEZ GIL, C. (2004), Las ONG en la globalización. Estrategias, cambios y transformaciones de las ONG en la sociedad global, Barcelona, Ed. Icaria, 230 págs. UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT (UNCTAD) (2005), Trade and Development Report, 2005, Nueva York y Ginebra, Naciones Unidas, 204 págs.

scholarly journals The future of the Western world: the OECD and the Interfutures project

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 126-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jenny Andersson
Keyword(s):  
International Economic Order ◽  
World Market ◽  
Resource Extraction ◽  
Western World ◽  
Research Committee ◽  
Limits To Growth ◽  
The Future ◽  
Club Of Rome ◽  
Industrial Societies

AbstractIn 1975, the OECD created a research committee entitled ‘Interfutures. Research project into the development of the advanced industrial societies in harmony with the developing world’. The purpose of Interfutures was to examine how the new tools of futures research could be put to use in order to shape strategies for dealing with a new phenomenon of ‘interdependence’, and to set out a ‘long-term vision’ of the Western world. This article argues that Interfutures was appointed in order to draft an alternative image of the future to two radical visions of the early 1970s. The first was the so-called New International Economic Order. The second was the 1972 Club of Rome report,The limits to growth. As a response to these two visions, Interfutures presented a vision of globalization as a process oriented around an expanding world market, piloted by Western interests and continued resource extraction.

Nitrogen, Threat or Benefaction? The Spectre at the Feast

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. J. Leigh
Keyword(s):  
Natural Process ◽  
Energy Crisis ◽  
Limits To Growth ◽  
Current State ◽  
The World ◽  
Club Of Rome ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Many ◽  
Potential Food ◽  
Growing Population

The world today is a very different place from what it was in about 1900. It is a very different place from what it was even in the 1960s. This is not to say that the worries and preoccupations of 1900 and the 1960s have just disappeared. Rather, they still remain, but as a consequence of the activities of the Club of Rome and the many similar organisations that have arisen since then, people are much more conscious of them. The famous energy crisis of 1973, provoked by the rapid quadrupling of the price of oil, hardly a natural process, served to push such considerations to the fore. The simple questions that were once posed (such as “How shall we feed a growing population?”) have been joined to many others. Is there a limit to population growth beyond which the potential food supply will really be exceeded? Is there a limit beyond which the perturbation of the environment by human actions will produce changes that will irretrievably damage both people and the environment? Are there really limits to growth? What can we reasonably do that will not produce disaster? This is a far cry from the Victorian and even old-fashioned capitalistic and Soviet attitudes that seemed then and still seem to assume that humans, being at the pinnacle of evolution (or, alternatively, being placed at the pinnacle of animal life by God), were free to exploit Earth and its resources as much as seemed necessary. Even to attempt to answer such questions, it is necessary to understand what the current state of Earth and the environment really are, and this is not simply a matter of looking out of the window and making a snap judgement, or even looking out of several windows over a certain period. It is necessary to do serious research and then attempt to make sound judgements. This is no trivial matter because often there is little objective guidance as to what constitutes a sound judgement. The idea that human activities are upsetting the current equilibrium between people and the environment is based upon a misconception.

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