06 September 2023 - Humanity’s clock is ticking painfully loud. As never before in the history of human beings, today we face existential risks including the potential of human extinction. Two such risks stand tall: Climate Change and Artificial Intelligence (AI) with...
25 July 2023 - Several years ago Vegard Beyer and I met at a summer school organised by The Club of Rome. That is where we first learned about the landmark study it had commissioned: 1972’s The Limits to Growth. The report warned that unfettered economic growth could...
22 June 2023 - In our first instalment of the Q&A series with authors of the Limits and Beyond, we talked to Ugo Bardi, the co-editor of the book, a member of the Club of Rome and a professor at the University of Florence. Bardi touches on the legacy of The Limits...
31 May 2023 - Fifty years have passed since The Club of Rome published The Limits to Growth. The report was a sharp critique of the notion of material growth as eternal and predicted increasing problems as a consequence of rapidly growing populations and economies....
21 September 2022 - Despite its dominance as an indicator of progress, GDP was never intended to measure a society’s overall health. Rather, it was intended to measure society’s economic activity level in monetary terms - as the value of the total output of goods and...
14 July 2022 - Because the changes needed to achieve sustainable well-being for everyone are so big, they require determined social movements with wide participation. But while history shows that inertia and defeatism can become self-fulfilling, it also shows that...
07 June 2022 - Fifty years ago, Italian business leaders in the Club of Rome gave a jolt to the world in their path-breaking report The Limits to Growth. That thought leadership continues today as Italian business leaders launch Regeneration 2030, a powerful call for...
30 May 2022 - Fifty years ago, a team of MIT scientists identified that human decision-making was luring our entire population slowly but inexorably toward environmental disaster. Through the first ever computer model of the world, they showed that the relentless...
27 May 2022 - On 2 and 3 June 2022, Stockholm hosted an international environmental meeting with the theme: A healthy planet for the prosperity of all – our responsibility, our opportunity. Stockholm+50 will commemorate the 1972 United Nations Conference on the Human...
17 May 2022 - My research went viral last summer. I found out via a friend’s text, jokingly accusing me of “announcing the end of the world.” For several days, headlines on major US news pages declared that my research proved we are on the brink of collapse. A few...
