12 February 2018 - Current worldwide trends are not sustainable. The Club of Rome’s warnings published in the book Limits to Growth are still valid. Remedies that are acceptable for the great majority tend to make things worse. We seem to be in a philosophical crisis....
12 February 2018 - Humanity is in a race with catastrophe. Is the future one of global warming, 65 million migrants fleeing failed states, soaring inequality, and grid-locked politics? Or one of empowered entrepreneurs and innovators building a world that works for...
31 March 2017 - "The Circular Economy and Benefits for Society: Jobs and Climate, Clear Winners in an Economy based on Renewable Energy and Resource Efficiency" is a study report drafted at the request of The Club of Rome. Its central theme is how to greatly enhance...
12 February 2017 - The essence of this book can be found in a line written by the ancient Roman Stoic Philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca: “Fortune is of sluggish growth, but ruin is rapid”. This sentence summarizes the features of the phenomenon that we call...
12 February 2016 - The biggest challenges facing the rich world today are persistent unemployment, widening income inequality, and accelerating climate change. Until now, most of the solutions to these problems have been politically unacceptable, in a world marked by...
12 February 2015 - Humans live through stories, says David Korten, and the stories that now govern our society have set us on a path to certain self-destruction. In this profound book, Korten shares the results of his search for a story that reflects the fullness of...
12 February 2015 - In 1972, The Limits to Growth helped people understand that world resources are limited. Soon after, people became aware of threats to the world's rainforests, the biggest terrestrial repositories of biodiversity and essential regulators of global...
12 February 2015 - Since its independence in 1947, India has made enormous progress. More people than ever before have longer, healthier and more fulfilling lives. Rapid gains in agriculture, industry, energy production and infrastructure have brought the benefits of...
12 February 2014 - As we dig, drill and excavate to unearth the planet's mineral bounty, the resources we exploit from ores, veins, seams and wells are gradually becoming exhausted. Mineral treasures that took millions, or even billions, of years to form are now being...
12 February 2012 - Forty years ago, The Limits to Growth addressed the question of how humans would adapt to the physical limitations of planet Earth. It predicted that during the first half of the 21st century the human ecological footprint would stop growing-either...
