Club of Rome

The Club of Rome is an international association and nonpolitical bringing together scientists, the humanistic ones, economists, professors, national and international civils servant as well as industrialists of 53 countries, concerned about the complex problems to which must face all the companies, industrialized as well as under development. The members of the Club have like drank to seek practical solutions with the planetary problems. Its role especially remains to sensitize the top-ranking executives with the current planetary problems.

Founded the April 8th 1968 on the initiative of Aurelio Peccei, an Italian member of the board of directors of FIAT, and Alexander King, a scientist and Scottish civil servant, former scientific director of the economic Cooperation organization and development, it owes its name instead of its first meeting in Rome, with the Accademia dei Lincei.

The Report/ratio Meadows (1972), ordered by the Club of Rome, had as a French title Halte with the growth? , and was followed in 1974 of a second report/ratio: To leave the era of the wasting: tomorrow . Since, it produced more than 20 publications in a series called Rapports of the Club of Rome .

The ecological concept of Sustainable development and Empreinte turns into to Club of Rome a precursor. If, to the 21e century, the majority agrees to take into account the environmental problems, others do not accept these analyzes which imply many handing-over in question. They are caught some sometimes with the Club of Rome, at the origin of what they think of being catastrophism.

The club of Rome with moved its seat of Hamburg to Zurich in 2007.

Critical of the Meadows report/ratio

See also: Report/ratio Meadows

The conclusions of the report announce a rather catastrophic future for humanity if the latter continues not to be concerned with consequences of its activities on the Environnement. Much reproached him at the time a certain exaggeration in its forecasts, and one can check indeed today that those were not carried out yet, and due: the report/ratio does not envisage any exhaustion of resources or of catastrophic event before at least 2010, even in the most unfavourable scenario (and they are not whereas the premises of collapse).

It will be necessary to still wait a few decades to know if Meadows were right or not. According to the evolution of several factors affecting the use of the resources, collapse can take place into 2100, even later or even never (in the case of deep and fast change of our Modèle of Développement, strongly improbable compared to the dependence with the path of the contemporary economies). The model developed by Meadows and Al does not say another thing, being in no manner a static model predicting the exact date of the end of the world to the manner of a Cassandre.

Some badly interpétré the Meadows report/ratio while making him say that it envisaged an exhaustion of the close resources, which is not noted. It is important to note that these people, as more generally the majority of people who quote this report/ratio, did not read it.

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That is there thus in the “Report/ratio of the Club of Rome”? , Jean-Marc Jancovici

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