Club Of Rome - The First Global Revolution (1991)

Book Description

Published 1991 – President Emeritus of the Club of Rome Alexander King and Secretary General Bertrand Schneider offer both a warning and an approach to a possible solution to world problems. Topics covered by this book include the need for the world to convert from a military to a civil economy, the recognition of the disastrous short-term effects of exploitation by First World countries of Third World poverty and need, and the containment of global warming: the need to reduce global emissions of carbon dioxide, to encourage reforestation, to conserve traditional forms of energy and develop alternatives.

 

Chapters 

 
I. A Whirlwind of Change
II. Some Areas of Acute Concern
III. The International Mismanagement of the World Economy
IV. Intimations of Solidarity
V. The Vacuum
VI. The Human Malaise (Conclusion: The Challenge)
VII. The Three Immediacies
VIH. Governance and the Capacity to Govern