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Club of Rome's "The First Global Revolution" book 1991
In 1991, the club published The First Global Revolution. It analyses the problems of humanity, calling these collectively... the "problematique". It notes that, historically, social or political unity has commonly been motivated by enemies in common: "The need for enemies seems to be a common historical factor. Some states have striven to overcome domestic failure and internal contradictions by blaming external enemies... Bring the divided nation together to face an outside enemy, either a real one, or else one invented for the purpose... In searching for a common enemy against whom we can unite, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like, would fit the bill. In their totality and their interactions these phenomena do constitute a common threat which must be confronted by everyone together. But in designating these dangers as the enemy, we fall into the trap... namely mistaking symptoms for causes. All these dangers are caused by human intervention in natural processes, and it is only through changed attitudes and behaviour that they can be overcome. The real enemy then is humanity itself." ~ Alexander King & Bertrand Schneider
Club of Rome's "Reinventing Prosperity" booklet 2016
Club of Rome garnered "serious criticism" in 2016 after promoting the idea of a one-child policy for industrialized countries, in its pamphlet titled Reinventing Prosperity. With PhD Reiner Klingholz, stating of the Club's pamphlet, "this is pure nonsense", as acting chairman of the Berlin Institute for Population and Development, an institute focused on sustainable development, citing the stable replacement rate of 2.1 [children per couple] not being met in Europe, at that time standing "already as low as 1.5"
Quoted from Source: Club of Rome on Wikipedia
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