When the Club of Rome’s first report, The Limits to Growth, was published in 1972, the editor of the prestigious academic journal Nature was scathing. John Maddox criticised irresponsible scaremongering as ‘the Doomsday syndrome’ , but he was rowing against the tide.
Broadsheet media and broadcasters publicised the report, and the Club of Rome succeeded in making ecological alarm the priority of the United Nations.
Arguably, Limits to Growth was one of the most destructive books ever written, although it was more a work of fantasy than fact. The report, produced by a team at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), was a development of the…
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