¶ Club of Rome: Limits to Growth
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Club of Rome: Limits to Growth:
“organized capitalists’ selfishness to justify to the world public why their wealth would be unable to do anything about the third world. The initial Smithsonian Institution announcement of the ‘Limits to Growth’ was based on work done by an MIT professor of computer sciences who was given his input data by other MIT specialists. I and many others, particularly our World Game group, were able to make well-documented and fortunately effective public announcement that the Club of Rome’s ‘Limits to Growth’ pronouncement was a sadly ignorant statement. For instance, its computer programmers cited only the very small remaining percentages of the world’s unmined metal ore reserves and were manifestly unaware that the metals on our Earth are continually being melted out of their last use and being recirculated in amounts greatly exceeding the tonnage of metals being newly mined and added into the cumulative circulatory system approximately 3 to 1, while all the while the interim gains in technological ‘know how’ take care of ever greater numbers of humans per each pound of recirculating metal or other chemical substance into which technology invests its ever improving know-how, with the result that it is now engineeringly feasible to take care of all humanity at an unprecedentedly”
