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Goals for global society: A third‐generation project for the Club of Rome

Rudolf W. Knoepfel (President of The Solvay American Corporation in New York City)

Planning Review

ISSN: 0094-064X

Article publication date: 1 March 1975

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Abstract

Modeling of long‐range world trends began in a rigorous way in 1968, when the Club of Rome initiated the Forrester and Meadows studies which resulted in the computer models Worlds 1, 2, and 3. Publication of the results in popular form in Limits to Growth catalyzed worldwide discussion of the finiteness of the earth with respect to explosive growth in population and technological civilization. While these first‐generation world models had a profound effect on how many people now view social progress and the future of mankind, they were criticized for being over aggregated and failing to take into account sufficient human factors, such as social and political organization, values, and the force of secular and religious traditions.

Citation

Knoepfel, R.W. (1975), "Goals for global society: A third‐generation project for the Club of Rome", Planning Review, Vol. 3 No. 3, pp. 12-23. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb053715

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