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], well known U.S. author and film producer, criticizes the Club's empty prediction--analyzing the effects of scientific misinformation on society-- that the world would exhaust its supply of raw materials by the 1990s in a speech given at the Washington Center for Complexity and Public Policy; entitled "Fear, Complexity, Environmental Management in the 21st Century." ], well known U.S. author and film producer, criticizes the Club's empty prediction--analyzing the effects of scientific misinformation on society-- that the world would exhaust its supply of raw materials by the 1990s in a speech given at the Washington Center for Complexity and Public Policy; entitled "Fear, Complexity, Environmental Management in the 21st Century."

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The Club of Rome is a global think tank that deals with a variety of international political issues.

The foundation of the Club of Rome

It was founded in April 1968 by Aurelio Peccei, an Italian scholar and industrialist, and Alexander King, a Scottish scientist. It raised considerable public attention with its report The Limits to Growth, which has sold 30 million copies in more than 30 translations, making it the best selling environmental book in world history. Published in 1972, it predicted that economic growth could not continue indefinitely because of the limited availability of natural resources, particularly oil. The 1973 oil crisis increased public concern about this problem.

At that time, the Club of Rome had an informal "inner group" of six, but no corporate existence. The inner group consisted of:

Organization

According to its website, it is composed of "scientists, economists, businessmen, international high civil servants, heads of state and former heads of state from all five continents who are convinced that the future of humankind is not determined once and for all and that each human being can contribute to the improvement of our societies."

The current President is Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan. Other active members include: Benjamin Bassin, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, Juan Luis Cebrian, Orio Giarini, Talal Halman, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, José Sarney, Javier Solana, Mugur Isărescu , Kamal Hossain, Esko Kalimo, Ashok Khosla, Martin Lees, Roberto Peccei, Maria Ramirez Ribes, Victor A. Sadovnichy, Adam Schaff, Keith Suter, Majid Tehranian, Raoul Weiler, Anders Wijkman, and Mikhail Gorbachev.

The Annual Meeting of 2005 took place in Norfolk, Virginia, at Old Dominion University. It was held for the first time with members of the young think tank tt30.

Offshoots

In 2001 the Club of Rome created the tt30, a youth think tank for people around the age of 30. Its Internet site is here.

There are national CoR associations in many nations, including a number of European nations, USA, Canada, Mexico, Brazil, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, and Asian nations. These associations analyze national problems in terms of the same factors and give advice nationally to decision-makers.

Criticism

Critics have charged the Club of Rome with "Neo-Malthusianism" and strong elitism in its membership, which interlocks with European power elite groups such as Bilderberg and to a lesser degree Anglo-American elite members.

Conspiracy theorists occasionally link the Club with various world conspiracies, notably the New World Order.

Michael Crichton, well known U.S. author and film producer, criticizes the Club's empty prediction--analyzing the effects of scientific misinformation on society-- that the world would exhaust its supply of raw materials by the 1990s in a speech given at the Washington Center for Complexity and Public Policy; entitled "Fear, Complexity, Environmental Management in the 21st Century."

See also

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