THE FIRST GLOBAL REVOLUTION

King, Alexander

ISBN 10: 0679738258 / ISBN 13: 9780679738251

Published by Pantheon, 1991

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Bibliographic Details

Title: THE FIRST GLOBAL REVOLUTION

Publisher: Pantheon

Publication Date: 1991

Binding: paperback

Condition: VeryGood

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Synopsis:

In the 1970s, the Club of Rome launched the book "The Limits to Growth". Essential reading for all those concerned about the future of the planet, the book was translated into 37 languages. Now, President Emeritus Alexander King and Secretary General Bertrand Schneider review global problems 20 years on, offering both a warning and an approach to a possible solution to world problems. Topics covered by this book include the need for the world to convert from a military to a civil economy, the recognition of the disastrous short-term effects of exploitation by First World countries of Third World poverty and need, and the containment of global warming: the need to reduce global emissions of carbon dioxide, to encourage reforestation, to conserve traditional forms of energy and develop alternatives,