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The Club of Rome, System Dynamics & Limits to Growth
Originally posted on sciy.org by Ron Anastasia on Wed 11 Apr 2007 12:31 PM PDT
Part of my grad school study was with the System Dynamics computer simulation group under Prof. Jay W. Forrester at MIT. Working with the Club of Rome sponsored "Limits to Growth" global modeling project awakened me to the complex "world problematique" rushing tsunami-like out of humanity's future. This realization led to my ongoing concern with sustainability issues, which in turn was part of my motivation for co-founding SCIY. -- I'm happy to see that the Club of Rome continues with its important work. ~ ron
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The Club of Rome’s essential mission is to act as an independent, global, non official catalyst of change. Thus it aims at the following:
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The identification of the most crucial problems facing humanity, their
analysis in the global context of the world-wide problematique, the
research of future alternative solutions and the elaboration of
scenarios for the future. |
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The communication of such problems to the most important public and private decision-makers as well as to the general public.
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The Club of Rome is governed by three complementary principles:
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A global perspective in examining issues with the awareness that the
increasing interdependence of nations and the globalisation of problems
pose predicaments beyond the capacity of individual countries. |
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Holistic thinking and the seeking of a deeper understanding of
complexity within the contemporary problems – political, social,
economic, technological, environmental, psychological and cultural
–which the Club of Rome terms ‚the world problematique‘. |
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An interdisciplinary and long-term perspective focussing on the choices
and policies determining the destiny of future generations, because
this perspective is too often neglected by governments and other
decision-makers on account of short term interests. |
Click here for the ‘Declaration of the Club of Rome’, adopted by the Executive Committee on April 25, 1996 in Bruxelles.
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