The Club of Rome is an international Think Tank which addressed the public first in 1972 with the groundbreaking report
"Limits to Growth" by Donnella Meadows, Dennis Meadows and Jorgen Randers.
For the first time, computer based scenarios were used to describe various pathways to sustainable and unsustainable futures.
The report started an intensive discussion about the future development of humankind.
Today, National Associations
of the Club of Rome with altogether more than 1800 members are working
in an interdisciplinary way on the "World Problematique" - the complex set
of interconnected problems facing humanity. Therefore, their works covers a wide range of themes,
ecological, social and economic ones.
Following the tradition of the Club, which avoids administrative overhead (sometimes being called a non-governmental non-organisation)
The National Associations are working as networks of active individuals.
The Centre in Vienna coordinates their activities, provides the infrastructure for organizing
events and conducts
projects in cooperation with the Associations and the Club's Secretariat-General which is located in Winterthur.
" I consider the Club of Rome first of all an exciting
adventure of the spirit - the exploration and discovery
of man's condition in this age of his global empire....
If the Club of Rome may be credited with any merit,
it is to have been the first to rebel against this well
nigh suicidal ignorance. "
Aurelio Peccei (co-founder of the Club of Rome).
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