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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />professional ecologists have been saying for the last decade. <br />meaningful dialogue on growth since its professionalism makes <br /> <br />.6. <br /> <br />I' <br /> <br />method what environmentalists and <br />report can be a springboard for a <br />legitimate. <br /> <br />The report ;s incomplete and inadequate in some respects (as its authors admit), and those who wish to avoid <br />dealing with its blunt reality will undoubtedly dwell on this fact. Club of Rome members, themselves. were not <br />unanimous in accepting all its conclusions. However. the Executive Committee of the Club has agreed on the fol- <br />lowing points among others;' <br /> <br />1. We are convinced that realization of the qu.antitative T'estraints of the wOl'ld enViT'Olunent and of <br />the tragic consequ.ences of an overshoot is essential to the initiation of new forms of thinking <br />that will lead to a fundconental T'evision of human behavior. . . <br /> <br />Hopefully, the <br />the subject <br /> <br />2. We Q1:'e fUI'ther convinced that demographic pl'eSSUl'e in the wOl'ld has alT'eady attained such a high <br />level and is mOl'eove:r so unequally distPibuted, that this alone must compel mankind to seek a state <br />of equilibrium on ou:r planet. . . <br /> <br />3. We recognize that world equilibriwn can become a f"eality only if the lot of the so-called developi~lg <br />countPies is substantially improved, both in absolute terms and l'elative to the economically <br />developed nations, and we affirm that this improvement can be achieved ollly thf"ough a global <br />stmtegy. . . <br /> <br />6. We are unanimously convinced that rapid, f"adical redressment of the present unbalanced and <br />dangerously deterio:rating wOl,ld situation is the pnmary task facing humcmity. . . <br /> <br />10. We affirm fi~lally that any delibel'ate attempt to l'each a :rational and mu1uT"'~ng state of equilib1'ium <br />by planned measures, rather than by chance 01' catastl'ophe. ,r:rust ultimately be founded on a basic <br />change of values wu1 goals at individual, national and world levels. <br /> <br />A frequently raised criticism of limits to Growth is that it raises a grim spectre but offers no concrete <br />suggestions for meeting the impending crisis. It is the conviction of the Rm1COE staff that the primary <br />value of this report is to force people throughout the world to begin facing ecological realities. Only <br />children believe that they live in a world where there are no constraints to their behavior limits <br />to Growth confronts man on the planet earth with the single imperative of maturity. ------ <br /> <br /> <br />All graphs and quoted material are reprinted from <br />The Limits to Growth, A Report for The Club of Rome's <br />Project on the Predicament of Mankind, by Donella H. <br />Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jorgen Randers, William <br />W. Behrens III, with permission of Potomac Associates <br />and Universe Books. <br /> <br />Pninted on ~ecycted papeA. <br />