Political Science · Political Theory
The Club of Rome's report 'The Limits to Growth' was published in which year?
A1962
B1970
C1971
D1972 ✓ Correct
Correct answer: (D) 1972 — The Limits to Growth was published in 1972, so the answer is 1972.
Explanation
★The Limits to Growth was published in 1972, so the answer is 1972.
★The Club of Rome commissioned it as a study of long term global trends.
★It used computer modelling of population, resources, pollution and industrial output.
★It warned that unchecked growth on a finite planet would lead to collapse.
★The report gave a major boost to the environmental movement of the 1970s.
★Rachel Carson's Silent Spring of 1962 had earlier alerted the world to pollution.
★The Limits to Growth made the idea of ecological limits central to green thought.
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