Club of Rome

The Club of Rome is a global think tank (An independent administrative entity recognized as an organization or sole individual possessing a extraordinary degree of socio-economic influence that actively conducts research and engages in numerous politically motivated endeavors for the express purpose of engineering a pronounced increase in the incidence of advocacy [Defined as a sociopolitical instrument whose sole objective is one predicated on the degree of influence generated through the legislative process by individual or organized conglomerates that specialize in public policy and resource allocation initiatives within political, economic, or social systems/ institutions. Advocacy itself may be motivated from moral, ethical, or faith-based principles/ standards through which assets of interest are protected. Lobbying is a form of advocacy created with the intention of influencing decisions made by legislators and officials comprising government institutions, by individuals, other legislators, fiscally motivated constituencies, or advocacy groups on behalf of special interest organizations]) that deals with a variety of international affairs. Founded in April 1968, the Club of Rome garnered considerable public scrutiny in 1972 with the publication of a lengthy written memorandum entitled The Limits to Growth (A contrived literary dissertation formulated as a means to illustrate the consequences of a rapidly burgeoning global populace relative to the diminished existentiality of finite resources). Its principal authors were Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jørgen Randers, and William H. Behrens III. The aforementioned narrative utilized the World3 Model (A computer generated simulation of interactions coordinated under numerous experimental variables in concordance with population disparities, expansion of industry, food production, and preexistent ecological constraints whose antecedent creationists are listed as follows: Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, and Jørgen Randers) as a means to further demonstrate this perceived imbalance.

Club of Rome Limits to Growth World3 Model

Protracted elements relevant to the central thesis of the written compilation echo various concerns and predictions in accordance with numerous scientific studies whose primary basis relies solely on the research of the Reverend Thomas Robert Malthus (Malthus authored the novel piece, An Essay on the Principle of Population, whose written genesis attained a measure of precedence in the year 1798. The aforementioned anthological omnibus has been acknowledged as the most influential work of its era. Its 6th Edition was independently cited as a prominent sphere of influence by both Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace in the development of theories relevant to the process of natural selection [The process by which genetically inherited attributes subsequently lose/ attain a greater sense of commonality within the principal fabric of the global population via the procession of successive generations throughout the genealogical spectrum. Natural selectionary processes are key components in the study of evolution]. A key portion of the book was dedicated to what is now known as Malthus' Iron Law of Population. This theory suggested that growing population rates would contribute to a rising supply of labor that would inevitably lower wages. In essence, Malthus feared that continued population growth would lend itself to poverty). Five variables were examined in correlation with the original formulated model, predicated on the assumptions that exponential growth accurately expresses such patterns of increase, and that the correspondent ability of technology to facilitate a greater degree of availability of resources demonstrates a linear proclivity. These variables are: world population, industrialization, pollution, food production, and resource depletion. The authors intended to explore the possibility of a sustainable feedback pattern that would be achieved by altering growth trends among each of the five specified distinctions. The following statement illustrates their commitment to these precepts, equating overpopulation with the incidence of climatological anomalies on a planetary scale:

 

 

The club states that its mission is "to act as a global catalyst for change through the identification and analysis of the crucial problems facing humanity and the communication of such problems to the most important public and private decision makers as well as to the general public." Since July 1, 2008, the organization has its principal headquarters in Winterthur, Switzerland.

The cinematic entries below this expansive discourse further elaborate on the nature of this organization, with the first offering insight into its sister appendage - The Committee of 300: