The First Global Revolution: A Report by the Council of The Club of Rome [Paperback]

Alexander King (Author), Bertrand Schneider (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 3, 1991

In the 1970s, the Club of Rome launched the book "The Limits to Growth". Essential reading for all those concerned about the future of the planet, the book was translated into 37 languages. Now, President Emeritus Alexander King and Secretary General Bertrand Schneider review global problems 20 years on, offering both a warning and an approach to a possible solution to world problems. Topics covered by this book include the need for the world to convert from a military to a civil economy, the recognition of the disastrous short-term effects of exploitation by First World countries of Third World poverty and need, and the containment of global warming: the need to reduce global emissions of carbon dioxide, to encourage reforestation, to conserve traditional forms of energy and develop alternatives,

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Product Details

• Paperback: 286 pages
• Publisher: Pantheon Books; 1st edition (September 3, 1991)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0679738258
• ISBN-13: 978-0679738251
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #245,730 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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39 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Sometimes they level with us, May 30, 2007

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M. F. Hogan - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The First Global Revolution: A Report by the Council of The Club of Rome (Paperback)

A quote "In searching for a new enemy to unite us we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like, would fit the bill."

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The quote is real. page 86 in the pdf; page 75 in the actual pub., June 30, 2009

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Charles G. Harris (Boston MA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The First Global Revolution: A Report by the Council of The Club of Rome (Paperback)

I just wanted to confirm that the quote is real. Page 86 in the pdf; page 75 in the actual pub. However, there is a lot more info in the document. It is interesting to see how long these people have been trying to scheme to get a more centralized undemocratic method of controlling humanity.

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Global Baloney Goblins's "Gotcha" -- You're It, Humanity! Watch Out!, December 30, 2009

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G. Charles Steiner - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The First Global Revolution: A Report by the Council of The Club of Rome (Paperback)

This book, written in 1991, precedes the attack of September 11, 2001 and George Herbert Walker Bush's speech about a New World Order yet is part and parcel of an open conspiracy to control the entire globe through One World Governance on international, national, regional, provincial and local levels by creating fear of imminent catastrophe regarding the pseudo-scientific notion of global warming along with such other threats as pollution, over-population, poverty, and biological pandemics.

Speaking as if the purpose of the Plan were indeed noble, as if the authors and the Club of Rome were magnanimously concerned about freedom, human rights, and real men and women as against corrupt bureaucrats, corrupt governments, wars, greed and selfishness, the book plainly and scarily states that the world, being in such dire straits, aware, in particular, that Western civilization's values are crumbling, needs a "common enemy" to unite all of us inhabiting this planet. "[W]e came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill." It further states that because all these so-called dangers are caused by human intervention, the "real enemy" then is "humanity itself." [Page 115 of the first edition]

This open but conspiratorial plan acknowledges that there is no hard scientific data supporting "the idea" of global warming, although it asserts there is agreement (among whom?) about general "trends." [Page 50]. However, "the idea" serves as an excellent means of rousting all planetary citizens to become united under a kind of new religion whereby each individual is willing to sacrifice for the good of the whole -- in order to save humanity.

The implications for the Plan in this book are totally frightening and disturbing. The authors have spent a good deal of time finding means to use the right language and locate the precise reasons that could inflame a multiplicity of conflicting circumstances into a searing conflagration whereby individual dissenters of the Plan would be made to seem unforgivably nationalistic, greedy, selfish, reckless, and unethical should they reject worldwide collectivism, a one world governance established to help save man against himself. (Sustainable development, in the context of this book, means minimal materialism combined with obedience to and cooperation with the world state: your property rights are gone.)