The Club of Rome

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The Club of Rome was founded in the late 1960s by Aurelio Peccei, an Italian industrialist and Alexander King with a group of colleagues from various countries but with similar concerns for the global future.

The following are abstracts from a paper entitled The Club of Rome - The New Threshold by Alexander King which was read into the Congressional records of the United States on Tuesday, March 20, 1973:

"The Club of Rome is:

• a group of world citizens, sharing a common concern for the future of humanity and acting merely as a catalyst to stimulate public debate, to sponsor investigations and analysis of the problematique and to bring these to the attention of decision makers".

"The Club of Rome is not:

• a club devoted exclusively to problems of industrial societies, attempting to find solutions to the difficulties of affluence, but a group concerned with the world system as a whole and with the disparities it includes.
• a group of futurologists, but of individuals who realise the necessity of attacking now longer term and fundamental problems which are difficult to approach with our present methods of government and which could give rise to irreversible situations.
• a political organisation, either of the right or of the left, but a free assembly of individuals, seeking to find a more objective and comprehensive basis for policy-making.
• a body devoted to public propaganda for change - although, should we succeed in a better delineation of the elements of the problematique, we are convinced that our results should be made known universally through appropriate national and international organisations and the media."

Since the death of Aurelio Peccei and the retirement of Alexander King, the Club of Rome developed an updated Charter under its President, Ricardo Diez-Hochleitner and its Secretary General, Dr. Bertrand Schneider. In November 2000, HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal succeeded Ricardo Diez-Hochleitner as President of the Club of Rome. At the same time, Ricardo Diez-Hochleitner was appointed Honorary President. Dr. Bertrand Schneider has left the Club of Rome, and in April 1999 Uwe Moeller was appointed Secretary General.

Those requiring further information should contact The Club of Rome Secretariat at mail@clubofrome.org

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