: About Me

How many people know that the Club of Rome's 1972 book "The Limits To Growth" compiled by Friends of the Earth, predicted that 2008 was the crunch point when a whole lot of our environmental challenges would hit us squarely between the eyes? Okay, there was a riposte called "Re-think" which soothed the troubled, soon-to-be-smashed brow. Our human genius would find ways of replacing our reliance on oil when finally we have extracted the last drop from beneath the earth - or above it in desert sands.The Club of Rome had used some very early computer technology to capture all the known data r...