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...
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