Chapter 6/E-The Club of Rome “The Earth has cancer and the cancer is Man." -Club of Rome, Mankind at the Turning Point, 1974
"… the resultant ideal sustainable population is hence more than 500 million but less than one billion.” -Club of Rome, Goals for Mankind, 1976.
The next entry into the Round Table Group was the Club of Rome, which was conceived during The Conference on Conditions of World Order. This meeting was held from June 12-19, 1965 at the Villa Serbelloni in Bellagio, Italy, sponsored by the Congress for Cultural Freedom, with a grant from the Ford Foundation and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Three years later in April, 1968, a think-tank of financiers, scientists, economists, politicians, heads of state, and industrialists from ten different countries again met in Italy, at David Rockefeller's private estate in Bellagio, Italy, at the request of Aurelio Peccei. Peccei was an Italian industrialist who had close ties to Fiat and the Olivetti Corporation. He claimed to have solutions for world peace and prosperity, which could be accomplished through a one world government. The Club of Rome (COR) was initially established with a membership of 75 prominent scientists, industrialists, and economists from 25 countries. "Democracy is not a panacea. It cannot organize everything and it is unaware of its own limits. These facts must be faced squarely. Sacrilegious though this may sound, democracy is no longer well suited for the tasks ahead. The complexity and the technical nature of many of today’s problems do not always allow elected representatives to make competent decisions at the right time." -Official quote from the Club of Rome
The Club of Rome’s first publication, titled “The Limits to Growth”, was published in 1972 and dealt with the Illuminati-propagated issue of worldwide overpopulation. It stated that "if the world's consumption patterns and population growth continued at the same high rates of the time, the earth would strike its limits within a century." The book, which sold 12 million copies in 27 languages, described their vision for the world:
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