The First Global Revolution is a book written by Alexander King and Bertrand Schneider, and published by Pantheon Books in 1991. The book follows up the earlier 1972 work-product from the Club of Rome titled The Limits to Growth. The tagline of "The First Global Revolution" is, A Report by the Council of the Club of Rome. The book was intended as a blueprint for the 21st century putting forward a strategy for world survival at the onset of what they called the world's first global revolution.[1]
The First Global Revolution
First Global Revolution Book Front Cover.jpg
Cover of first edition (paperback)
Author
Alexander King and Bertrand Schneider
Cover artist
Fearn Cutler (1991 First Edition)
Country
United States
Language
English
Genre
Non Fiction
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Publication date
1991
Media type
Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages
259 pp
ISBN
0-679-73825-8
Preceded by
The Limits to Growth
Contents
Overview
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This section contains weasel words: vague phrasing that often accompanies biased or unverifiable information.
Many of the members of the Club of Rome are seen as Elites, and critics[who?] argue passages in the book looking at how to unite divided nations by motivating them to rally around a new common fabricated enemy are clear indicators the work is conspiratorial in nature. In one passage the authors conjecture about new needed enemies or rally points for global society, "either a real one or else one invented for the purpose." Critics[who?] argue that statements like the previous made the book conspiratorial. Although, this kind of viewpoint can be seen as conspiratorial in one interpretation, it can also be seen as simply a group of well-intentioned geopolitical leaders and academics like Henry Kissinger "thinking outside the box" and exploring how to prevent shortfalls in the global governance models of the nineteenth-century and the twentieth-century like balance of power. The failure of those older models are widely blamed by Henry Kissinger in his 1994 book Diplomacy with leading to the global human catastrophes of the First World War and the Second World War.[2]
The following passage is generally pointed-to as a smoking gun and radical in the extreme by critics[who?]:
Because of the sudden absence of traditional enemies, "new enemies must be identified."[2] "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….All these dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome. The real enemy then, is humanity itself."[3]