In the 1970s, the Club of Rome launched the book "The Limits to Growth". Essential reading for all those concerned about the future of the planet, the book was translated into 37 languages. Now "The First Global Revolution" reviews global problems 20 years on, offering both a warning and an approach to a possible solution to world problems. Topics covered by this book include the need for the world to convert from a military to a civil economy, the containment of global warming and the recognition of the disastrous short-term effects of exploitation by First World countries of Third World poverty and need.
- ISBN10 0679738258
- ISBN13 9780679738251
- Publish Date 3 September 1991
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 18 October 2003
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Random House USA Inc
- Imprint Pantheon Books Inc
- Format Paperback
- Pages 259
- Language English