Description
The major issue of our time has become the imminent threat of disaster owing to accelerating population growth and the rapid exhaustion of the earth's natural resources. When, in 1972, the Club of Rome report The Limits of Growth became an international best- seller, certain of its premises met with worldwide disagreement. But its predictions suddenly seemed all too possible when the energy crisis and world economic strife surfaced in ensuing months.
Then, in 1974, Putnam's published On Growth, a response to the Club of Rome's report, which Library Journal termed "a needed anti- dote for any library with The Limits of Growth on its shelf." The debate continues as Putnam's publishes ON GROWTH TWO.
In ON GROWTH Two, editor Willem L. Oltmans has collected, the reactions of noted foreign authorities, all from the Third World socialist and Eastern countries.
Forty-eight scientists, historians, philosophers, statesmen, and economists are interviewed in depth, updating and evaluating from the perspective of recent vents, in discussions permeated with a consciousness of social and political planning and structure. Such spokesmen as Indira Gandhi, Kuei Tanaka, Dr. Luรญs Echeverrรญa Alvarez, Professors A. M. Malukhin and Takahiko Noguchi address themselves to these most ominous problems. The result is a book of searching criticism, an invaluable study for everyone concerned with the problems of growth, resources, and sociopolitical and industrial development, an essential counterpart to the Club of Rome.
