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Club of Rome (and Limits to Growth)
The idea of limits to growth has been among the most influential and controversial notions in environmental debates. For many greens, infinite growth on a finite planet is clearly impossible. Yet governments, business, most economists, and even mainstream environmental groups have tended to resist such conclusions, favoring the idea that economic growth can be decoupled from rising environmental impacts.
The possibility of boundless expansion was a widely shared, modern article of faith until the Club of Rome called it into question. Founded in 1968 by Italian industrialist Aurelio Peccei and Scottish scientist Alexander King, the club's original members consisted of a small, international group from the worlds of science, industry, diplomacy, academia, and civil society. Their concerns over the “predicament of mankind” included the dominance of ...
- Anthropocentrism
- Biocentrism
- Brundtland Report
- Club of Rome (and Limits to Growth)
- Death of Environmentalism, The
- Earth Charter
- Earth Day 1970
- Earth Summit
- Earthlife Africa
- Ecological Crisis, The Historical Roots of Our
- Endangered Species Act
- Environmental Ethics Journal
- Environmental Policy Act, National
- Global Greens Charter
- Green Altruism
- Land Ethic
- Love Canal, Carter Administration and the
- Philosophy and Environmental Crisis
- Roosevelt, Theodore
- Silent Spring
- Tragedy of the Commons
- United Nations Conference on the Human Environment
- United Nations Millennium Development Goals
- United Tasmania Group
- Wilderness Act of 1964
- Attfield, Robin
- Bailey, Liberty Hyde
- Berry, Reverend Fr. Thomas
- Berry, Wendell
- Bookchin, Murray
- Borlaug, Norman
- Callicott, J. Baird
- Carson, Rachel
- d'Eaubonne, Françoise
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo
- Fuller, Buckminster
- Gandhi, Mohandas
- Gore, Jr., Al
- Haeckel, Ernst
- Hargrove, Dr. Eugene C.
- Hayes, Denis
- Leopold, Aldo
- Lovelock, James Ephraim
- Marsh, George Perkins
- Mathews, Freya
- Muir, John
- Mumford, Lewis
- Naess, Arne
- Passmore, John
- Pinchot, Gifford
- Rolston, Holmes, III
- Singer, Peter
- Steffen, Alex
- Taylor, Paul W.
- Thoreau, Henry David
- Warren, Karen
- Animal Ethics
- Anthropocentrism
- Biocentric Egalitarianism
- Biocentrism
- Civic Environmentalism
- Climate Ethics
- Deep Ecology
- Deep Green Theory
- Ecocentrism
- Ecofascism
- Ecofeminism/Ecological Feminism
- Economism
- Ecophenomenology
- Environmental Pluralism
- Gaia Hypothesis
- Green Party Ethical System, Four Pillars of the
- Hannover Principles
- Human Values and Sustainability
- Instrumental Value
- Intergenerational Justice
- International Association of Environmental Philosophy
- Intrinsic Value
- Kantian Philosophy and the Environment
- Marshall, Alan (Libertarian Extension)
- Pragmatism
- Strong and Weak Sustainability
- Sustainability, Seventh Generation
- Sustainability and Distributive Justice
- Ten Key Values of the Greens
- Utilitarianism
- Adaptive Management
- Agriculture
- Biodiversity
- Bright Green Environmentalism
- Business Ethics, Shades of Green
- China
- Conservation
- Cost-Benefit Analysis
- Democracy
- Development, Ethical Sustainability and
- Ecological Restoration
- Ecology
- Ecopedagogy and Ecodidactics
- Ecopolitics
- Environmental Justice
- Environmental Policy
- Ethics and Science
- Genetic Engineering
- Globalization
- Green Liberalism
- Green Party, German
- Greenwashing
- Precautionary Principle
- Preservation
- Sierra Club
- Social Ecology
- Sustainability and Spiritual Values
- Technology
- United Nations Environment Programme
- Urbanization
- Carbon Offsets
- Consumption, Business Ethics and
- Consumption, Consumer Ethics and
- Ecological Footprint
- Ethical Vegetarianism
- Local Food Movement
- Marketing, Consumption Ethics and
- Organic Trend
- Sustainability, Business Ethics and
- Sustainability, Consumer Ethics and
- Western “Way of Life”
- Environmental Justice Ecology, Radical
- Environmental Law
- Environmental Law and Policy Center
- Environmental Values and Law
- Forest Preservation Laws
- Green Ethics in the Legal Community
- Green Law Trends
- Green Laws and Incentives
- Post-Construction Landscape Laws
- San Pedro Border Fence
- Should Trees Have Standing?
- Urban Tree Management Ordinances
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