riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle) (07/27/84)
Funny, but the only place I've heard of the Club of Rome in recent
years has been from a very off-the-wall source: one of Lyndon
LaRouche's front organizations is his "Club of Life," an international
group founded to oppose the Club of Rome. LaRouche despises the CoR
because it subscribes to the "Malthusian" notion that the world and
its resources are finite; one of LaRouche's basic ideas is that Malthus
doesn't apply to humanity and that completely unrestricted population
growth is a positive good. (LaRouche also believes that any protection
of the environment whatsoever is counterproductive folly and probably
instigated by Moscow.)
I haven't heard of the "Club of Life" much in this country, but I saw
their leaflets spread around the student cafeterias of Munich last year
on a weekly basis. As with every other LaRouche organization I've
encountered, the ferocity with which they push their rather bizarre
ideas is pretty scary.
--- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.")
--- {ihnp4,harvard,seismo,gatech,ctvax}!ut-sally!riddlecolonel@gloria.UUCP (George Sicherman) (07/28/84)
[Will it help my bridge game?] The "Club of Rome" sounds like a perfect illustration of Wyndham Lewis's observation that modern science is nothing more than the principle of destruction. -- Col. G. L. Sicherman ...seismo!rochester!rocksanne!rocksvax!sunybcs!gloria!colonel