Original version

BBC World Service Online

Global Business

Factual: Money

Insights into the business world from the BBC.

Global Business: Club of Rome: Not Built in One Day

25/06/2011

Club of Rome: Not Built in One Day

BBC World Service - Global Business, Club of Rome: Not Built in One Day

Peter Day hears from Dr Eberhard Von Koerber, co-president of the The Club of Rome

Peter Day is in St Gallen, where he hears from Dr Eberhard Von Koerber, co-president of The Club of Rome and Vice-President  of the Wittenberg Centre for Global Ethics.

In this week's Global Business, Peter Day is in St Gallen, Switzerland where he hears from Dr Eberhard Von Koerber, co-president of The Club of Rome. 

Established in 1968 this group of professionals from science, politics and industry, published their report The Limits to Growth, commissioned form a group of  experts at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which expressed their concerns over short term thinking in international affairs and unbridled consumption of the worlds' natural resources. 

Limits to Growth predicted that in the foreseeable future, some vital raw materials would start running out.

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Global Business

Club of Rome: Not Built in One Day

Genres

Brand

BBC World Service Online

About BBC World Service