Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ut-sally.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!tektronix!hplabs!hao!seismo!ut-sally!riddle From: riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle) Newsgroups: net.politics,net.misc Subject: Re: Club of Rome ("People organizing to pursue their beliefs") Message-ID: <2876@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: Thu, 26-Jul-84 22:16:13 EDT Article-I.D.: ut-sally.2876 Posted: Thu Jul 26 22:16:13 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 28-Jul-84 21:17:57 EDT References: <2587@harpo.UUCP> <145@intelob.UUCP> Organization: U. of Tx. at Houston-in-the-Hills Lines: 19 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!riddle