Cassandra.

The First Global Revolution: A report by the Council of the Club of Rome (1991) by Alexander King and Bertrand Schneider.No generation has ever liked its prophets, least of all those who point out the consequences of bad judgement and lack of foresight.The Club of Rome can take pride in the fact that it has been unpopular for the last twenty years. I hope it will continue for many years to come to spell out the unpalatable facts and to settle the conscience of the smug and apathetic.Price Philip, Duke of EdinburghMessage to the delegates at the Twentieth Anniversary Conference of the Club of Rome, Paris, 1988.
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