Aurelio peccei biography of albert einstein

  • Proud of his technological mastery and eager to grasp its benefits, man has been burning the candle at both ends and despoiling the biosphere on which his.
  • King came across a speech given somewhere in South America by an Italian called Aurelio Peccei, who at that time was unknown to King.
  • Aurelio Peccei (1908-1984) was the principal founder of the Club of Rome, an organization whose 1972 report, “Limits to Growth” first called to.

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    The studies sponsored by the OECD Committee on Science and Technology Policy, during the years in which I was a Member, provided all the Members with data on the conduct of research and development in all the member countries and in some others, such as the Soviet Union. Indeed we were inundated with data which included both past performance and projections for the future, which, like most growth projections in my experience predicted exponential increase for the foreseeable future. I remember curves showing the projected increase in the number of scientists and engineers. My old friend and wartime colleague Vivian Bowden (now Lord Bowden), in a keynote address to an OECD seminar on Science and Public Policy, ridiculed such simplistic projections and the absurdity of planning on the basis of prolonged exponential growth. He was heard to remark that an extrapolation of the figures would show that every man, woman, child and domestic animal would eventually be engaged in R & D.

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    Note: these memoirs were written mainly for the information of members of the Canadian Association for the Club of Rome and naturally emphasise the role of Canadians. They are drawn only from the memory of one individual who happened to be there practically from the beginning. They do not profess to present a comprehensive or objective history of CACOR or the Club of Rome.

    Dr. Whitehead is a physicist, electronics engineer, consultant in science policy and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He has been a member of the Club of Rome since its formal incorporation in 1970. He was one of the founders of the Canadian Association of the Club of Rome (CACOR) in the period 1971 to 1974 and Chairman of the Board from 1976 to 1979. He was the editor of a CACOR Newsletter from 1971-1973 and has edited and desk-top-published the new series of CACOR Newsletters since 1987 and the Proceedings since their introduction in 1992. He relinquished the editorial and publishing activities i

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    Human Wrongs Watch

    By John Scales Avery*

    John Scales Avery, author of this book: We Need Their Voices Today! has generously granted Human Wrongs Watch permission to publish it in a series of chapters. This fryst vatten Chapter 17: Albert Einstein. The others will follow successively.

    Figure 17.1: Sigmund Freud and Albert Einstein (public domain). Their exchange of letters entitled “Why War?” deserves to be read by everyone concerned with the human future.

    “The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything except our ways of thinking, and thus we drift towards unparalleled catastrophes.”

    “I don’t know what will be used in the next world war, but the 4th will be fought with stones.”

    Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

    Besides being one of the greatest physicists of all time, Albert Einstein was a lifelong pacifist, and his thoughts on peace can speak eloquently to us today. We need his wisdom today, when the search for peace has become vital to our surviva