Global Reordering: The Club of Rome’s Plan for a New Planetary Civilization - Since a 2018 meeting in Rome, the international think-tank, the Club of Rome, has been pushing for the creation of a new planetary civilization. The Emerging New Civilizations Initiative (ENCI) calls for a global paradigm shift “in our fundamental belief matrix, and the complex economic, financial, social systems underpinning our daily interactions.” Essentially, the New Civilization(s) Initiative can be seen as a new way of living on a planetary scale, where new ways of living on a local level add up to form a new global civilization.
In advocating this idea, the Club of Rome employs a typical collectivist argument that emphasizes the collective over the individual, or to put it another way, the “we” over “me.” Although this may all sound wonderful to the untrained eye, history has shown us that this collectivist idea can be very dangerous. Perhaps coincidentally, many authoritarian regimes down through history have promoted this argument. The problem, however, is that collective rights do not exist - there are only individual rights. That is why it was so revolutionary for the Founding Fathers in America to create a Bill of Rights, which enshrined the rights of individuals in law…
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The Club of Rome argues that we need a new planetary civilization because our current ways of living are unsustainable. As Paul Shrivastava, the Chief Sustainability Officer at Pennsylvania State University, told a Club of Rome event last year, a new civilization is needed because our previous ways of living and working are destroying the planet (17:00 into the video). He then goes on to argue, when discussing the merits of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, that because these socio-economic and environmental problems “are planetary scale problems… we need a governance system, or at least a way of thinking, that allows us to address them on systemic level” (19:00 to 20:39 in the video).
What is interesting about the logic of this second argument - that a global problem requires a global solution - is that it echoes the words of a report published by the Club of Rome all the way back in 1991. The report, titled: The First Global Revolution, was written by two high-level members of the Club, Alexander King and Bertrand Schneider. In a chapter called ‘The Vacuum,’ the authors begin by discussing ways in which “world cohesion” could be achieved (King and Schneider, 1991: p.68). They note that traditionally, societal cohesion was achieved by the forces of nationalism and religion. As the world changed however, this cohesion weakened, as religion declined in many countries and national politics was usurped by the forces of globalization in many instances.
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About, The Club of Rome https://clubofrome.org/about-us/
Club of Rome Summit 2019: Emerging New Civilisation(s) Initiative https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9Ji7z0UWgI
King, A. and Schneider, B. (1991) The First Global Revolution: A Report by the Council of the Club of Rome (Orient Longman) https://archive.org/details/TheFirstGlobalRevolution/mode/1up (Quote on p.75 https://archive.org/details/TheFirstGlobalRevolution/page/n85/mode/2up).
Insight History (1 Jan. 2020) Mass Manipulation: The Use of Internal Propaganda in Nazi Germany https://insighthistory.com/latest-content/f/mass-manipulation-the-use-of-internal-propaganda-in-nazi-germany
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