Where we areA planning anddecision-making tool

Instrument for a new systemof international economic relations

Solidarity forPeace and DevelopmentTechnical ReunionClub of RomeGuanajuato, Mexico1975

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The evolution of man

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This illustration shows the development of life from the origins of the Earth until the first man appeared. Each millimeter of the spiral corresponds to 1 million years. The colors of the bars indicate evolution in the 17 animal and vegetable groups. Dark tones indicate a gradual evolution, and light tones, a regressive phase in evolution. Red is employed for the animal and green for the vegetable kingdom.

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Where man lives

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IV. Mesozoic (Late) F Triassic G Jurassic H Cretaceous

V. Cenozoic I Tertiary a. Paleocene b. Eocene c. Oligocene d. Miocene e. Pliocene J Quaternary f. Pleistocene g. Holocene

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Surprisingly, the population will find obvious what up until now has been evident only toa few; that the entire economic organization channeled into a better life has become thegreatest enemy of social wellbeing.

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If the world is to survive, we must find a method that recognizes the need to invert the present political agendas.To allow ourselves to be dominated by progress may bind man to a competition in which no one will be able to reach the finish line.

Behind the crisis of limits there is an abyss between man and nature that, with alarming speed, is becoming ever greater.

Today we understand far better than our predecessors that the existence of all life on Earth, including our own, depends on the stability of the ecological system.

The proportion of human and mechanical forces maintains a 1:15 ratio in China and 1:300 in the USA

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Social polarization depends on the fact that consumption and industrial production come in units so large, that most people are excluded from them.

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A change in the man-naturerelationship is necessary

Growth of urbanpopulation100,000inhabitants

The growth of the urban population will accelerate in developed countries, especially after the end of this century, when rural zones will no longer be able to absorb local population increases. This will have very serious repercussions in the urban job market, where over the next 50 years nearly 1 billion new jobs will have to be created in order to cover the increase in the urban population.

If the industrial growth rate were only 4% annually in southern Asia, the jobless urban population alone would increase to 100 million in the year 2000 and to over 500 million in the year 2025.

Population balance forthe developing world

The population of developing regions has experienced accelerated growth in the 1960s. If this growth continues at the current rate, in just 50 more years, the population of the Third World will reach 10 billion people. Not even an effective policy of equilibrium will be able to detain this population growth before it reaches 20 billion people.

A change is necessary in the man-nature relationship and the emergence of a new perception of humanity as a living global system.Po

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Sources of airpollution, USA.(Millions of metrictons per year)

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Where food is consumed

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There are two areas in the development of instruments: the first encompasses machinery used with the objective of expanding human capacity and the second, machinery used to reduce, eliminate or replace human functions.

Distribution of goods and instruments

The United States, with 6% of the world population, uses 35% of global energy.

Energy generated by basic machinery

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We learn sooner or later that the options we face are invariably limited and diminish in time.

Global protein consumption

Newspapers

From exponential growthto organic growth

Organic growth, in contrast, implies a process of differentiation, which means that various groups of cells begin to differentiate themselves in terms of

There is no more pressing task in our search for peace than to guide the worldwide system toward the path of organic growth through various stages of its evolution, via cooperation instead of confrontation.

Organic growth

Exponential growth

There is an ancient Persian legend that tells how a clever courtesan offered his king a beautiful chess board in exchange for a grain of rice for the first square of the board, two for the second, four for the third, and so on. The King accepted willingly and ordered the rice to be brought from his storehouse. The fourth square on the board demanded 8 grains, the tenth 512, the fifteenth 16,384 and the

twenty-first provided over a million grains to the courtesan. By the fortieth square, the king had to send for a trillion grains of rice from his storehouse. And thus, long before the king had reached square number 64, he had already depleted his entire supply of rice. Exponential increases are very tricky, because they generate very large numbers very rapidly.

structure and function. The cells become organic-specific in keeping with the development process of the organism.

Charter of Economic Rightsand Duties of States.

We believe in a new international economic order

Man portrayed by man

Can man continue to be creative?