The Global 2000 Report to the President
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The Global 2000 Report to the President was released in 1980 by the Council on Environmental Quality
and the United States Department of State
. It was commissioned by President Jimmy Carter
on May 23, 1977, and was directed by Gerald O. Barney. It was based on data collected by different institutions. This data and information was used in computer models to make projections for the future based on trends for the next decades. The study was translated into German in the same year of its publication. An additional report under the title "Global Future: Time to Act" was published 1981.
This is the second study after The Limits to Growth that started discussion about possible future trends such as global warming
, energy scarcity
, explosive human population growth
, plant and fauna species eradication, genetic diversity extinction, and a global economic system based on unlimited wants in contrast Earth
's finite resources, etc.
It concluded with:
Council on Environmental Quality
The Council on Environmental Quality is a division of the Executive Office of the President that coordinates federal environmental efforts in the United States and works closely with agencies and other White House offices in the development of environmental and energy policies and initiatives...
and the United States Department of State
United States Department of State
The United States Department of State , is the United States federal executive department responsible for international relations of the United States, equivalent to the foreign ministries of other countries...
. It was commissioned by President Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office...
on May 23, 1977, and was directed by Gerald O. Barney. It was based on data collected by different institutions. This data and information was used in computer models to make projections for the future based on trends for the next decades. The study was translated into German in the same year of its publication. An additional report under the title "Global Future: Time to Act" was published 1981.
This is the second study after The Limits to Growth that started discussion about possible future trends such as global warming
Global warming
Global warming refers to the rising average temperature of Earth's atmosphere and oceans and its projected continuation. In the last 100 years, Earth's average surface temperature increased by about with about two thirds of the increase occurring over just the last three decades...
, energy scarcity
Scarcity
Scarcity is the fundamental economic problem of having humans who have unlimited wants and needs in a world of limited resources. It states that society has insufficient productive resources to fulfill all human wants and needs. Alternatively, scarcity implies that not all of society's goals can be...
, explosive human population growth
Population growth
Population growth is the change in a population over time, and can be quantified as the change in the number of individuals of any species in a population using "per unit time" for measurement....
, plant and fauna species eradication, genetic diversity extinction, and a global economic system based on unlimited wants in contrast Earth
Earth
Earth is the third planet from the Sun, and the densest and fifth-largest of the eight planets in the Solar System. It is also the largest of the Solar System's four terrestrial planets...
's finite resources, etc.
It concluded with: