''The First Global Revolution'' is a book written by Alexander King and Bertrand Schneider, and published by Pantheon Books in 1991. The book follows up the earlier 1972 work-product from the

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''. The book's tagline is ''A Report by the Council of the Club of Rome''. The book was intended as a blueprint for the 21st century putting forward a strategy for world survival at the onset of what they called the world's first global revolution.Alexander King & Bertrand Schneider - The First Global Revolution (Club of Rome) 1993 Edition

*The Problematique :*The Whirlwind of Change :*Some Areas of Acute Concern :*The International Mismanagement of the World Economy :*Intimitations of Solidarity :*The Vacuum :*The Human Malaise :*Conclusion: The Challenge * The Resolutique :* Introduction :*The Three Immediacies :*Governance and the Capacity to Govern :*Agents of the Resolutique :*Motivations and Values :*Learning Our Way Into a New Era

Overview

The book is a blueprint for the twenty-first century at a time when the

thought that the onset of the first global revolution was upon them. The authors saw the world coming into a global-scale societal revolution amid social, economic, technological, and cultural upheavals that started to push humanity into an unknown. The goal of the book was to outline a strategy for mobilizing the world's governments for environmental security and clean energy by purposefully converting the world from a military to a civil economy, tackling global warming and solving the energy problem, dealing with world poverty and disparities between the northern hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere. The book saw humankind at the center of the revolution centered on: *Global economic growth *New technologies *Governments and the ability to govern *Mass Media *Global food security *Water availability *Environment *Energy *Population growth *Learning systems *Values/Religions *Materials The product of a

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, the book attempted to transcend the nation-state governance paradigm of the nineteenth-century and the twentieth-century and sought a way to eliminate some of the challenges seen inherent with those older systems of global governance. As such, it explored new and sometimes controversial viewpoints.

Later editions

An English language edition of this book was published in 1993 () by Orient Longman of Hyderabad, India.

References

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Contents

Overview

Later editions

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