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In 1968, Italian industrialist Aurelio Peccei and Scottish scientist Alexander King launched the Club of Rome—a globalist think tank whose radical ideas about population control, man-made climate change, and de-industrialization continue to shape government policy today.

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Rumors about the true purpose of the Club of Rome have been circulating since its inception. Supporters describe it as a force for protecting the planet, while critics argue it promotes population control, transhumanism, and “crisis creation”—employing the Hegelian dialectic to achieve its objectives.

The Club is composed of unelected academics, scientists, politicians, and globalists. Despite presenting itself as a vehicle for “saving the planet,” critics insist its real aim is to centralize power into the hands of a global elite in pursuit of a one-world government.

Co-founder Aurelio Peccei was born in Turin, Italy, in 1908. He earned an economics degree in 1930, then joined Fiat to lead operations in China. He returned to Italy before World War II and joined the anti-Fascist Resistance, surviving both arrest and torture. After the war, Peccei rejoined Fiat and, in 1949, moved to Argentina to oversee its Latin American operations.

In the early 1950s, Peccei founded Italconsult, a consulting firm for developing countries. During the 1960s and 70s, he helped establish IIASA in Austria, bridging Eastern and Western science in global climate and energy research. With increasing awareness of environmental issues, he joined the World Wildlife Fund’s board.

Peccei’s partner in the Club of Rome, Alexander King, was born in Glasgow. He attended Highgate School and studied chemistry at Imperial College. Between 1929 and 1931, he conducted research at the University of Munich before returning to Imperial as a lecturer and later senior lecturer in physical chemistry.

During WWII, King served as Deputy Scientific Adviser at the Ministry of Production under Sir Henry Tizard, where he recognized DDT’s potential as an insecticide from an intercepted letter, and allegedly coined its acronym.

In 1943, he led the UK Scientific Mission and served as Scientific Attaché in Washington. Post-war, he became Secretary of the Advisory Council on Scientific Policy and Chief Scientific Adviser to the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. In 1957, he was appointed Director of the European Productivity Agency in Paris, later advancing to OECD Director-General for Scientific Affairs. In 1974, he chaired the International Federation of Institutes of Advanced Studies in Stockholm.

“It’s important that everyone should have a concept of the world as a whole, and should avoid as far as possible bringing up their children in any sense of local patriotism, nationalism, and parochialism.”

– Alexander King

In the late months of 1966, Dr. King came across a speech delivered in South America by Aurelio Peccei, whom King hadn’t yet heard of. The speech focused on the effects of surging population growth, rising food consumption, depletion of materials, and energy—which would inevitably lead to shortages and environmental decline.

Peccei’s speech closely matched King’s own beliefs, so he wrote to Peccei, asking to meet him the next time he was in Paris. When they met, the two found themselves aligned in their opinions, goals, and ideas.

They shared a desire to ensure the continuation of life on Earth. Both believed that politicians and world leaders needed to create policies to secure humanity’s survival—policies that might be harsh, but necessary. They agreed that existing international organizations could enact their vision.

They talked about gathering like-minded people into a group, free from any bias. To create a global order, groups must advocate for it internationally.

The Congress for Cultural Freedom held a conference on world order at the Rockefeller Foundation’s Villa Serbelloni in Bellagio, Italy, from June 12 to 19, 1965. Funded by the Ford Foundation and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the event brought together leading scholars, writers, and scientists to discuss ideas that echoed Peccei and King’s vision of world order.

The official report stated:

“Intellectuals should be the driving force behind forming groups that support world order. To create world order, groups must promote it globally. The negotiated establishment of world order is theoretically possible and practically feasible since, in the last analysis, the probable effects of nuclear conflagration have made war an impractical alternative to the peaceful solution of contemporary problems.”

The Club of Rome—closely connected with NATO and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)—would later support population control and economic restrictions as part of this broader agenda.

Three years later, in April 1968, a group of 36 European scientists met again at the Rockefeller Foundation property in Bellagio, Italy. Their stated objective was to “improve the world” through conservation and to push environmental issues onto the political agenda.

From its inception, however, the Club of Rome focused on social engineering, economic authoritarianism, and population control.

In 1972, the Club of Rome commissioned the bestseller “The Limits to Growth,” funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, which simulated the effects of development on Earth’s resources. The study considered the relationships between population, resources, environmental factors, and land use.

It presented multiple scenarios developed via computer simulation, based on hypothetical stabilizing policies. The outcomes were always the same: a global population and living standard collapse in 50-100 years, if trends persisted.

To simulate interactions between Earth systems and human activity, the study used the World3 computer model, derived from Jay Forrester’s MIT work and his book “World Dynamics.” The model examined exponential economic and population growth within the limits of finite resources.

According to the report, the planet’s temperature was projected to increase by roughly two degrees Celsius by 2052, and global output would peak between 2008 and 2020, given the existing natural resources.

The findings were initially presented at international conferences in Moscow and Rio in the summer of 1971. The report warned of a sharp decline in population and industry without major adjustments. Despite early disapproval, it influenced environmental reforms for years, yet global efforts fell short and resource scarcity forecasts proved wrong.

The Club of Rome frequently launches projects and publishes reports on subjects including:

⦁Deterioration of the physical environment
⦁Crisis of institutions
⦁Bureaucratization
⦁Disposal of youth
⦁Violence
⦁Inadequate education
⦁Growing gap between poor and industrialized countries
⦁Uncontrolled urban growth
⦁Insecurity in employment
⦁Decreasing satisfaction obtained at work
⦁Impugnation of the values of society
⦁Indifference to law and order
⦁Inflation and currency disruption

Is the Club of Rome simply a group of well-meaning, caring individuals who want to see Earth thrive, or is there something more sinister at play? Conspiracies abound.

Author John Coleman, a former MI6 officer, claims the Club of Rome was founded at the request of Europe’s “Black Nobility.”

He writes in his book “The Club of Rome”:

“The Club of Rome consists of the oldest members of the so-called Black Nobility of Europe, descendants of the ancient families, who owned, controlled and ran Genoa and Venice in the 12th century. They are called “Black Nobility” because of their use of dirty tricks, murder, terrorism, unethical behavior, and worship of Satan – ‘black’ deeds.”

“They never hesitated to use force against anyone who dared to stand in their way, and this is no less true today than it was during the 13th to the 18th centuries. The Venetian Black Nobility is closely allied with the so-called German Marshall Fund, another name—like the Club of Rome—chosen to deceive the unwary. The Venetian Black Nobility consists of the richest and most ancient of all European families, their wealth far surpassing that of the Rockefellers, for instance, and they are part of the Committee of 300, the most powerful controlling body in the world.”

It is rumored that the Club of Rome maintains its own intelligence service, drawing on the work of Interpol, Mossad, and former KGB agents. These alleged ties stem from the USSR’s major economic projects with Fiat, led by Giovanni Agnelli, who was said to belong to an Italian Black Nobility family.

A number of recent theories suggest the Committee of 300, a purported secret society of European industrialists, secretly controls the Club of Rome. According to these accounts, the Committee of 300 long ago concluded that the world’s population should be drastically reduced, viewing most people as useless consumers of resources.

The theories propose that the Club fabricates crises to trigger de-industrialization in developed nations and halt industrialization in Third World countries, paving the way for a new Dark Age and global slavery under a global government. They are also said to be responsible for the closure of much of America’s industrial base during the Reagan years, and the collapse of the Russian economy in 1989.

The Club of Rome continues to work with the UN and major international NGOs. Its members are involved in initiatives such as Earth4All (2022), Reframing Economics (2023), and EU policy programs (2024). The group’s “environmentalist” agenda has also found an audience in the Vatican.

You can find numerous mentions of the Club of Rome on the World Economic Forum’s website, and it is frequently linked to the Bilderberg Group.

Critics claim the Club of Rome is masterminding a global plot, using climate fears to destroy nations and establish a tech-led world.

According to these criticisms, managing the so-called “New World Order” calls for the elimination of most of the world’s population through war, disease, abortion, and famine. In the Club’s own publications, humanity is described as “the real enemy.”

Much like the WEF, this globalist faction stays mostly hidden but exerts considerable power. Unelected and lacking public approval, it is said to dictate policy while media, governments, elite NGOs, and even the vaccination industry push anti-family agendas as part of a broader population control agenda.

Former and current members—including Henry Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski, George Soros, and Bill Gates—subscribe to the theory that humanity needs “a common adversary” to justify world government. Man-made climate change and environmental disaster have been chosen to play the role of that adversary.

Perhaps no passage illustrates the goals of the Club of Rome more clearly than this excerpt from its 1991 report “The First Global Revolution”:

“In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill... But in designating them as the enemy, we fall into the trap... [of] mistaking symptoms for causes.”

“All these dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome. The real enemy, then, is humanity itself.”

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