curatoren Marten Kuijpers, Joris Lohman, Maarten Kuiper
- Editor(s)
- Marten Kuijpers, Joris Lohman, Maarten Kuiper
- Publication
- Rotterdam : Het Nieuwe Instituut, 2014
- Scope
- 9 Pages, illustrated, 30 cm.
‘Dear President’, the European Commissioner for Agriculture Sicco Mansholt starts his letter, dated 14 February 1972, addressed to the then President of the European Commission Franco-Maria Malfatti. ‘I think it is desirable that, during our final year, the Commission concerns itself intensively with the economic policy to be pursued. It sounds calm and decisive, but very soon this new policy turns out to be necessary to deal with ‘grave matters’ facing not only Europe but also ‘all of humanity’. Mansholt based his urgent letter on a report by the System Dynamics Group at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), published in July 1971, which sounded the alarm concerning the consequences of the rising world population, food production, industrialisation, pollution and depletion of natural resources. To these he adds other concerns: ‘creating meaningful employment’, ‘achieving genuine democracy’, ‘creating equal opportunities for everybody’ and ‘our relationship with developing countries
- Person as subject
- Sicco Mansholt
- Keywords
- ecology , energy transition
- Location
- Cabinet 18 - 3: Ecologisch bouwen
- Remarks
