Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Political Science

Chapter

Contemporary World Politics: Environment and Natural Resources

Question:

The Club of Rome, a global think tank, published a book in 1972 dramatising the potential depletion of the Earth’s resources against the backdrop of rapidly growing world population. Name the book.

Options:

Freedom to Growth

Limits to Growth

Our common future

Beyond the Growth

Correct Answer:

Limits to Growth

Explanation:

Although environmental concerns have a long history, awareness of the environmental consequences of economic growth acquired an increasingly political character from the 1960s onwards. The Club of Rome, a global think tank, published a book in 1972 entitled Limits to Growth, dramatising the potential depletion of the Earth’s resources against the backdrop of rapidly growing world population.