Origins of Net~Zero~by~2050 ~~ Global Reduction of CO2

Part 1 ~~ The Road to Net Zero began with a 1972 Book ~ « Limits to Growth »

Graham Bates

Nov 12, 2025

All analytical journeys must begin with an open mind.

This book provided the Global Blueprint for the Deindustrialization and Depopulation of Planet Earth.

This book generated the Manifesto of the World Economic Forum’s ~ Davos’ Great Reset.

At the end of the 1960s and into the early 1970s, the international circles directly tied to David Rockefeller, launched a dazzling array of elite organizations and think tanks.

These included the;
*** Club of Rome;
*** 1001: A Nature Trust, tied to the World Wildlife Fund [WWF];
*** Stockholm United Nations Earth Day conference;
*** MIT-authored study, Limits to Growth;
*** David Rockefeller’s Trilateral Commission.

As Secretary General of the UN Rio Conference, Strong also commissioned a report from the Club of Rome, The First Global Revolution, authored by Alexander King which admitted that the CO2 global warming claim was merely an invented ruse to force change:

« The common enemy of humanity is man.
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. 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.» [xi]

President Clinton’s delegate to the Rio Conference, Tim Wirth, admitted the same, stating;

« We have got to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.» [xii]

Comment: There is no ambiguity here ~ an Open Mind will take note!

In 1971 the Club of Rome published a deeply-flawed report, Limits to Growth, which predicted an end to civilization as we knew it because of rapid population growth, combined with fixed resources such as oil.

The report concluded that without substantial changes in resource consumption, « the most probable result will be a rather sudden and uncontrollable decline in both population and industrial capacity.» This has not happened, thus proving the flawed report.