ABSTRACT
This chapter focusing on the context of its production, and by bringing out the complexity of its conception of the future and the chapter will show the extent to which the Limits to Growth report was rooted in its time. The Problematique referred to an inextricable cluster of problems of different kinds, including limited natural resources, the uneven development of technology between the industrialized and the developing world, and the inadequacy of political institutions in handling problems on a planetary scale. The Limits to Growth report was launched publicly in March 1972 at the prestigious Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC. Peccei was a very singular actor in the development of a global consciousness, in that he borrowed from much contrasted visions about the future of the world. The first vision of "technology and the future" expressed by Peccei was thus coherent with the main policy approaches developed at his time, at both global and European levels.
