Global Future—Meeting the Challenge
In 1977, the federal government, at President Carter's direction, launched an unprecedented two-part effort, first, to determine what population, resource, and environmental problems may face the world in the year 2000 and, second, to devise a plan of action to deal with those problems.1 The first of those studies, the GLOBAL 2000 REPORT,2 was delivered to President Carter in July 1980. Its purpose was to make projections as to the state of the world's resource problems absent intervening policy changes. The report was descriptive without making recommendations. The second report, GLOBAL FUTURE: TIME TO ACT, proposed measures to deal with the problems discussed in GLOBAL 2000. This article first summarizes the findings of GLOBAL 2000 and then turns to its main theme, GLOBAL FUTURE's recommendations for solving these problems.