In 1972, the Club of Rome released a report, Limits of Growth, in which it was suggested that if the then economic patterns continued, the world would soon experience an ecological disaster. Limits of Growth was the first report that has warned that humanity is on the verge of a global economic and ecological destruction. Limits of Growth has also laid the foundations of the concept of sustainable development, a concept which is now acknowledged all over the world and which for the first time brings together the issues of environment and national/international economy.