[1] The book is a blueprint for the twenty-first century at a time when the Club of Rome thought that the onset of the first global revolution was upon them.

The authors saw the world coming into a global-scale societal revolution amid social, economic, technological, and cultural upheavals that started to push humanity into an unknown.

The book saw humankind at the center of the revolution centered on: The product of a think tank, the book attempted to transcend the nation-state governance paradigm of the nineteenth-century and the twentieth-century and sought a way to eliminate some of the challenges seen inherent with those older systems of global governance.

"[2] "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.

"[3]An English language edition of this book was published in 1993 (ISBN 978-0001160323) by Orient Longman of Hyderabad, India.