The think-tank behind The Limits to Growth — which Bob invokes chiefly through a McLuhan pun, the "Club of Ruin." In Bob's telling the group tried to recruit McLuhan to an ecology "figure" he saw through, and it recurs as part of his broader, contested reading of the 1967–72 ecology turn. The page records Bob's characterization; it does not endorse the wider claims he attaches to the group. New to it — start with dialogue 09 for the "Club of Ruin" pun.
Across the dialogues
Enters through McLuhan's pun — the "Club of Ruin," the ecology think-tank Bob says tried and failed to recruit McLuhan
Bob relays McLuhan's pun on the ecology think-tank — the "Club of Ruin" — and, in Bob's reading, a body McLuhan declined to join because he took its ecology to be a managed "figure with a ground effect."
"the Club of Ruin"
Reappears in the eco-fascism cluster — The Limits to Growth and the "Club of Ruin," the 1967–72 back-to-the-land turn
Bob folds the Club of Rome into his "eco-fascism" cluster — The Limits to Growth and the back-to-the-land impulse of 1967–72, which he reads as a response to Sputnik that "turned the planet into art form."
"you've turned the planet into art form"
Connections
McLuhan's pun, as Bob relays it — the ecology think-tank turned "Club of Ruin."