As an integral decade in this ongoing Age of Transitions the 1970s brought with it previously unimagined sociopolitical and economic shifts. Inflation was prevalent. The decade also saw the rise of the Petrodollar and the end of the gold-backed Bretton Woods era, as well as the seeding of eugenic “environmental catastrophe” memes propagated by works like the,
- Club of Rome’s 1972 publication, Limits to Growth
- John P. Holdren‘s equally Neomalthusian and lauded Ecoscience