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To encourage the participants to speak freely, they were asked to come without accompanying civil servants and assured that nothing they said would be attributed to them. The two-day private brainstorming meeting ended with a press conference for 300 journalists. As a logical extension of the Salzburg meeting, Peccei asked Jan Tinbergen to produce a follow-up report on global food and development policies, exploring these aspects much more thoroughly than the coverage in The Limits to Growth. Scholars from the First, Second and Third Worlds were invited to participate in the RIO project (Reshaping the International Order), though only Poland and Bulgaria accepted from the Communist bloc. The basic thesis was that the gap between rich and poor countries (with the wealthiest roughly 13 times richer than the poorest) was intolerable and the situation was inherently unstable, and that ways should be found to reduce the gap to 6:1 over the next 15 to 30 years. Unlike The Limits to Growth, the model allowed the developing countries five percent growth per annum, whereas the industrialised countries would have zero or negative growth. According to the report, all would benefit from more sensible use of energy and other resources and a more equitable distribution of global wealth. The main report argued that people in the rich countries would have to change their patterns of consumption and accept lower profits, but a dissenting group saw consumption as a symptom rather than a cause of the problems, which stemmed from the fundamental power structure. After numerous working sessions and presentations over an 18-month period, the final results of RIO were presented at a meeting in Algiers in October 1976 and accepted as a report to the Club of Rome. The report did not have the hoped-for impact. The last meeting Peccei organized and participated in was in Bogotá, Colombia, on 15–17 December 1983, with the title "Development in a World of Peace". Co-organizer of the meeting with Peccei was the President of Colombia, Belisario Betancur. Peccei visited Las Gaviotas in the Vichada and endorsed the project of Paolo Lugari to regenerate the rainforest that was destroyed by decades of extensive cattle farming.
== Death and legacy == Peccei died on 14 March 1984 in Rome. A biography was written by his long-time assistant, Gunter Pauli entitled, Crusader for the Future: A Portrait of Aurelio Peccei. It was published in 1987.
== Works == Peccei wrote several books, including:
The Chasm Ahead, Macmillan, NY (1969), ISBN 0-02-595360-5 The Human Quality, Pergamon Press (1977), ISBN 0-08-021479-7 One Hundred Pages for the Future, Pergamon Press (1981), ISBN 0-08-028110-9 Before it is Too Late: A Dialogue with Daisaku Ikeda, I.B. Tauris (2008), ISBN 978-1845118884
== References ==
== External links == Aurelio Peccei Website Club of Rome Gunter Pauli, Crusader for the Future: a Portrait of Aurelio Peccei, Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1987 Memoirs of a Boffin - Chapter 13: The Club of Rome Quotes from The Human Quality