Colin Mason

The 2030 Spike (eBook, ePUB)

Countdown to Global Catastrophe

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The clock is relentlessly ticking!Our world teeters on a knife-edge between a peaceful and prosperous future for all, and a dark winter of death and destruction that threatens to smother the light of civilization. Within 30 years, in the 2030 decade, six powerful 'drivers' will converge with unprecedented force in a statistical spike that could tear humanity apart and plunge the world into a new Dark Age. Depleted fuel supplies, massive population growth, poverty, global climate change, famine, growing water shortages and international lawlessness are on a crash course with potentially catastrophic consequences. In the face of both doomsaying and denial over the state of our world, Colin Mason cuts through the rhetoric and reams of conflicting data to muster the evidence to illustrate a broad picture of the world as it is, and our possible futures. Ultimately his message is clear; we must act decisively, collectively and immediately to alter the trajectory of humanity away from catastrophe. Offering over 100 priorities for immediate action, The 2030 Spike serves as a guidebook for humanity through the treacherous minefields and wastelands ahead to a bright, peaceful and prosperous future in which all humans have the opportunity to thrive and build a better civilization. This book is powerful and essential reading for all people concerned with the future of humanity and planet earth.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136555107
• Artikelnr.: 38268602

Autorenporträt

Colin Mason, a foreign correspondent, broadcaster and SEATO adviser to the Thai Government, was a senator in the Australian Federal Parliament for nine years as deputy leader of the Australian Democrats. He served on the Senate Standing Committee for science and the environment, a select committee on the effects of Agent Orange on Australian servicemen, and the first delegation of the Australian Parliament to China, and initiated the private member's bill that led to the salvation of the Pristine Franklin River in Tasmania. He has published 12 books including the international bestselling novel Hostage and A Short history of Asia.

Inhaltsangabe

Part One: Crises Mode - The Drivers
Running out of Fuel: The Coming Energy Crunch
Population and Poverty
Climate: Too Hot or Too Cold?
Famines: Food and Water
One World?
The Fourth Horsemen
Part Two: Direction
Which Way Science?
In the Genes: New Plants - and People?
The Values of the Sea
Multinationals: Good Business or Bad?
The Trouble with Money
Part Three: Upgrading the Individual - The Pursuit of Happiness
Love, Family and Freedom
Habitat: The Dilemma of the Cities
Making Education Work
Health and Wealth
Religion: The Cement of Society
Part Four: The New Society?
The Mechanics of Change
Automation and Employment
Travelling Less?
Working Online
The Information Overload
The Toxic Culture
Running the Show
Conclusions: World to Come
Notes
Index