The Future in Plain Sight: Nine Clues to the Coming Instability - Couverture rigide

Linden, Eugene

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ISBN 10 : 0684811332 ISBN 13 : 9780684811338

Editeur : Simon & Schuster, 1998

Synopsis

Suggests that humankind's success in modern times makes us blind to the current harbingers of chaos, such as the rise of infectious disease, climate and economic instability, population growth, and increased fanaticism.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

For more than half a century, our planet has enjoyed a prolonged period of privilege and stability. Recent decades have seen some of the most extraordinary prosperity in all of human history, and we have come to view this as the norm.

But what if instability returned?

And what can we do to prevent that from happening?

In The Future in Plain Sight, author Eugene Linden lays out the nine factors that are symptomatic of instability in today's world. They include overpopulation, the widening gap between rich and poor, the resurgence of infectious disease, and the effects of a changing global climate. Linden explores these and other destabilizing forces and tells us what we can do to plan and prepare for life in an unsettled and unsettling universe.

From crises in the world's financial markets to the breakdown of natural systems that support human life, The Future in Plain Sight is a powerful look at what lies in store for us in the coming decades.

Revue de presse

"A very important book...provocative...A lucidly written guide to the near future."
—Edward O. Wilson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Consilience

"May be the most important book of the decade."
—Denver Rocky Mountain News

"A highly interesting look at things, not so much as they will be, but as they might become."
—The Orlando Sentinel

"A novel and interesting way of looking at world events."
—Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

"Linden brings wide learning, acute judgement, and great imagination to his evaluation of destabilizing forces. His close-grained, evocative descriptions of possible futures in specific places suggest more about where we may actually be headed than any other book I know."
—William Finnegan, author of Cold New World: Growing Up in a Harder Country

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Simon & Schuster
• Date d'édition: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0684811332
• ISBN 13: 9780684811338
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible