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A Short History of the Future - Surviving the 2030 Spike (Hardcover)
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A Short History of the Future - Surviving the 2030 Spike (Hardcover)
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Has the future a future? Are we bringing history to an end?
Observing any one of several individual but critical trends
suggests that, without rapid and positive action, history may have
only a very short way to run. Whether it is the growth of world
population, of greenhouse gas concentrations and the accelerating
rate of climate change, the running down of oil and natural gas
reserves, growing shortages of fresh water for agriculture,
industry and domestic use, or the increasing difficulty in
controlling epidemic diseases we are facing a mounting global
crisis that will peak in less than a generation, around the year
2030. Taken together, these trends point to a potentially
apocalyptic period, if not for the planet itself then certainly for
human societies and for humankind. In this compelling book, and
update to The 2030 Spike, Colin Mason explains in clear and
irrefutable terms what is going on largely below the surface of our
daily or weekly news bulletins. The picture he paints is stark, and
yet it is not bleak. Being forewarned, we are forearmed, and he
draws on his own extensive political experience to describe how
much we can do as individuals, and above all collectively, not
merely to avert crisis but to engineer thoroughgoing change that
can usher in genuinely sustainable and valuable alternatives to the
way we live now.
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