Why the word Meltdown in the title of the book? With the world
heating up, bush fires wiping out whole communities, money markets
and economic systems collapsing, mining operations replacing
quality farming land, factory chemicals poisoning the waterways,
the natural environment being destroyed, and whole societies being
displaced, we are indeed witnessing a meltdown. People are now very
concerned and some are afraid for their futures. Does the human
race, or at least sections of the populations in different
countries of the world hold beliefs about, and attitudes towards,
social and ecological issues such as climate change and futurist
scenarios that are apocalyptic? In a completely different vein, are
they prepared to take action about their environmentally unfriendly
behaviours? Are all the natural disasters that have beset the world
in the past decade an indicator that the world is about to end,
particularly coupled with famine, war and pestilence, and lately
the breakdown in the global economic systems, all having been
prophesised by different seers and religious leaders? This book is
timely and in some ways timeless; the issues discussed within its
pages are matters that are of interest to all people across the
world and really across time. In this book, there are a number of
chapters that focus on the theoretical positions and cognition
about fears and concerns for the future, in different segments of
the world's population. There are other chapters that describe
nature's situation as it is today, with water shortages, threats of
sea-level rise, loss of forests, habitats and wildlife in various
parts of the globe. These chapters demonstrate the complexities
involved in attempting to understand which aspects relate to
climate change, which aspects are distinct from climate change, and
indeed which aspects were already in existence, but have been, and
will be, exacerbated by climate change influences. The four basic
elements of life - fire, water, earth and air - are covered by
contributions on bush fires, floods, drought, water shortages, and
air pollution.
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