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	A Short History of the Future: Surviving the 2030 Spike By: Mason, Colin Published By: Earthscan PDF for Digital Editions Price: $24.95 Available to read online in eb20 (what's this?) PDF for Digital Editions	EBOOK OPTIONS ADD TO CART ADD TO WISHLIST TELL A FRIEND RECEIVE ALERTS
	'This is a bold thought-provoking and ultimately rewarding book well-researched full of ideas – and thus a good all-round primer on the state of the planet' BBC WILDLIFE   'An impressive tour of our current world: from sexual slavery to sailing ships from malaria to microcredits from nanotechnology to neopaganism all the horrors and promises of our troubled Zeitgeist seem to be reflected here' RESURGENCE   'Is this a book you can afford to ignore? ... only the foolhardy would surely dare leave it unread on the shelf' INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS 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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