Global Survival: The Challenge And Its Implications for Thinking And Acting

Features

• Cover Type: Hard Cover with 290 pages
• Published by: Select Books NY December 30, 2005
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 1590791045
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-1590791042
• Book Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.3 x 1.3 inches
• Weighs: 1.2 pounds

Product Review
Finally we have a book that focuses on the need for communications among disciplines in assessing the human prospect. -- Lester Brown, President, Earth Policy Institute

GLOBAL SURVIVALunlocks a door and opens up a new way for seeing the world and dealing with it. -- Donald Mann, President, Negative Population Growth

I urge anybody interested in a workable future to pick up this inspiring invitation to survival research. -- Mathis Wackernagel, Ph.D., Executive Director, Global Footprint Network

Product Description
Global Survival: The Challenge and its Implications for Thinking and Acting is a book that is not necessarily ahead of its time. But, if we’re lucky, it has come just in time.



The threats we face as a species and a civilization are staggering, daunting, and all too real. The threat of war, or worse; environmental degradation; social, political, and economic woes; all of these are issues with worldwide implications both for us and future generations. Yet the solutions offered, when offered, are dangerously short-sighted and narrowly focused, often intensifying other equally serious problems -- or even creating new ones.



To address this condition, a group of distinguished thought leaders came together and, in a 2003 edition of the journal World Futures, demonstrated how a broad array of human thought and activities interact to create and intensify the problems we face. This approach, here called Survival Research, could be the methodology that enables us to overcome obstacles to meaningful progress.

Reader Reviews
We all agree that the environment is changing, and our planet is in danger. The global warming is no longer only a scientific term, but widely used in large populations' daily life. We live in a global family and need new ways of thinking and acting. "Global Survival", one of books published in the CHANGE THE WORLD series, would convince you why and how to change in our daily life. I rate this book at 5 stars and highly recommend anybody who cares this planet and wants their loved later generations enjoy the earth for long, should read this book. Variety of viewpoints makes this a winner among the other related books.