High Noon 20 Global Problems, 20 Years to Solve Them

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 256 pages
• Published by: Basic Books May 27, 2003
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 0465070108
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0465070107
• Book Dimensions: 7.9 x 5.3 x 0.6 inches
• Weighs: 13.4 ounces

Reader Reviews
Edit of 21 Dec 07 to aaddand links. Comment: This is still the best strategic overview and a book I would recommend all. See the others below. Having read perhaps twenty of the best books on global issues and environmental sustainability, water scarcity, ocean problems, etc, over the past few years (most reviewed here on Amazon) I was prepared for a superficial summary, political posturing, and unrealistic claims. Not this book--this book is one of the finest, most intelligent, most easily understood programs for action I have ever seen. The book as a whole, and the twenty problem statements specifically, are concise, illustrated, and sensible. The author breaks the twenty issues into 3 groups. Group one (sharing our planet) includes global warming; biodiversity and ecosystem losses, fisheries depletion, deforestation, water deficits, and maritime safety and pollution. Group two (sharing our humanity) includes massive step-up in the fight against poverty, peacekeeping-conflict prevention-combatting terrorism, education for all, global infectuous diseases, digital divide, and natural disaster prevention and mitigation. Group three (sharing our rule book) includes reinventing taxation for the 21st century, biotechnology rules, global financial architecture, illegal drugs, trade-investment-competition rules, intellectual property rights, e-commerce rules, and international labor and migration rules. The author's core concept for dealing with these complex issues intelligently, while recognizing that "world government" is not an option, lies with his appreciation of the Internet and how global issues networks could be created that would be a vertical complement to the existing horizontal elements of each national government. The footnotes and index are professional, but vastly more important, the author's vision is combined with practicality. This is a "doable-do" and this book is therefore my number one reading recommendation for any citizen buying just one book of the 360+ that I have recommended within Amazon. Superb. See also, with reviews: The Future of Life Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming Society's Breakthrough!: Releasing Essential Wisdom and Virtue in All the People Green Chemistry and the Ten Commandments of Sustainability, 2nd ed Ecological Economics: Principles And Applications Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution Comment | | (Report this)