The 2030 spike : countdown to global catastrophe / / olin Mason
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| Autore: |
Mason Colin <1926-, >
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| Titolo: |
The 2030 spike : countdown to global catastrophe / / olin Mason
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| Pubblicazione: | Sterling, Va. : , : Earthscan Publications, , 2003 |
| Edizione: | 2nd ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 303.49 |
| 363.7 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Twenty-first century |
| Environmental policy | |
| Natural resources | |
| Social prediction | |
| Catastrophical, The | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Reprinted 2004. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [230]-243) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | THE 2030 SPIKE COUNTDOWN TO GLOBAL CATASTROPHE; Copyright; CONTENTS; About the Author; PART ONE: CRISIS MODE; Chapter 1 The Drivers; Chapter 2 Running Out Of Fuel: The Coming Energy Crunch; Chapter 3 Population And Poverty; Chapter 4 Climate: Too Hot Or Too Cold?; Chapter 5 Famines: Food And Water; Chapter 6 One World?; Chapter 7 The Fourth Horseman; PART TWO: DIRECTIONS; Chapter 8 Which Way Science?; Chapter 9 In The Genes: New Plants - And People?; Chapter 10 The Values Of The Sea; Chapter 11 Multinationals: Good Business Or Bad?; Chapter 12 The Trouble With Money |
| PART THREE: UPGRADING THE INDIVIDUALChapter 13 The Pursuit Of Happiness; Chapter 14 Love, Family And Freedom; Chapter 15 Habitat: The Dilemma Of The Cities; Chapter 16 Making Education Work; Chapter 17 Health And Wealth; Chapter 18 Religion: The Cement Of Society?; PART FOUR: THE NEW SOCIETY?; Chapter 19 The Mechanics Of Change; Chapter 20 Automation And Employment; Chapter 21 Travelling Less?; Chapter 22 Working Online; Chapter 23 The Information Overload; Chapter 24 The Toxic Culture; Chapter 25 Running The Show; Chapter 26 Conclusion: World To Come; Notes; Index | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The clock is relentlessly ticking!Our world teeters on a knife-edge between a peaceful and prosperous future for all, and a dark winter of death and destruction that threatens to smother the light of civilization. Within 30 years, in the 2030 decade, six powerful 'drivers' will converge with unprecedented force in a statistical spike that could tear humanity apart and plunge the world into a new Dark Age. Depleted fuel supplies, massive population growth, poverty, global climate change, famine, growing water shortages and international lawlessness are on a crash course with potentially catastr |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The 2030 spike |
| ISBN: | 1-136-55510-2 |
| 1-136-55511-0 | |
| 1-280-47605-2 | |
| 9786610476053 | |
| 1-84977-285-1 | |
| 600-00-0012-X | |
| 1-4175-4255-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910450649503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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