The World Future Council: Surviving the Century – Facing Climate Chaos & Other Global Challenges

This book, the first major book to be published by the World Future Council, is focussed primarily on environmental issues. Above all else its eight chapters are concerned with making new choices about dealing with climate change – probably the greatest ever collective challenge faced by humanity, and one that goes right to the heart of the growth philosophy underpinning modern urban industrial civilisation. With leading researchers saying we may have little more than ten years to stop catastrophic climate change from becoming irreversible, not facing this challenge will be an intolerable crime against the future.

As Ross Gelbspan notes in his chapter, “a meaningful solution to the climate crisis could potentially be the beginning of a much larger transformation of our social and economic dynamics”. This book offers a contribution to this transformation. Looking in turn at issues relating to energy, agriculture, forests, cities, industrial processes, international trade, and the democratic system, this books contributors consider the gaps between where we are and where we need to be, and point to ways of bridging these.

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