The Future in Plain Sight: A Look at Our Planet in the Year 2050 Paperback - 2002
by Eugene Linden
For more than half a century, our planet has enjoyed a prolonged period of privilege and stability. Recent decades have seen some of the most extraordinary prosperity in all of human history, and we have come to view this as the norm.
But what if instability returned?
And what can we do to prevent that from happening?
In The Future in Plain Sight, author Eugene Linden lays out the nine factors that are symptomatic of instability in today's world. They include overpopulation, the widening gap between rich and poor, the resurgence of infectious disease, and the effects of a changing global climate. Linden explores these and other destabilizing forces and tells us what we can do to plan and prepare for life in an unsettled and unsettling universe.
From crises in the world's financial markets to the breakdown of natural systems that support human life, The Future in Plain Sight is a powerful look at what lies in store for us in the coming decades.
Summary
But what if instability returned?
And what can we do to prevent that from happening?
In The Future in Plain Sight, author Eugene Linden lays out the nine factors that are symptomatic of instability in today's world. They include overpopulation, the widening gap between rich and poor, the resurgence of infectious disease, and the effects of a changing global climate. Linden explores these and other destabilizing forces and tells us what we can do to plan and prepare for life in an unsettled and unsettling universe.
From crises in the world's financial markets to the breakdown of natural systems that support human life, The Future in Plain Sight is a powerful look at what lies in store for us in the coming decades.
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- Title The Future in Plain Sight: A Look at Our Planet in the Year 2050
- Author Eugene Linden
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reissue
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Plume Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2002-01-29
- ISBN 9780452282995 / 0452282993
- Weight 0.56 lbs (0.25 kg)
- Dimensions 7.96 x 5.34 x 0.7 in (20.22 x 13.56 x 1.78 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Twenty-first century - Forecasts
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002281575
- Dewey Decimal Code 303.490
Media reviews
—Edward O. Wilson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Consilience
"May be the most important book of the decade."
—Denver Rocky Mountain News
"A highly interesting look at things, not so much as they will be, but as they might become."
—The Orlando Sentinel
"A novel and interesting way of looking at world events."
—Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
"Linden brings wide learning, acute judgement, and great imagination to his evaluation of destabilizing forces. His close-grained, evocative descriptions of possible futures in specific places suggest more about where we may actually be headed than any other book I know."
—William Finnegan, author of Cold New World: Growing Up in a Harder Country
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