A Short History of the Future
by Colin Mason

Has the future a future? Are we bringing history to an end? Observing any one of several individual but critical trends suggests that, without rapid and positive action, history may have only a very short way to run.

In this compelling book, Colin Mason explains in clear and irrefutable terms what is going on – largely below the surface of our daily or weekly news bulletins.

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Subtitled: Surviving the 2030 spike

• A fully revised and updated edition of The 2030 Spike including additional material and the most up-to-date figures and projections

• ‘This is a bold, thought-provoking and ultimately rewarding book, well-researched, full of ideas – and thus a good, all-round primer on the state of the planet’ BBC WILDLIFE

• ‘An impressive tour of our current world: from sexual slavery to sailing ships, from malaria to microcredits, from nanotechnology to neopaganism, all the horrors and promises of our troubled Zeitgeist seem to be reflected here’ RESURGENCE

• ‘Is this a book you can afford to ignore? ... only the foolhardy would surely dare leave it unread on the shelf’ INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

• 'Mason, a former Australian senator, writes a narrative that is that is carefully researched and sober, and he actually offers some suggestions as to what to do about it'

Whether it is the growth of world population, of greenhouse gas concentrations and the accelerating rate of climate change, the running down of oil and natural gas reserves, growing shortages of fresh water for agriculture, industry and domestic use, or the increasing difficulty in controlling epidemic diseases – we are facing a mounting global crisis that will peak in less than a generation, around the year 2030. Taken together, these trends point to a potentially apocalyptic period, if not for the planet itself then certainly for human societies and for humankind.

The picture Mason paints is stark, and yet it is not bleak. Being forewarned, we are forearmed, and he draws on his own extensive political experience to describe how much we can do as individuals, and above all collectively, not merely to avert crisis but to engineer thoroughgoing change that can usher in genuinely sustainable and valuable alternatives to the way we live now.

Bibliographic Details
Paperback 14.99 ISBN: 1844073467
256 pages; 216 x 256 mm; Figures, tables, boxes, index

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