Civilization's Crisis

A Set of Linked Challenges

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Political Science, International, Social Science

• Author: John Scales Avery
• ISBN: 9789813222472
• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
• Publication: April 20, 2017
• Imprint: WSPC
• Language: English

Modern civilization faces a broad spectrum of daunting problems, but rational solutions are available for them all. This book explores the following issues: (1) Threats to the environment and climate change; (2) a growing population and vanishing resources; (3) the global food and refugee crisis; (4) intolerable economic inequality; (5) the threat of nuclear war; (6) the military-industrial complex; and (7) limits to growth. These problems are closely interlinked, and their possible solutions are discussed in this book.

Contents:

• Economics, Ethics and Ecology
• Threats to the Environment and Climate Change
• Growing Population, Vanishing Resources
• The Global Food and Refugee Crisis
• Intolerable Economic Inequality
• The Threat of Nuclear War
• Facing a Set of Linked Problems
• Outlawing War
• The Evolution of Cooperation
• Education for Peace
• The Future of International Law
• The Choice is Ours to Make

Readership: Readers interested in an overview of world issues and a brief history of their origins.
Key Features:

• Provides a historical background and up-to-date information on current world issues
• Besides discussing current threats to human civilization and the biosphere, this book also proposes rational and holistic solutions