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The Future in Plain Sight: A Look at Our Planet in the Year 2050

The Future in Plain Sight: A Look at Our Planet in the Year 2050


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About the Book

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.

Table of Contents:
Preface Introduction Part I: Nine Clues to the Future 1. Hot-Tempered Markets 2. Karachi and Curitiba 3. No "Vent for Surplus" 4. The Ubiquitous Wage Gap 5. A Warning from the Ice 6. A Biosphere in Disarray 7. Living with Limits: A Preview 8. Infectious Disease Resurgent 9. The Rise of the True Believers 10. Looking Forward Part II: Scenes from 2050 11. London: The Vicars of Finance 12. The Philippines: Ruin, Rice, and Rebirth 13. California: The Fog Lifts 14. Oaxaca, Mexico: The Poorest Find a Way 15. New York City: Advertising Adapts 16. Central Africa: Nature Out of Balance 17. Kansas: Trouble on the Farm 18. Antarctica Stirs Part III: The Case for Instability The Case for Instability Afterword to the Plume Edition Acknowledgments Index

About the Author :
Eugene Linden is an award-winning journalist and the author of The Parrot’s Lament, The Future in Plain Sight, Silent Partners, and other books on animals and the environment. He has consulted for the U.S. State Department, the UN Development Program, and he is a widely traveled speaker and lecturer. In 2001, Yale University named Linden a Poynter Fellow in recognition of his writing on the environment.  He lives in Nyack, New York, and Washington, D.C.

Review :
"A very important book...provocative...A lucidly written guide to the near future." —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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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780452282995
  • Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
  • Publisher Imprint: Plume
  • Height: 203 mm
  • No of Pages: 304
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: A Look at Our Planet in the Year 2050
  • Width: 135 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0452282993
  • Publisher Date: 29 Jan 2002
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Weight: 263 gr


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