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Author Mason, Colin, 1926-2020

Title The 2030 spike : countdown to global catastrophe / Colin Mason
Published London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan Publications, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (iv, 250 pages)
Contents Contents; About the Author; Part 1: Crisis Mode; Chapter 1: The Drivers; Chapter 2: Running Out of Fuel; Chapter 3: Population and Poverty; Chapter 4: Climate; Chapter 5: Famines; Chapter 6: One World?; Chapter 7: The Fourth Horseman; Part 2: Directions; Chapter 8: Which Way Science?; Chapter 9: In the Genes; Chapter 10: The Values of the Sea; Chapter 11: Multinationals; Chapter 12: The Trouble with Money; Part 3: Upgrading the Individual; Chapter 13: The Pursuit of Happiness; Chapter 14: Love, Family and Freedom; Chapter 15: Habitat; Chapter 16: Making Education Work
Summary The clock is relentlessly ticking! Our world teeters on a knife-edge between a peaceful and prosperous future for all and a dark winter of death and destruction that threatens to smother the light of civilization. Within 30 years in the 2030 decade six powerful 'drivers' will converge with unprecedented force in a statistical spike that could tear humanity apart and plunge the world into a new Dark Age. Depleted fuel supplies massive population growth poverty global climate change famine growing water shortages and international lawlessness are on a crash course with potentially catastrophic c
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-243) and index
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Subject Twenty-first century -- Forecasts.
Environmental policy.
Natural resources.
Social prediction.
Catastrophical, The.
environmental policy.
natural resources.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Future Studies.
Catastrophical, The
Environmental policy
Natural resources
Social prediction
Twenty-first century
Genre/Form Forecasts
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1844070182
9781844070183
9781849772853
1849772851
Other Titles Two thousand thirty spike
Two thousand and thirty spike
Twenty-thirty spike