Screen LibrarySurviving the 21st century : humanity's ten great challenges and how we can overcome them /
The book explores the central question facing humanity today: how can we best survive the ten great existential challenges that are now coming together to confront us? Besides describing these challenges from the latest scientific perspectives, it also outlines and integrates the solutions, both at...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
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| Publisher Address: | Cham : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41270-2 |
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The book explores the central question facing humanity today: how can we best survive the ten great existential challenges that are now coming together to confront us? Besides describing these challenges from the latest scientific perspectives, it also outlines and integrates the solutions, both at global and individual level and concludes optimistically. This book brings together in one easy-to-read work the principal issues facing humanity. It is written for the two next generations who will have to deal with the compounding risks they inherit, and which flow from overpopulation, resource |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource(xiv,255pages): illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9783319412702 |
| Index Number: | GE1 |
| CLC: | X16 |
| Contents: | Foreword -- List of tables and figures -- Chapter 1. The Self-Worshipper (Homo suilaudans) -- Chapter 2 The Terminator (Homo exterminans) -- Chapter 3. The Degrader (Homo eversor) -- Chapter 4. The Butcher (Homo carnifex) -- Chapter 5: The Baker (Homo pistor) -- Chapter 6. The Poisoner (Homo veneficus) -- Chapter 7. The Devourer (Homo devorans) -- Chapter 8. The Urbanite (Homo urbanus) -- Chapter 9. The Self-Deceiver (Homo delusus) -- Chapter 10. The Getting of Wisdom (Homo sapientior). |