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The 2030 spike : countdown to global catastrophe / Colin Mason
Bib ID 1018770
Format BookBook
Author
Mason, Colin, 1926-
 
Online Versions
Description Sterling, VA : Earthscan Publications, 2003 
iv, 250 p. ;c 23 cm. 
ISBN 1844070182 (hbk.) 
Summary

"Offering over 100 priorities for immediate action, The 2030 Spike serves as a guidebook for humanity through the treacherous minefields and wastelands ahead to a bright, peaceful and prosperous future in which all humans have the opportunity to thrive and build a better civilization."--BOOK JACKET.

Full contents
  • 1. The Drivers
  • 2. Running Out of Fuel: The Coming Energy Crunch
  • 3. Population and Poverty
  • 4. Climate: Too Hot or Too Cold?
  • 5. Famines: Food and Water
  • 6. One World?
  • 7. The Fourth Horseman
  • 8. Which Way Science?
  • 9. In the Genes: New Plants - and People?
  • 10. The Values of the Sea
 
Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [230]-243) and index.

Subjects Twenty-first century - Forecasts.  |  Environmental policy.  |  Natural resources.  |  Social prediction.  |  Catastrophical, The.  |  Two thousand thirty, A.D.  |  Social change  |  Humanism  |  Environmental management  |  Natural resource management  |  Global population  |  Behaviour  |  Trends, Long term  |  Overseas item
Also Titled

Two thousand thirty spike

Two thousand and thirty spike

Twenty-thirty spike

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