Civilization's Crisis

Download or read book Civilization's Crisis written by John Avery and published by World Scientific Publishing Company. This book was released on 2017 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.