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A User's Guide to the Crisis of Civilisation: And How to Save it

By Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed

Book information

Publisher
Pluto Press
Year
2010
ISBN
0745330533, 9780745330532
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6382176 bytes)
Pages
320\308
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-10-14 09:04:27

Description

It often seems that different crises are competing to devastate civilization. This book argues that financial meltdown, dwindling oil reserves, terrorism and food shortages need to be considered as part of the same ailing system. Most accounts of our contemporary global crises such as climate change, or the threat of terrorism, focus on one area, or another, to the exclusion of others. Nafeez Ahmed argues that the unwillingness of experts to look outside their specialisations explains why there is so much disagreement and misunderstanding about particular crises. This book attempts to investigate all of these crises, not as isolated events, but as trends and processes that belong to a single global system. We are therefore not dealing with a "clash of civilizations," as Huntington argued. Rather, we are dealing with a fundamental crisis of civilization itself. This book provides a stark warning of the consequences of failing to take a broad view of the problems facing the world.

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