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The Five Horsemen of the Modern World: Climate, Food, Water, Disease, and Obesity

By Daniel Callahan

Book information

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Year
2016
ISBN
9780231541527
DOI
10.7312/call17702
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2623556 bytes)
Pages
416\413
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-22 23:59:32

Description

Daniel Callahan examines global problems—obesity, anthropogenic climate change, wasting illnesses, ecological degradation, and global famine—and shines a light on the institutions, practices, and actors that block major change. Only through well-crafted political, regulatory, industrial, and cultural counterstrategies can we change enough minds to check these threats. Big thinking on issues that are usually evaluated separately, this book is sure to scramble partisan divides and provoke unusual, heated debate. A leading bioethicist explores the intractable threats to our well-being that persist despite the multigenerational effort to defeat them.

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