| 书目名称 | Surviving the 21st Century | | 副标题 | Humanity‘s Ten Great | | 编辑 | Julian Cribb | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Enriches understanding of humanity‘s greatest challenges and why we need to solve them.Shares many tips and insights into creative and collaborative ways of avoiding human extinction.Identifies the ma | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .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 pressures and human nature...The author examines ten intersecting areas of activity (mass extinction, resource depletion, WMD, climate change, universal toxicity, food crises, population and urban expansion, pandemic disease, dangerous new technologies and self-delusion) which pose manifest risks to civilization and, potentially, to our species’ long-term future. This isn’t a book just about problems. It is also about solutions. Every chapter concludes with clear conclusions and consensus advice on what needs to be done at global level —but it also empowers individuals with what they can do for | | 出版日期 | Book 2017 | | 关键词 | climate change and humanity; population and urban expansion; pandemic disease; environmental toxicity; r | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41270-2 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-41269-6 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-41270-2 | | copyright | Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017 |
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