Author: | Kenyon B. De Greene | ISBN: | 9781469105680 |
Publisher: | Xlibris US | Publication: | April 10, 2007 |
Imprint: | Xlibris US | Language: | English |
Author: | Kenyon B. De Greene |
ISBN: | 9781469105680 |
Publisher: | Xlibris US |
Publication: | April 10, 2007 |
Imprint: | Xlibris US |
Language: | English |
This transdisciplinary book deals with the most critical problems now challenging our and our worlds survival: human overpopulation, vast environmental destruction, persistent ignorance in spite of purported advances in education, dominance of neoconservative thinking incommensurate with the world/s problems, increased religiosity that harks back to the Middle Ages, anti-science thinking, persistent warfare, exhausted and outmoded philosophies of people and Nature, Capitalism gone berserk, and devolution of democracy, These seemingly diverse areas arc integrated by the theory of complex systems, Avoiding Pollyannaish optimist, this hook is must reading for all people who want to make up their own minds about where we go from here.
This transdisciplinary book deals with the most critical problems now challenging our and our worlds survival: human overpopulation, vast environmental destruction, persistent ignorance in spite of purported advances in education, dominance of neoconservative thinking incommensurate with the world/s problems, increased religiosity that harks back to the Middle Ages, anti-science thinking, persistent warfare, exhausted and outmoded philosophies of people and Nature, Capitalism gone berserk, and devolution of democracy, These seemingly diverse areas arc integrated by the theory of complex systems, Avoiding Pollyannaish optimist, this hook is must reading for all people who want to make up their own minds about where we go from here.