A User's Guide to the Crisis of Civilization: And How to Save It

by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed

Book Overview

It often seems that different crises are competing to devastate civilization. This book argues that climate change, financial meltdown, dwindling oil reserves, terrorism and food shortages need to be considered as part of the same ailing system.

Most accounts of 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745330533
• ISBN13: 9780745330532
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.0"