ABSTRACT
The clock is relentlessly ticking! Our world teeters on a knife-edge between a peaceful and prosperous future for all, and a dark winter of death and destruction that threatens to smother the light of civilization. Within 30 years, in the 2030 decade, six powerful 'drivers' will converge with unprecedented force in a statistical spike that could tear humanity apart and plunge the world into a new Dark Age. Depleted fuel supplies, massive population growth, poverty, global climate change, famine, growing water shortages and international lawlessness are on a crash course with potentially catastrophic consequences. In the face of both doomsaying and denial over the state of our world, Colin Mason cuts through the rhetoric and reams of conflicting data to muster the evidence to illustrate a broad picture of the world as it is, and our possible futures. Ultimately his message is clear; we must act decisively, collectively and immediately to alter the trajectory of humanity away from catastrophe. Offering over 100 priorities for immediate action, The 2030 Spike serves as a guidebook for humanity through the treacherous minefields and wastelands ahead to a bright, peaceful and prosperous future in which all humans have the opportunity to thrive and build a better civilization. This book is powerful and essential reading for all people concerned with the future of humanity and planet earth.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |71 pages
Crisis Mode
chapter |6 pages
The Drivers
chapter |12 pages
Running Out of Fuel: The Coming Energy Crunch
chapter |8 pages
Population and Poverty
chapter |12 pages
Climate: Too Hot or Too Cold?
chapter |12 pages
Famines: Food and Water
chapter |9 pages
One World?
chapter |11 pages
The Fourth Horseman
part |47 pages
Directions
chapter |8 pages
Which Way Science?
chapter |11 pages
In the Genes: New Plants – And People?
chapter |7 pages
The Values of the Sea
chapter |9 pages
Multinationals: Good Business or Bad?
chapter |10 pages
The Trouble with Money
part |48 pages
Upgrading The Individual
chapter |7 pages
The Pursuit of Happiness
chapter |5 pages
Love, Family and Freedom
chapter |10 pages
Habitat: The Dilemma of the Cities
chapter |8 pages
Making Education Work
chapter |8 pages
Health and Wealth
chapter |8 pages
Religion: The Cement of Society?
part |61 pages
The New Society?