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John Scales Avery
CIVILIZATION’S CRISIS: A SET OF LINKED CHALLENGES [EPUB ebook]
A Set of Linked Challenges

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Modern civilization faces a broad spectrum of daunting problems, but rational solutions are available for them all. This book explores the following issues: (1) Threats to the environment and climate change; (2) a growing population and vanishing resources; (3) the global food and refugee crisis; (4) intolerable economic inequality; (5) the threat of nuclear war; (6) the military-industrial complex; and (7) limits to growth. These problems are closely interlinked, and their possible solutions are discussed in this book.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 416 ● ISBN 9789813222472 ● File size 19.2 MB ● Publisher World Scientific Publishing Company ● City Singapore ● Country SG ● Published 2017 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 5523102 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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