Three Generations Ahead: An Exploration of World Problems and What Really Matters

ISBN-13: 9781412093446 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 352 str.

Cal Fager

Opis

Three Generations Ahead is a comprehensive approach to the problems facing mankind and its progeny, as well as the personal and cultural barriers that keep us from resolving them. Written for the layman, Three Generations Ahead sorts through the blizzard of conflicting news reports and scientific and political opinions to establish a framework of the problems based on their impact. First, global problems such as population growth, environmental degradation and rapid climatic change are identified and explored. Following these is an exploration of the international and regional problems that torment so much of humanity and consume so much of mankind's attention and resources. Next, Mr. Fager explores the psychological and cultural factors that act as barriers to our resolution of these problems, the factors that many of us aren't even aware of that influence our behavior and determine our own, and our national leaders' decisions. Finally, he presents realistic recommendations on how to individually and collectively address these problems.
Written without political or pedantic bias, Mr. Fager's Three Generations Ahead presents a refreshingly honest appraisal of these problems and the actions of nations and leaders to address them. Ever mindful of the consequences of these problems for our children and grandchildren he places the responsibility for these problems and their consequences squarely where they belong, at the feet of not only the world's political and cultural leaders but with every individual citizen as well. Often blunt in his criticism of cultural and political institutions and leaders that ignore or exacerbate these problems, he slices through much of their rhetoric toexpose not only their failures to act to bring any of these problems under control, but their deliberate actions to both mislead the average person into supporting decisions and policies that contribute to their growth.