Ebook: A user's guide to the crisis of civilization and how to save it

Climate catastrophe -- Energy scarcity -- Food insecurity -- Economic instability -- International terrorism -- The militarization tendency -- Diagnosis : interrogating and the global political economy -- Prognosis : the post-carbon revolution and the renewal of civilization.;It often seems that different crises are competing to devastate civilisation. This book argues that financial meltdown, food shortages, dwindling oil reserves, and terrorism need to be considered as part of the same ailing system. It investigates all of these crises as trends and processes that belong to a single global system.