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The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization
Thomas Homer-Dixon
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| #313058 in Books | Island Press | 2006-11-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.52 x1.40 x6.40l,1.80 | File type: PDF | 448 pages | ||68 of 69 people found the following review helpful.| Depressing, but read it anyway|By James A. Vedda|As I read this book I was reminded of Paul Kennedy's 1993 book "Preparing for the 21st Century." Like Kennedy and other authors in recent decades, Homer-Dixon assesses major global problems and trends with an eye toward how such stresses have converged throughout human history to cause breakdown or collapse of whole societies.|From Publishers Weekly|With easy-to-understand terminology and a mountain of research, Toronto author Homer-Dixon (The Ingenuity Gap) faces down imminent, unavoidable and catastrophic threats to modern civilization, keeping a wary eye on mankind's chances to ada
Environmental disasters. Terrorist wars. Energy scarcity. Economic failure. Is this the world's inevitable fate, a downward spiral that ultimately spells the collapse of societies? Perhaps, says acclaimed author Thomas Homer-Dixon - or perhaps these crises can actually lead to renewal for ourselves and planet earth.
The Upside of Down takes the reader on a mind-stretching tour of societies' management, or mismanagement, of disasters over time. From...
You easily download any file type for your device.The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization | Thomas Homer-Dixon.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
