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. Material type: TextPublication details: Sterling, VA : Earthscan. 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. Being forewarned, we are forearmed, and he draws on his own extensive political experience to describe how much we can do as individuals, and above all collectively, not merely to avert crisis but to engineer thoroughgoing change that can usher in genuinely sustainable and valuable alternatives to the way we live now. The 2030 spike : countdown to global catastrophe / Colin Mason. The picture he paints is stark, and yet it is not bleak. Taken together, these trends point to a potentially apocalyptic period, if not for the planet itself then certainly for human societies and for humankind. In this compelling book, and update to The 2030 Spike, Colin Mason explains in clear and irrefutable terms what is going on � largely below the surface of our daily or weekly news bulletins. Taken together, these trends point to a potentially apocalyptic period, if not for the planet itself then certainly for human societies and for humankind. Whether it is the growth of world population, of greenhouse gas concentrations and the accelerating rate of climate change, the running down of oil and natural gas reserves, growing shortages of fresh water for agriculture, industry and domestic use, or the increasing difficulty in controlling epidemic diseases � we are facing a mounting global crisis that will peak in less than a generation, around the year 2030. Has the future a future? Are we bringing history to an end? Observing any one of several individual but critical trends suggests that, without rapid and positive action, history may have only a very short way to run. The 2030 Spike: Countdown to Global Catastrophe by Colin Mason Paperback 32.95 Hardcover 54.95 Paperback 32.95 eBook 24.

The 2030 spike by colin mason