Surviving the 21st Century Humanity's Ten Great Challenges and How We Can Overcome Them /

• Main Author: Cribb, Julian (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Popular works.; Energy policy.; Energy and state.; Climate change.; Environmental sciences.; Biodiversity.; Nature.; Environment.; Nature conservation.; Popular Science.; Popular Science in Nature and Environment.; Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts.; Nature Conservation.; Energy Policy, Economics and Management.; Environmental Science and Engineering.

The book explores the central question facing humanity today: how can we best survive the ten great existential challenges that are now coming together to confront us? Besides describing these challenges from the latest scientific perspectives, it also outlines and integrates the solutions, both at...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword
• List of tables and figures
• Chapter 1. The Self-Worshipper (Homo suilaudans)
• Chapter 2 The Terminator (Homo exterminans)
• Chapter 3. The Degrader (Homo eversor)
• Chapter 4. The Butcher (Homo carnifex)
• Chapter 5: The Baker (Homo pistor)
• Chapter 6. The Poisoner (Homo veneficus)
• Chapter 7. The Devourer (Homo devorans)
• Chapter 8. The Urbanite (Homo urbanus)
• Chapter 9. The Self-Deceiver (Homo delusus)
• Chapter 10. The Getting of Wisdom (Homo sapientior).