The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change

The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

From the former vice president and #1 New York Times bestselling author comes An Inconvenient Truth for everythingâ€”a frank and clear-eyed assessment of six critical drivers of global change in the decades to come.
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Ours is a time of revolutionary change that has no precedent in history. With the same passion he brought to the challenge of climate change, and with his decades of experience on the front lines of global policy, Al Gore surveys our planetâ€™s beclouded horizon and offers a sober, learned, and ultimately hopeful forecast in the visionary tradition of Alvin Tofflerâ€™s Future Shock and John Naisbittâ€™s Megatrends. In The Future, Gore identifies the emerging forces that are reshaping our world:
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â€¢ Ever-increasing economic globalization has led to the emergence of what he labels â€œEarth Inc.â€â€”an integrated holistic entity with a new and different relationship to capital, labor, consumer markets, and national governments than in the past.
â€¢ The worldwide digital communications, Internet, and computer revolutions have led to the emergence of â€œthe Global Mind,â€ which links the thoughts and feelings of billions of people and connects intelligent machines, robots, ubiquitous sensors, and databases.
â€¢ The balance of global political, economic, and military power is shifting more profoundly than at any time in the last five hundred yearsâ€”from a U.S.-centered system to one with multiple emerging centers of power, from nation-states to private actors, and from political systems to markets.
â€¢ A deeply flawed economic compass is leading us to unsustainable growth in consumption, pollution flows, and depletion of the planetâ€™s strategic resources of topsoil, freshwater, and living species.
â€¢ Genomic, biotechnology, neuroscience, and life sciences revolutions are radically transforming the fields of medicine, agriculture, and molecular scienceâ€”and are putting control of evolution in human hands.
â€¢ There has been a radical disruption of the relationship between human beings and the earthâ€™s ecosystems, along with the beginning of a revolutionary transformation of energy systems, agriculture, transportation, and construction worldwide.
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From his earliest days in public life, Al Gore has been warning us of the promise and peril of emergent truthsâ€”no matter how â€œinconvenientâ€ they may seem to be. As absorbing as it is visionary, The Future is a map of the world to come, from a man who has looked ahead before and been proven all too right.

Praise for The Future
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â€œMagisterial . . . The passion is unmistakable. So is the knowledge. Practically every page offers an illumination.â€â€”Bloomberg
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â€œIn The Future . . . Gore takes on a subject whose scale matches that of his achievements and ambition.â€â€”The New York Times Book Review
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â€œHistorically grounded . . . Goreâ€™s strengths lie in his passion for the subject and in his ability to take the long view by putting current events and trends in historical context.â€â€”Publishers Weekly
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â€œProvocative, smart, densely argued . . . a tour de force of Big Picture thinking.â€â€”Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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â€œA luminously intelligent analysis that is packed with arresting ideas and facts.â€â€”The Guardian
Country USA
Manufacturer Random House
Binding Hardcover
ReleaseDate 2013-01-29
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780812992946

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Random House
Binding	Hardcover
ReleaseDate	2013-01-29
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780812992946

The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change

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