Confronting The Future: Australia And The World: The Next Hundred Years
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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What will Australia and the world look like in the next hundred years? In Confronting the Future, renowned biologist and thinker Charles Birch presents a sweeping and urgent examination of the environmental, social, and political challenges that humanity must face if civilisation is to survive and flourish. Set against the backdrop of a rapidly industrialising world, Birch argues that Australia stands at a critical crossroads, where decisions made today will irrevocably shape the trajectory of generations to come. With unflinching clarity, he chronicles the mounting pressures of population growth, resource depletion, and ecological destruction, issuing a clarion call for radical rethinking of how modern societies organise themselves. Birch writes with the authority of a scientist and the moral urgency of a humanist, weaving together ecology, economics, and ethics into a cohesive and compelling vision for a sustainable future. His prose is measured yet impassioned, accessible to the general reader while intellectually rigorous enough to challenge specialists. Confronting the Future remains a landmark work in Australian environmental and social thought, and its central question — whether humanity has the wisdom and will to change course — haunts the reader long after the final page is turned.
Author: Charles Birch
Format: Paperback
Genre: Australian history
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
What will Australia and the world look like in the next hundred years? In Confronting the Future, renowned biologist and thinker Charles Birch presents a sweeping and urgent examination of the environmental, social, and political challenges that humanity must face if civilisation is to survive and flourish. Set against the backdrop of a rapidly industrialising world, Birch argues that Australia stands at a critical crossroads, where decisions made today will irrevocably shape the trajectory of generations to come. With unflinching clarity, he chronicles the mounting pressures of population growth, resource depletion, and ecological destruction, issuing a clarion call for radical rethinking of how modern societies organise themselves. Birch writes with the authority of a scientist and the moral urgency of a humanist, weaving together ecology, economics, and ethics into a cohesive and compelling vision for a sustainable future. His prose is measured yet impassioned, accessible to the general reader while intellectually rigorous enough to challenge specialists. Confronting the Future remains a landmark work in Australian environmental and social thought, and its central question — whether humanity has the wisdom and will to change course — haunts the reader long after the final page is turned.