Name: Global Catastrophes and Trends: The Next Fifty Years (The mit Press) (en Inglés)
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Author: Vaclav Smil
ISBN: 9780262518222

portada Global Catastrophes and Trends: The Next Fifty Years (The mit Press) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Mit Press

Autor

Vaclav Smil

Año

2012

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

307

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

ISBN

9780262518222

ISBN13

9780262518222

Categorías

Ciencia, ingeniería y tecnología medioambientales

Global Catastrophes and Trends: The Next Fifty Years (The mit Press) (en Inglés)

Vaclav Smil (Autor) · Mit Press · Tapa Blanda

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A wide-ranging, interdisciplinary look at global changes that may occur over the next fifty years―whether sudden and cataclysmic world-changing events or gradually unfolding trends.Fundamental change occurs most often in one of two ways: as a “fatal discontinuity,” a sudden catastrophic event that is potentially world changing, or as a persistent, gradual trend. Global catastrophes include volcanic eruptions, viral pandemics, wars, and large-scale terrorist attacks; trends are demographic, environmental, economic, and political shifts that unfold over time. In this provocative book, scientist Vaclav Smil takes a wide-ranging, interdisciplinary look at the catastrophes and trends the next fifty years may bring.Smil first looks at rare but cataclysmic events, both natural and human-produced, then at trends of global importance, including the transition from fossil fuels to other energy sources and growing economic and social inequality. He also considers environmental change―in some ways an amalgam of sudden discontinuities and gradual change―and assesses the often misunderstood complexities of global warming.Global Catastrophes and Trends does not come down on the side of either doom-and-gloom scenarios or techno-euphoria. Instead, Smil argues that understanding change will help us reverse negative trends and minimize the risk of catastrophe.