The End of the World Is Just the Beginning: Mapping the Collapse of Globalization

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• An extraordinary and provocative book about how today’s crises foreshadow a coming era of widespread global upheaval–and why it will lead to human liberation. We live in historic times. An economic crash, ecological catastrophe, and political convulsion have combined to shake our societies’ foundations.
• As many searches for the causes of this turmoil–from declining oil supplies to income inequality–fewer seem aware that we are already experiencing its transformative effects: increasingly powerful earthquakes near Tokyo; rising sea levels along coastal cities worldwide; ever more frequent storms in New York City; intense droughts across Australia’s vast interior desert country.
• All these phenomena are symptoms of complex processes unfolding underfoot which pose urgent threats as well as important opportunities.
• In writing this book, Wilfrid Laurier University professor David Orr has endeavored not only to describe these transformations but also to predict their course over the next decade or two and analyze what they portend for humankind’s future prospects.