A User's Guide to the Crisis of Civilization
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A User's Guide to the Crisis of Civilization by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed
Argues that the many world crises, including the financial meltdown, climate change and terrorism, are connected problems of a failing global system.
'Forceful, with particularly good sections on agribusiness, US policies of 'energy security', and what the author terms the 'securitisation' of ordinary life by Western governments' -- Guardian
'This important analysis exposes vital truths and challenges much conventional wisdomIt deserves to be widely read' -- Mark Curtis, Honorary Research Fellow, University of Strathclyde; former Head of Policy, Action Aid and Christian Aid; former Research Fellow, Royal Institute of International Affairs; author, Web of Deceit: Britain’s Real Role in the World and Unpeople: Britain’s Secret Human Rights Abuses
'Important ... the first book to systematically explore their interconnections and place them within a single comprehensive narrative. That makes it a very worthwhile read for policy-makers everywhere' -- Rt. Hon. Michael Meacher MP, UK Minister of State for the Environment (1997-2003); Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Security (1975-79); Under-Secretary of State for Industry (1974-75)
'Few thinkers weave as many threads into a tapestry as Nafeez Ahmed has done so superbly in this book' -- Dr. Jeremy Leggett, UK Department of Trade & Industry’s Renewables Advisory Board (2002-2006); CEO, Solarcentury, member of UK Industry Taskforce on Peak Oil & Energy Security; author, Half Gone and The Carbon War
'Confronts the reader with the stark message that life as we know it is unsustainable' -- Kees van der Pijl, Professor of International Relations, School of Global Studies, University of Sussex; Chair of Department of International Relations and Director of Centre for Global Political Economy (2000-2006); Leverhulme Major Research Fellow; author, Modes of Foreign Relations and Political
'A staggeringly comprehensive bird's-eye view of the gaping cracks that are appearing in global industrial civilisation' -- Richard Heinberg, Senior Fellow, Post Carbon Institute; author, The Party’s Over, Powerdown and Peak Everything
'The clearest synthesis to date of the systemic problems facing human civilisation' -- Jeff Vail, Former US Department of the Interior Counterterrorism Analyst; former US Air Force Intelligence Officer for global energy infrastructure; author, A Theory of Power
'In this magisterial exposition of the multiple intersecting challenges facing humanity in our century Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed points to real solutions' -- David Schwartzman, Professor of Biology, Howard University, Washington DC; author, Life, Temperature and the Earth: the self-organizing biosphere
'This important analysis exposes vital truths and challenges much conventional wisdomIt deserves to be widely read' -- Mark Curtis, Honorary Research Fellow, University of Strathclyde; former Head of Policy, Action Aid and Christian Aid; former Research Fellow, Royal Institute of International Affairs; author, Web of Deceit: Britain’s Real Role in the World and Unpeople: Britain’s Secret Human Rights Abuses
'Important ... the first book to systematically explore their interconnections and place them within a single comprehensive narrative. That makes it a very worthwhile read for policy-makers everywhere' -- Rt. Hon. Michael Meacher MP, UK Minister of State for the Environment (1997-2003); Under-Secretary of State for Health and Social Security (1975-79); Under-Secretary of State for Industry (1974-75)
'Few thinkers weave as many threads into a tapestry as Nafeez Ahmed has done so superbly in this book' -- Dr. Jeremy Leggett, UK Department of Trade & Industry’s Renewables Advisory Board (2002-2006); CEO, Solarcentury, member of UK Industry Taskforce on Peak Oil & Energy Security; author, Half Gone and The Carbon War
'Confronts the reader with the stark message that life as we know it is unsustainable' -- Kees van der Pijl, Professor of International Relations, School of Global Studies, University of Sussex; Chair of Department of International Relations and Director of Centre for Global Political Economy (2000-2006); Leverhulme Major Research Fellow; author, Modes of Foreign Relations and Political
'A staggeringly comprehensive bird's-eye view of the gaping cracks that are appearing in global industrial civilisation' -- Richard Heinberg, Senior Fellow, Post Carbon Institute; author, The Party’s Over, Powerdown and Peak Everything
'The clearest synthesis to date of the systemic problems facing human civilisation' -- Jeff Vail, Former US Department of the Interior Counterterrorism Analyst; former US Air Force Intelligence Officer for global energy infrastructure; author, A Theory of Power
'In this magisterial exposition of the multiple intersecting challenges facing humanity in our century Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed points to real solutions' -- David Schwartzman, Professor of Biology, Howard University, Washington DC; author, Life, Temperature and the Earth: the self-organizing biosphere
Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed is Executive Director of the Institute for Policy Research and Development in London. He is the author of A User's Guide to the Crisis of Civilization (Pluto, 2010), The War on Truth: Disinformation and the Anatomy of Terrorism (2005) and Behind the War on Terror: Western Secret Strategy and the Struggle for Iraq (2003).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780745330532 |
| ISBN 10 | 0745330533 |
| Title | A User's Guide to the Crisis of Civilization |
| Author | Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pluto Press |
| Year published | 2010-08-06 |
| Number of pages | 312 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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