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Hi David,

I followed up on the author.  The degree of crisis we are facing is well described here:
http://nafeez.blogspot.com/2010/09/sliding-toward-climate-catastrophe.html

The solution has to involve geoengineering, to reduce CO2 levels well below 350 ppm, and to cool the Arctic, although people are for ever saying that geoengineering itself is too dangerous!  Here's the latest:

http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=53021

Perhaps we should introduce Nafeez and the Policy Institute to the idea of geoengineering.

Cheers,

John

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David Cromwell wrote:

Hello,

 

I’ve got hold of this book below and it looks highly relevant to the very motivation behind the setting up of the Crisis Forum (and this mailing list). Well worth close examination...

 

Best wishes

 

David Cromwell

 

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http://www.plutobooks.com/display.asp?K=9780745330532&

 

 

A User's Guide to the Crisis of Civilization And How to Save It

Product Description

It often seems that different crises are competing to devastate civilisation. This book argues that financial meltdown, dwindling oil reserves, terrorism and food shortages need to be considered as part of the same ailing system.

Most accounts of our contemporary global crises such as climate change, or the threat of terrorism, focus on one area, or another, to the exclusion of others. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed argues that the unwillingness of experts to look outside their own fields explains why there is so much disagreement and misunderstanding about particular crises. This book attempts to investigate all of these crises, not as isolated events, but as trends and processes that belong to a single global system. We are therefore not dealing with a 'clash of civilisations', as Huntington argued. Rather, we are dealing with a fundamental crisis of civilisation itself.

This book provides a stark warning of the consequences of failing to take a broad view of the problems facing the world and shows how catastrophe can be avoided.

About The Author

Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed is Executive Director of the Institute for Policy Research and Development in London. He has taught international relations, contemporary history, empire and globalisation at the School of Global Studies, University of Sussex and the Politics & History Unit, Brunel University. His previous books include 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).