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A Global Forecast for the Next Forty Years

Jorgen Randers

In 2052, Jorgen Randers issues a progress report and makes a forecast for the next forty years. To do this, he asked dozens of experts to weigh in with their best predictions on how our economies, energy supplies, natural resources, climate, food, fisheries, militaries, political divisions, cities, psyches, and more will take shape in the coming decades. He then synthesised those scenarios into a global forecast of life as we will most likely know it in the years ahead.

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The good news: we will see impressive advances in resource efficiency, and an increasing focus on human well-being rather than on per capita income growth. But this change might not come as we expect. Future growth in population and GDP, for instance, will be constrained in surprising ways-by rapid fertility decline as result of increased urbanisation, productivity decline as a result of social unrest, and continuing poverty among the poorest 2 billion world citizens. Runaway global warming, too, is likely.

So, how do we prepare for the years ahead? With heart, fact, and wisdom, 2052 guides us along a realistic path into the future and discusses what readers can do to ensure a better life for themselves and their children during the increasing turmoil of the next forty years.

Awards

  • Atlas Awards, 2012 Accomplishments
  • Association of Professional Futurists, Most Important Futures Work, Second Place
  • German Environmental Yearbook Book of the Month (August 2012)
  • The Society of Environmental Journalists, Rachel Carson Environment Book Award, Honourable Mention

Product Details

Published 2012
Chelsea Green Publishing
Paperback, 416 pages.

ISBN: 9781603584210

Additional information

Weight .63 kg
Dimensions 230 × 150 × 27 mm

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