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A User's Guide to the Crisis of Civilization : And How to Save It, Paperback / softback Book

A User's Guide to the Crisis of Civilization : And How to Save It Paperback / softback

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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 focus on one area, such as climate change, or the threat of terrorism, to the exclusion of others.

Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed argues that the unwillingness of experts to consider crises from an interdisciplinary perspective, has resulted in their failure to understand historical events.

From ecology and the environment, to political governance, the global economy and international relations, Ahmed investigates contemporary crises, not as isolated events, but as trends and processes that belong to a single global system.

Ahmed posits that we are therefore not dealing with a 'clash of civilisations', as Samuel P.

Huntington argued. Rather, we are dealing with a fundamental crisis of civilisation itself.

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