From the “about this book” section of the text:
This is no ordinary atlas. It maps and analyses a planet at a critical point in its history — as one species, our own, threatens to disrupt and exhaust its life-support systems. It charts the growing divisions in the human family. And it proposes that we have the chance to redirect our course, and become caretakers of our future.
The New Atlas of Planet Management is a first approach to this challenging task. It organizes the mass of available environmental data, statistical predictions, and often conflicting opinions and solutions into a simple, coherent structure. It is divided into seven sections: Land, Oceans, Elements, Evolution, Humankind, Civilization, and Management; each of these is considered from three perspectives; Potential resources, Crises, and Management alternatives.
This structure enables us to examine any critical area of concern and weigh up; first, what it has to offer; second, where, how, and why things are obviously going wrong; and third, how we might set about putting things right, by applying a range of alternative strategies.
More than a structure for a book, this analytical formula offers one possible approach to planet management. We hope it will spur the rising global debate on our future prospects.
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