Saturday, January 05, 2008
This is a good article of the same name as Author Benjamin Barber's Book, Jihad vs. McWorld. It still holds up after a decade and a half, and was formative in my thinking when I read it in college.
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/199203/barber
A good book covering the instability and risk facing us:
Our Final Hour: A Scientist's Warning: How Terror, Error, and Environmental Disaster Threaten Humankind's Future In This Century - On Earth and Beyond.
From Wikipedia:
Our Final Hour is a 2003 book by the British Astronomer Royal Sir Martin Rees. The full title of the book is Our Final Hour: A Scientist's Warning: How Terror, Error, and Environmental Disaster Threaten Humankind's Future In This Century - On Earth and Beyond. It was published in the United Kingdom under the less dramatic (and more precise) title Our Final Century: Will the Human Race Survive the Twenty-first Century?.
The premise of the book is that the Earth and human survival are in far greater danger from the potential effects of modern technology than is commonly realised, and that the 21st century may be a critical moment in history when humanity's fate is decided. Rees discusses a range of existential risks confronting humanity, and controversially estimates that the probability of extinction before 2100 AD is around 50 per cent, based on the possibility of malign or accidental release of destructive technology.
Full entry with links:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Final_Hour
Steven Hawking on the future of the human race and civilization on Earth.
The human race must move to a planet beyond our Solar System to protect the future of the species, physicist Professor Stephen Hawking has warned.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6158855.stm
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