By Ian Lowe

If civilisation is to outlive, this century must see dramatic transformation, not only in technological ability but additionally in our method of the flora and fauna - and to one another. the line we're traveling on now can in basic terms result in disaster.

The warnings from scientists are unequivocal: we can't maintain our present degrees of intake and progress. we're depleting the Earth's typical assets, destructive its environmental platforms and compromising social balance by means of permitting the distance to widen among wealthy and terrible. briefly, we're eating the longer term. until we extensively re-think the way in which we are living, the attitudes that fostered our improvement can be the resource of our downfall.

In A sizeable Fix, eminent scientist and environmentalist Ian Lowe tackles this quandary head on and issues tips to a sustainable destiny. Incorporating the newest info, he proposes basic alterations to our values and associations, deals far-reaching ideas and a imaginative and prescient of a more fit society - one who is humane, knowledgeable and ecologically minded.

Ian Lowe is an emeritus professor of technology, know-how and society at Griffith college and was once a reviewer for the United Nations-sponsored 2005 Millennium review file and the 2004 record of the foreign Geosphere-Biosphere application. he's the president of the Australian Conservation origin, and is the writer or co-author of sixteen different books, together with A large Fix. Professor Lowe lives at the Sunshine Coast.

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