The book explores the central question facing humanity today: how can we best survive the ten
great existential challenges that are now coming together to confront us? Besides describing
these challenges from the latest scientific perspectives it also outlines and integrates the
solutions both at global and individual level and concludes optimistically. This book brings
together in one easy-to-read work the principal issues facing humanity. It is written for the
two next generations who will have to deal with the compounding risks they inherit and which
flow from overpopulation resource pressures and human nature. The author examines ten
intersecting areas of activity (mass extinction resource depletion WMD climate change
universal toxicity food crises population and urban expansion pandemic disease dangerous
new technologies and self-delusion) which pose manifest risks to civilization and potentially
to our species' long-term future. This isn't a book just about problems. It is also about
solutions. Every chapter concludes with clear conclusions and consensus advice on what needs to
be done at global level -but it also empowers individuals with what they can do for themselves
to make a difference. Unlike other books it offers integrated solutions across the areas of
greatest risk. It explains why Homo sapiens is no longer an appropriate name for our species
and what should be done about it.
