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Want to grasp how we got to the point we are at today with the economy, global conflict, or just our what have you done for me in the past 30 minutes attitude. Read this book.Optimism will result from your understanding where we are after reading the book, the breakdown that will propel us forward is upon us.thank god.
A book not as any other book, it reminds us that humanity faces a reckoning, we must acknowledge what is wrong and stop walking on the path of destruction or face destruction and be obliterated. The time has come when we either make a BREAKTHROUGH or we simply BREAKDOWN.
What we need is general agreement that all should live "in a way that allows all other people to live as well." Unbridled consumption is the way to global destruction. Laszlo claims we are just now moving beyond the Iron Age and what comes next is not clear. The worse things get, however, the more people will work for improvement. Like David Korten (The Great Turning), Laszlo optimistically looks to all those who meditate, eat wisely, recycle, etc. as the vanguard of the new age.
I very rarely review more than one book by the same author, but in this case it is absolutely justified.In the 1960s the Club of Rome was one of the first organizations to declare that there were "limits to growth." Today that seems so obvious, but then the very idea stirred up a hornet's nest of opposition.There are still plenty of people who are convinced that either there is no problem, or that we are going to innovate our way out of any potential difficulties.Many other experts are now of the opinion that we have left everything too late, and that we are on an inevitable downward path toward oblivion.In Ervin Laszlo's new book, he acknowledges the seriousness of our situation, but is one of the hardy band of pioneers who see the problems as a "decision window" where we face not only the danger of total global collapse, but also the opportunity for renewal of the world.We all of us need to change the way in which we see the world and then to take action.Or else we shall probably not be here that much longer.This message is indeed very positive.According to the author, we just need to wake up. And this book outlines a precise map for doing exactly that.Highly recommended.
THE CHAOS POINT: THE WORLD AT THE CROSSROADS predicts we have seven years to avoid global collapse and promote strategies for renewal - and tells how the modern world will change in that period of time. Chapters maintain we're at a critical junction in history and comes from the founder of systems philosophy and general evolution theory: THE CHAOS POINT builds upon his principles and surveys trends, how to head them off, and how to build a more sustainable world.Diane C. DonovanCalifornia Bookwatch
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