All Tomorrow's Crises : The challenges of the future are known, but our responses are rarely adequate

Climate change, the depletion of natural resources, globalization,migration: these mega-trends of global change are already deeply impactingour lives. Yet politicians have responded with short-sighted agendasin inverse proportion to the existential importance of the problems. A scientificanalysis of the effects of these trends on the future of humankind isin order—but we must then not only formulate but also carry out strategiesfor tackling the attendant problems.