Crucial Questions about the FutureUniversity Press of America, 1991 - 133 síður Crucial Questions About the Future presents readers concerned about the long-range future and their place in it with a series of tough but necessary questions and, refreshingly, offers no pat answers. Instead, what is offered is a structured and reason-bound exploration of the complexities of modern life with which the reader, or the future-studies inclined academic, can provide his own answers to these eternal and critical questions. Contents: The Future of Human Civilization; What Is Most Important of All?; Why Do We Act In Ways That Hurt Our Future?; What Will Our Actual Future Turn Out To Be?; How Can We Achieve a Satisfactory Future?; Preventing the Worst Catastrophes; Intelligent Life in the Universe: What Role Will It Play In Our Future?; From Which Aspects of Reality Can We Gain Meaning and Purpose?; How Can Each Person Contribute? |
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... changes if we focus our attention and efforts on them . Deep , far - reaching changes are required . Will we make them soon enough ? If we do not , then deep , far - reaching deterioration and losses will occur , far larger in magnitude ...
... changes if we focus our attention and efforts on them . Deep , far - reaching changes are required . Will we make them soon enough ? If we do not , then deep , far - reaching deterioration and losses will occur , far larger in magnitude ...
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... change is chosen ( once the person decides definitely to go ahead with this particular change , chosen from all the other potential changes ) , accomplishing it is relatively easy . Something similar may be true on the societal level ...
... change is chosen ( once the person decides definitely to go ahead with this particular change , chosen from all the other potential changes ) , accomplishing it is relatively easy . Something similar may be true on the societal level ...
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... changes might actually occur . People might realize that the consequences of not cooperating with the required changes would be far worse than simply going ahead and implementing the changes . Third , it is particularly important that ...
... changes might actually occur . People might realize that the consequences of not cooperating with the required changes would be far worse than simply going ahead and implementing the changes . Third , it is particularly important that ...
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What Is Most Important of All? | 7 |
Why Do We Act in Ways That Hurt Our Future? | 25 |
How Can Each Person Contribute? | 111 |
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