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. |
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... negative and positive forces , and potential breakthroughs and solutions , we have some sort of guess about probability . For some people , this guess will be fairly vague : " A highly negative outcome certainly could happen but it's ...
... negative and positive forces , and potential breakthroughs and solutions , we have some sort of guess about probability . For some people , this guess will be fairly vague : " A highly negative outcome certainly could happen but it's ...
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... negative forces and can add our weight to the positive forces . Even if the odds against us were much worse , earnest efforts to achieve a reasonably positive future would still be the most appropriate response . Deep - seated cynicism ...
... negative forces and can add our weight to the positive forces . Even if the odds against us were much worse , earnest efforts to achieve a reasonably positive future would still be the most appropriate response . Deep - seated cynicism ...
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... negative trends , humanity's well - being will gradually become better and better . If the negative changes are roughly equal to the positive changes , we will at least hold our own and achieve a future that is no worse than today's ...
... negative trends , humanity's well - being will gradually become better and better . If the negative changes are roughly equal to the positive changes , we will at least hold our own and achieve a future that is no worse than today's ...
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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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