Deep futures : our prospects for survival /

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Author / Creator:Cocks, Doug, 1937-
Imprint:Montréal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003.
Montr�eal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2003.
Description:1 online resource (xvii, 332 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11174913
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ISBN:9780773571754
0773571752
9780773526716
0773526714
0773526722
9780773526723
0868404934
9780868404936
Notes:"A UNSW Press book"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-320) and index.
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Summary:Annotation Deep Futures addresses many questions, largely about the future of humanity, such as: Will the human lineage survive, reasonably happily, the twenty-first century? Assuming we survive, will this millennium be particularly difficult ... or just plain difficult? Will we eventually become extinct (like most species) or continue to evolve? Deep Futures is divided into three parts. Part 1 looks at what serious futuregazers see as the prospects for the human and post-human lineage, looking at and beyond this century and this millennium, far into the future. Part 2 reflects on ideas for thinking about the future drawn from an array of disciplines and on broad questions that will continue to confront humanity. Part 3 identifies science-based strategies that may be adopted to maximise humanity's chances for surviving 'well', into the near future and beyond. Book jacket.
Other form:Print version: Cocks, Doug, 1937- Deep futures 0773526714