{"product_id":"future-six-drivers-of-global-change","title":"Future: Six Drivers of Global Change","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eFuture: Six Drivers of Global Change\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eAlbert Gore Jr\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780812992946\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eRandom House\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2013\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003e1\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\"NEW YORK TIMES \"BESTSELLER \u003cbr\u003eFrom the former vice president and #1 \"New York Times\" bestselling author comes \"An Inconvenient Truth\" for everything--a frank and clear-eyed assessment of six critical drivers of global change in the decades to come. \u003cbr\u003e Ours is a time of revolutionary change that has no precedent in history. With the same passion he brought to the challenge of climate change, and with his decades of experience on the front lines of global policy, Al Gore surveys our planet's beclouded horizon and offers a sober, learned, and ultimately hopeful forecast in the visionary tradition of Alvin Toffler's \"Future Shock\" and John Naisbitt's \"Megatrends.\" In \"The Future, \" Gore identifies the emerging forces that are reshaping our world: \u003cbr\u003e - Ever-increasing economic globalization has led to the emergence of what he labels \"Earth Inc.\"--an integrated holistic entity with a new and different relationship to capital, labor, consumer markets, and national governments than in the past.\u003cbr\u003e - The worldwide digital communications, Internet, and computer revolutions have led to the emergence of \"the Global Mind,\" which links the thoughts and feelings of billions of people and connects intelligent machines, robots, ubiquitous sensors, and databases.\u003cbr\u003e - The balance of global political, economic, and military power is shifting more profoundly than at any time in the last five hundred years--from a U.S.-centered system to one with multiple emerging centers of power, from nation-states to private actors, and from political systems to markets.\u003cbr\u003e - A deeply flawed economic compass is leading us to unsustainable growth in consumption, pollution flows, and depletion of the planet's strategic resources of topsoil, freshwater, and living species.\u003cbr\u003e - Genomic, biotechnology, neuroscience, and life sciences revolutions are radically transforming the fields of medicine, agriculture, and molecular science--and are putting control of evolution in human hands.\u003cbr\u003e - There\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Random House","offers":[{"title":"Future: Six Drivers of Global Change | Albert Gore Jr | Hardcover | 9780812992946 | Used: Very Good | Sociology 1577557","offer_id":50597833146626,"sku":"1577557","price":28.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/91Mxr7HdbHL.jpg?v=1791144626","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/future-six-drivers-of-global-change","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}