085309
New York
1954
13×19,5
meki
290
engleski
Cijena: 10,00 EUR
The First Edition. Harrison Brown's The Challenge of Man's Future (1954) is a pioneering, highly prescient book that uses a scientific approach to examine the long-term prospects and predicaments facing human civilization, particularly focusing on the interrelated issues of exponential population growth, resource depletion, and the environmental consequences of industrialization. The book is widely considered one of the first serious modern treatises on the future of humanity from a global, analytical perspective. In this seminal work, Brown, a geochemist and professor at the California Institute of Technology and the University of Chicago's Institute for Nuclear Studies, approached the future not with abstract philosophy, but with hard data and scientific projections based on the facts available in the mid-20th century. The book is a rigorous, thought-provoking inquiry into whether industrial culture can survive its own rapid expansion and how humanity might navigate the critical transitions necessary for long-term survival.
