Publisher's Synopsis
A POCKET MANUAL TO SAVE THE PLANET offers a series of specific and practical proposals for dealing with the three most important issues that threaten to destroy our national and inter-national societies to one extent or another: GLOBAL DEPRESSION: This possibility will be triggered if and when our government defaults on its mountain of debts and essentially declares bankruptcy, which will be followed by a global depression. This is predicted by many of our best economists to happen sometime between roughly 2014 and 2016. GLOBAL WARMING: This peril is presently melting our ice caps and mountain glaciers, slowly raising the level of our oceans until they potentially flood the low-lying areas of our global civilization; that is where about 50% of our global population lives within about 50 miles of our coast lines. This is variously predicted by our best environmental scientists to happen by about the end of the 21st century with about 3-6 feet of water, so it requires action now to prevent it because it is already set in place to happen; and many scientists say we have already passed the point where we can prevent it from happening. GLOBAL ARMAMENTS: We now spend, as a planet, approximately $1.75 trillion a year on armaments and wars of one kind or another. If we continue to spend our scarce resources on killing each other rather than preventing global depressions and defeating global warming, we will be hopelessly unable to create peace on our planet, and therefore we may allow the destruction of our global civilization at the hands of global warming. This inability to live in peace rather than war already resulted in our killing 300 million human beings during the 20th century. That figure is about equal to the total population of the United States. GLOBAL PEACE. So we are a doomed global civilization if we do not prevent a global depression, defeat global warming, and achieve global disarmament. We can ignore all of the warning signs of our coming devastation, but it is our futures that we are gambling away by our lethargy, as well as the futures of our children and grandchildren. This is because, in order to prevent the invasion of these ocean waters, we need to become a completely coordinated global unit, that acts according to a single, global, heartbeat. This is a level of global co-operation that we will never be able to achieve in the middle of the social chaos of a global depression or continuous military conflicts, so we could never defeat global warming before it invades our coastal civilizations with 3-6 feet of water. Therefore: If we don't create a stable, global economy; if we don't achieve global disarmament; then we won't be able to defeat global warming and prevent the invasion of our coastal areas with 3-6 feet of water; so we can kiss our global civilization good-bye. But if we start soon enough; if we lay down our arms together; if we work together with each other all over the world to prevent a global depression and to defeat global warming; then we will be able to live in global peace. "They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war anymore." (Isaiah 2:4) We can finally fulfill Isaiah's prophesy if we will take it to heart and live in peace rather than in war. These goals are within our grasp, if we will take these necessary steps.
