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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: Global grand transitions over time have produced a mixed balance of benefits and harms.
Chapter 3: With its aging, shrinking populace and rapidly growing megacities, Japan embodies the transition’s next stage ahead.
Chapter 4: Agricultural shifts transformed how we produce and consume food worldwide.
Chapter 5: We’re undertaking a promising new energy transition, but it will take longer than expected overall.
Chapter 6: Fast economic growth exacts a price — for people and the environment too.
Chapter 7: Humans have left an immense mark on the Earth, and some changes are profoundly devastating and irreversible today.
Chapter 8: Transitions to date haven’t been entirely good or entirely bad, so our future forecasts should stay balanced as well.
Chapter 9: We need a worldwide push to cut inequality and safeguard the environment, but finding compromise will not be easy either.
Description
Grand Transitions (2020) offers a sweeping overview of global transitions, from population growth to environmental changes. It examines the ways that we’ve shaped the world, for better or worse, and looks at the challenges facing humanity in the decades to come.
Who Should Listen
- People who want to understand world history, and how we got where we are today
- Environmentalists, and anyone interested in the state of the planet
- Realists looking for a future forecast based on facts