The world population is growing; developing nations are entering the global marketplace; China wants cars and beef. We are consuming our natural resources at record speed, and half of us are now for the first time ever living in cities.
How will we all get enough good air, water, food and shelter to survive?
Is war the answer?
Yes, according to Roy Woodbridge.
This Vancouver-based environmental policy consultant and author says war is inevitable. Only he calls for a war, not amongst nations, but against a common enemy: ecological decline. His densely packed book challenges us to mobilize for war or else face the dire consequences: “the fury of human competition for basic survival.” Time is not on our side. The international community now has less than 20 years to come up with workable solutions.
Like other doomster books, The Next World War: Tribes, Cities, Nations and Ecological Decline starts with a summary of our...
Kathryn O’Hara is the president of the Canadian Science Writers’ Association and a journalism professor at Carleton University.
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