The modern world is, in the authors' view, undergoing the process of meltdown―global meltdown. Having argued in an earlier book that humankind is headed for an environmental catastrophe that will either eliminate the human species or greatly reduce our numbers, the authors now focus on the breakdown of organized social order that will occur when the ecological crisis happens. Believing that civilization as we know it will not last, even without a definitive environmental cataclysm, they explore here the social, political, and philosophical ramifications of this vision.After outlining the interaction of the forces of environmental destruction, economic rationalism, and technological revolution, this book shows their impact on social problems such as immigration, racial and ethnic conflict, and the loss of personal, spiritual, and religious meaning. In the first chapter, the authors consider the effects of these social conflicts in both the non-Western and the Western world, concluding that the global meltdown theory is supported by the worldwide rise of terrorism. Chapter 2 discusses the technological and ecological forces they believe will led to a new world disorder. The work then goes on to use Australia as a case study illustrating the collision of population and environment. In the concluding chapter, the authors support their thesis further with a review of the literature on the subject.

Global Meltdown: Immigration, Multiculturalism, and National Breakdown in the New World Disorder (History of Cartography)

Politics & Social Sciences

Lyons, Graham

Smith, Joseph Wayne

Moore, Evonne

Social Sciences

Praeger

This work examines the environmental crisis within the context of the internationalization or globalization of people and nations. The existence of life on Earth - and certainly human life - has been called into question in the twentieth century, first through the threat of nuclear obliteration and climate alteration (the enhanced greenhouse effect and destruction of the Earth’s ozone shield), environmental pollution, exploding human population growth and the destruction of species and genetic diversity. Many people believe that these ’global’ dangers represent a crisis of such a magnitude that they can only be effectively dealt with by a ’global’ response, in particular by the abandonment of the sovereignty of nations and the construction of a one world government in some shape or form. This ’new world order’ would also save us from ourselves, bringing about an era of sustainable peace on Earth. It is argued here that this internationalist vision cannot succeed; it will destroy the environment, not preserve it, and bring about an era of turmoil and warfare, not peace. In particular, it is demonstrated that the environmental crisis is in part a product of internationalism. This book examines the deleterious consequences of internationalism with respect to major environmental and political debates such as ecologically sustainable development, technology and human freedom, economic rationalism and economic internationalism, immigration and human population expansion, racial and ethnic conflict and the globalization of epidemic diseases.

Is the End Nigh?: Internationalism, Global Chaos and the Destruction of the Earth (Avebury Series in Philosophy)

Philosophy

Routledge

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