Havoc Thy Name Is Twenty-First Century!

<p>Just to <I>maintain</I> our standard of living we need to grow the worldwide economy at an unsustainable rate.</p><p>As we seek to hit such lofty targets we're bound to deplete our resources and cause environmental crises on a scale that we have never seen before. Revolutions terrorism and wars will follow.</p><p>Peter Pogany examines the problems we face and argues that human culture is governed by thermodynamic cycles of steady states interrupted by chaotic transitions. Specifically he postulates that a steady state was interrupted by World War I with a chaotic transition following World War II which has led us to the current world order.</p><p>His theory predicts that global society is drifting toward a new form of self-organization that will recognize limits to demographic-economic expansion - but only after we go through a new chaotic transition that will start sometime between now and the 2030s.</p><p><I>Havoc They Name is Twenty-First Century</I> delivers sobering thoughts on where the world is headed but it also offers a glimpse of a bright future that we can embrace once we get through the darkness to come.</p>