Suchergebnisse

Brooks reviews 'The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstruction of Social Order' by Francis Fukuyama.

Losing Earth -- Defining a new geological epoch : the stratigraphic justification -- Sticking to the science : the evolution of the Anthropocene concept -- The Anthropocene : why is it seen as a rupture? -- A deep adaptation agenda -- Wisdom in an age of climate crisis -- Are we doomed? Conscious evaluation : the case for hope -- Appendix: Questions about the Anthropocene disruption.

THE AUTHOR PREDICTS THAT IN TEN YEARS THERE WILL STILL BE A STATE CALLING ITSELF THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA. MORE LIKELY THAN NOT, HOWEVER, IT WILL NO LONGER BE GOVERNED SOLELY BY THE CHINESE COMMUNIST PARTY. HE THINKS THERE IS GOING TO BE SIGNIFICANT CHANGE, EVEN DISRUPTIVE CHANGE, BUT PROBABLY NOT DISINTEGRATIVE CHANGE. IT IS HIGHLY UNLIKELY THAT COMMUNIST PARTY DICTATORSHIP AND INCREASING SOCIOECONOMIC PLURALISM CAN LONG CO-EXIST.

BECAUSE OF VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS, LARGE-SCALE EVACUATIONS WERE IMPLEMENTED IN MONTSERRAT IN 1995-96 AND REMAINED IN EFFECT INDEFINITELY. DUE TO THE UNCERTAINTY CAUSED BY THE VOLCANIC ACTIVITY ON THE SMALL ISLAND, THE BRITISH GOVERNOR DECIDED TO ESTABLISH A COMMISSION TO TEST PUBLIC OPINION ON THE DESIRABILITY OF HOLDING GENERAL ELECTIONS, WHICH THE CONSTITUTION MANDATED BETWEEN OCTOBER 1996 AND JANUARY 1997. THE QUESTION OF WHEN TO HOLD THE ELECTIONS PROVED TO BE VERY CONTROVERSIAL.