The Planet of the Thinking Animal: Surviving the 21st Century

Global warming is reality; it is no longer a theory. Practical people faced with the job of countering the threats of potentially dramatic climate surprises, melting icecaps, and sea-level rises are seeking solutions to lower and hold constant the emission of greenhouse gases. We will need to reduce them by 60 to 80 percent in a short time—by the year 2050. Sea-level rises resulting in flooding in low-lying countries are the most obvious impacts we will have to live with until we turn the greenhouse ship around. As a global society, we are now faced with some big questions. How do we feed and provide water to the extra five billion people who will be on the planet in forty years time? What are our choices when oil runs out? Professor Tor Hundloe presents us with two options: change the way we live, or find two more planets to support the world’s burgeoning population.