Table of Contents

Preface
The Coming Anarchy: The Collapse of Civilization and the Coming of Hell on Earth
The Ecology of Collapse: Technological and Ecological Mechanisms for the Destruction of Civilization
The Remorseless Working of Things: Population Collides with Environment
Global Meltdown: A Tapestry of Turmoil at the End of the Modern Age
Bibliography
Index

Promotional Information

Argues that the modern world, like a nuclear reactor, is undergoing the process of meltdown-global meltdown-due to an impending environmental crisis interacting with worldwide social conflict.

About the Author

JOSEPH WAYNE SMITH is Senior Research Fellow at The University of Adelaide, Australia - GRAHAM LYONS is a leading South Australian businessman, agriculturist, and environmentalist. He coauthored Healing a Wounded World: Economics, Ecology, and Health for a Sustainable Life (Praeger) with Joseph Wayne Smith in 1997 - EVONNE MOORE is a research assistant at The University of Adelaide.

Reviews

"When a judicious list is made of the most important analyses of the survival problems bequeathed to us by the entire 20th century, I predict that Global Meltdown will be near the top of it. This book is clear, it is profound, and it gives us hopeful and imaginative views of what may be done about our situation. The rest is up to us." Garrett Hardin, Professr Emeritus of Human Ecology, University of California, Santa Barbara