Realistic Hope

By Angela Wilkinson (editor), Betty Sue Flowers (editor),

Book cover of Realistic Hope: Facing Global Challenges

Book description

We are running out of water, robots will take our jobs, we are eating ourselves to an early death, old age pension and health systems are bankrupting governments, and an immigration crisis is unravelling the European integration project. A growing number of nightmares, perfect storms, and global catastrophes create fear…


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1 author picked Realistic Hope as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

The book addresses a dozen key challenges in our collective future.

Though the chapters are uneven in quality, I found that the book had many good ideas on how to address these challenges. The editors encourage broad community consultations regarding our futures, systems analysis of how challenges interact, and policy experimentation.

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