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Global Meltdown Immigration, Multiculturalism, and National Breakdown in the New World Disorder
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Joseph Wayne Smith, Graham Lyons, Evonne Moore
Book Code: C5600
ISBN: 0-275-95600-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-275-95600-4
192 pages
Praeger Publishers
Publication: 4/30/1998
List Price: $79.95 (UK Sterling Price: £44.95)
Availability: Print on demand
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects: Reviews:
  • This book would be useful as a stimulating and provocative reader for courses in future studies. It also makes a valuable contribution to other programs in social sciences through its presentation of ecological and political economic perspectives on sustainable development and societal change.
    —Urban Geography     2003
  • This is a powerful book which deserves to be widely read....
    —The Social Contract     .
  • Endorsement From Garrett Hardin
    Professor Emeritus of Human Ecology
    University of California, Santa Barbara:     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.
Description: The modern world is, in the authors' view, undergoing the process of meltdown--global meltdown. Having argued in an earlier book that humankind is headed for an environmental catastrophe that will either eliminate the human species or greatly reduce our numbers, the authors now focus on the breakdown of organized social order that will occur when the ecological crisis happens. Believing that civilization as we know it will not last, even without a definitive environmental cataclysm, they explore here the social, political, and philosophical ramifications of this vision. After outlining the interaction of the forces of environmental destruction, economic rationalism, and technological revolution, this book shows their impact on social problems such as immigration, racial and ethnic conflict, and the loss of personal, spiritual, and religious meaning. In the first chapter, the authors consider the effects of these social conflicts in both the non-Western and the Western world, concluding that the global meltdown theory is supported by the worldwide rise of terrorism. Chapter 2 discusses the technological and ecological forces they believe will led to a "new world disorder." The work then goes on to use Australia as a case study illustrating the collision of population and environment. In the concluding chapter, the authors support their thesis further with a review of the literature on the subject.
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
LC Card Number: 97-33226
LCC Class: HC79
Dewey Class: 363
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