Commanding Hope: The Power We Have to Renew a World in Peril

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Drawing on history, cutting-edge research, and complexity science, the author presents tools to rescue a world on the brink. Over three decades, he has examined threats to our future security, predicting a deteriorating global environment, extreme economic stresses, mass migrations, social instability, and political violence if humanity continues on its current path. Once labeled The Doom Meister, his insights have proven prescient as our natural environment, economy, societies, cultures, and institutions undergo dramatic changes—often for the worse. Without radical new approaches, our planet risks becoming unrecognizable, poorer, more violent, and authoritarian. In this long-awaited work, dedicated to his young children, he draws on his profound understanding of complexity science and societal evolution to propose that we can shift civilization onto a new path. By mobilizing our minds, spirits, imaginations, and collective values, we can enact urgent systemic change. The book offers an engaging argument for reinvigorating our cognitive strengths and belief systems, aiming to strengthen economies and cultures while renewing hope for a positive future for all on Earth.