Futures Beyond Dystopia – Creating Social Foresight Reviewed by Lynn Elen Burton Slaughter, Richard A. Futures Beyond Dystopia : Creating Social Foresight. RoutledgeFalmer Publishers: New York, 2004. Abstract Believing that the motivation to avoid future dangers is matched by the human need to create plans and move forward, futurist Richard Slaughter makes a clarion call…
Manifesto for the Earth, Clearview, London, 2006 There can be few people in the world better placed to have an informed view on the issues that plague our time than former President of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev. His book, Manifesto for the Earth, sets out a brief, but coherent, analysis of the global situation…
Now or Never. A Sustainable Future for Australia? Quarterly Essay #31, 2008, Black Inc., Melbourne Somewhere I have a copy of a book called “The Way Out: Radical Alternatives for Australia”. Its main theme is that the commune movement of the 1960s provided an escape route from our descent into the desperate territory outlined by…
Climate Code Red: the Case for Emergency Action, Spratt, D. & Sutton, P. Scribe, Melbourne, 2008 This book has three main sections. Part 1 covers similar ground to Lynas’ work Six Degrees and summarises the scientific evidence for disastrous global warming, including the ‘feedback processes’ that look likely to accelerate it. Part 2 looks at…
This book has three main sections. Part 1 covers similar ground to Lynas’ work Six Degrees and summarises the scientific evidence for disastrous global warming, including the ‘feedback processes’ that look likely to accelerate it. Part 2 looks at the actions necessary, including eliminating all CO2 emissions, recognising a global emergency and putting in place…
What is futures education? (To open click here) This is one version of a generic paper that evolved over time. It covers some of the core aspects of this vital, but often overlooked, topic. These include sections on: the substance of futures study, the origins of FS in education, elements of a rationale, content, process and…
Review of Richard Slaughter’s Biggest Wake Up Call in History Just as global consciousness and global civilization are starting to emerge within humankind, its birth has become complicated – threatened by a crisis that is starting to spiral out of control. This crisis – often known as the global problematique – is not easy to…
Review of The Biggest Wake-Up Call in History Futurist Richard Slaughter has never shied away from engaging tough and critical issues. And over his career, the issues have been getting tougher and more critical–perhaps reaching a zenith with The Biggest Wake Up Call in History. In this work he tackles what he–and many others–see as…
The Biggest Wake-Up Call in History There are many books that describe climate change and the problems that the world faces due to industrial growth and pollution, but few have tackled the problem from anything other than an environmental or scientific perspective. Richard Slaughter’s book, The Biggest Wake up Call in History, describes the environmental problems…
The Biggest Wake-Up Call in History This is the most arresting title I have seen on a book in a long while. I was compelled to read it. Richard A Slaughter has in my opinion written an important book here. It is about the “civilisational moment” we find ourselves in at the beginning of the…