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Al Gore - The Future

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From the former vice president and #1 New York Times bestselling author comes An Inconvenient Truth for everything--a frank and clear-eyed assessment of six critical drivers of global change in the decades to come.
Ours is a time of revolutionary change that has no precedent in history. With the same passion he brought to the challenge of climate change, and with his decades of experience on the front lines of global policy, Al Gore surveys our planets beclouded horizon and offers a sober, learned, and ultimately hopeful forecast in the visionary tradition of Alvin Tofflers Future Shock and John Naisbitts Megatrends. In The Future, Gore identifies the emerging forces that are reshaping our world:

  • Ever-increasing economic globalization has led to the emergence of what he labels Earth Inc.--an integrated holistic entity with a new and different relationship to capital,...
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    Copyright 2013 by Albert Gore Jr All rights reserved Published in the United - photo 1
    Copyright 2013 by Albert Gore Jr All rights reserved Published in the United - photo 2

    Copyright 2013 by Albert Gore, Jr.

    All rights reserved.

    Published in the United States by Random House, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

    Random House and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.

    Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

    Gore, Albert.
    The future : six drivers of global change / by Al Gore.
    p. cm.
    Includes bibliographical references.
    eISBN: 978-0-679-64430-9
    1. Social change. 2. Economic history21st century. 3. Technological innovations. 4. Global environmental change. 5. Globalization. I. Title.
    HM831.G685 2013
    303.4dc23 2012039890

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    Cover design: Base Art Co.

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    CONTENTS 1 EARTH INC 2 THE GLOBAL MIND 3 POWER IN THE BALANCE 4 OUTGROWTH 5 - photo 3
    CONTENTS

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    EARTH INC.
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    THE GLOBAL MIND
    3
    POWER IN THE BALANCE
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    OUTGROWTH
    5
    THE REINVENTION OF LIFE AND DEATH
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    THE EDGE

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    INTRODUCTION L IKE MANY FULFILLING JOURNEYS THIS BOOK BEGAN NOT WITH - photo 5
    INTRODUCTION

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    L IKE MANY FULFILLING JOURNEYS , THIS BOOK BEGAN NOT WITH ANSWERS but with a question. Eight years ago, when I was on the road, someone asked me: What are the drivers of global change? I listed several of the usual suspects and left it at that. Yet the next morning, on the long plane flight home, the question kept pulling me back, demanding that I answer it more precisely and accuratelynot by relying on preconceived dogma but by letting the emerging evidence about an emerging world take me where it would. The question, it turned out, had a future of its own. I started an outline on my computer and spent several hours listing headings and subheadings, then changing their rank order and relative magnitude, moving them from one category to another and filling in more and more details after each rereading.

    As I spent the ensuing years raising awareness about climate change and pursuing a business career, I continued to revisit, revise, and sharpen the outline until finally, two years ago, I concluded that it would not leave me alone until I dug in and tried to thoroughly answer the question that had turned into something of an obsession.

    What emerged was this book, a book about the six most important drivers of global change, how they are converging and interacting with one another, where they are taking us, and how we as human beingsand as a global civilizationcan best affect the way these changes unfold. In order to reclaim control of our destiny and shape the future, we must think freshly and clearly about the crucial choices that confront us as a result of:

    The emergence of a deeply interconnected global economy that increasingly operates as a fully integrated holistic entity with a completely new and different relationship to capital flows, labor, consumer markets, and national governments than in the past;

    The emergence of a planet-wide electronic communications grid connecting the thoughts and feelings of billions of people and linking them to rapidly expanding volumes of data, to a fast growing web of sensors being embedded ubiquitously throughout the world, and to increasingly intelligent devices, robots, and thinking machines, the smartest of which already exceed the capabilities of humans in performing a growing list of discrete mental tasks and may soon surpass us in manifestations of intelligence we have always assumed would remain the unique province of our species;

    The emergence of a completely new balance of political, economic, and military power in the world that is radically different from the equilibrium that characterized the second half of the twentieth century, during which the United States of America provided global leadership and stabilityshifting influence and initiative from West to East, from wealthy countries to rapidly emerging centers of power throughout the world, from nation-states to private actors, and from political systems to markets;

    The emergence of rapid unsustainable growthin population; cities; resource consumption; depletion of topsoil, freshwater supplies, and living species; pollution flows; and economic output that is measured and guided by an absurd and distorted set of universally accepted metrics that blinds us to the destructive consequences of the self-deceiving choices we are routinely making;

    The emergence of a revolutionary new set of powerful biological, biochemical, genetic, and materials science technologies that are enabling us to reconstitute the molecular design of all solid matter, reweave the fabric of life itself, alter the physical form, traits, characteristics, and properties of plants, animals, and people, seize active control over evolution, cross the ancient lines dividing species, and invent entirely new ones never imagined in nature; and

    The emergence of a radically new relationship between the aggregate power of human civilization and the Earths ecological systems, including especially the most vulnerablethe atmosphere and climate balance upon which the continued flourishing of humankind dependsand the beginning of a massive global transformation of our energy, industrial, agricultural, and construction technologies in order to reestablish a healthy and balanced relationship between human civilization and the future.

    This book is data-driven and is based on deep research and reportingnot speculation, alarmism, nave optimism, or blue-sky conjecture. It represents the culmination of a multiyear effort to investigate, decipher, and present the best available evidence and what the worlds leading experts tell us about the future we are now in the process of creating.

    There is a clear consensus that the future now emerging will be extremely different from anything we have ever known in the past. It is a difference not of degree but of kind. There is no prior period of change that remotely resembles what humanity is about to experience. We have gone through revolutionary periods of change before, but none as powerful or as pregnant with the fraternal twinsperil and opportunityas the ones that are beginning to unfold. Nor have we ever experienced so many revolutionary changes unfolding simultaneously and converging with one another.

    This is not a book primarily about the climate crisis, though the climate crisis is one of the six emergent changes that are quickly reshaping our world, and its interaction with the other five drivers of change has revealed to me new ways to understand it. Nor is it primarily about the degradation of democracy in the United States and the dysfunctionality of governance in the world communitythough I continue to believe that these leadership crises must be resolved in order for humankind to reclaim control of our destiny. Indeed all six of these emergent revolutionary changes are threatening to overtake us at a moment in history when there is a dangerous vacuum of global leadership.

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