new book – ‘The Watchman’s Rattle: Thinking Our Way Out of Extinction’
Written on October 11, 2010
The Watchman’s Rattle: Thinking Our Way Out of Extinction by Rebecca Costa (Vanguard Press, 2010).
Product description from the publisher:
Why can’t we solve our problems anymore? Why do threats such as the Gulf oil spill, worldwide recession, terrorism, and global warming suddenly seem unstoppable? Are there limits to the kinds of problems humans can solve?
Rebecca Costa confronts—and offers a solution to—these questions in her highly anticipated and game-changing book, The Watchman’s Rattle.
Costa pulls headlines from today’s news to demonstrate how accelerating complexity quickly outpaces the rate at which the human brain can develop new capabilities. With compelling evidence based on research into the rise and fall of the Mayan, Khmer, and Roman empires, Costa shows how the tendency to find a quick fix to problems by focusing on symptoms—instead of searching for permanent solutions—leads to frightening long-term consequences: society’s ability to solve its most challenging, intractable problems becomes gridlocked, progress slows, and collapse ensues.
A provocative new voice in the tradition of thought leaders Thomas Friedman, Jared Diamond, and Malcolm Gladwell, Costa reveals how we can reverse the downward spiral. Part history, part social science, part biology, The Watchman’s Rattle is sure to provoke, engage, and incite change.
See also: Author’s website
Filed in: culture,new books,psychology.
the earth global events has changed,base on man’s need,the human being is no more contented in our wants there by finding it difficult to solve our problems.yes there is a limit human being can solve their problem. man can not force nature rather, we develop nature at this point man can leave together without violent,terrorism, and global warming.