Five Horsemen of the Modern World - Climate, Food, Water, Disease, and Obesity

In recent decades, we have seen five perilous and interlocking trends dominate global discourse: irreversible climate change, extreme food and water shortages, rising chronic illnesses, and rampant obesity. Why can't we make any progress in counteracting these problems despite vast expenditures of intellectual, institutional, and social capital? What makes these global emergencies the "wicked problems" that resist our best efforts and only grow more daunting? Only through well-crafted political, regulatory, industrial, and cultural counterstrategies can we change enough minds to check these threats. With big thinking on issues that are usually evaluated separately, this book is sure to scramble partisan divides and provoke unusual, heated debate.

About the author

Daniel Callahan is president emeritus and cofounder of the Hastings Center, which focuses on ethical and policy issues. He has published seventeen volumes, including Taming the Beloved Beast: Why Medical Technology Costs Are Destroying Our Health Care System; Medicine and the Market: Equity vs. Choice; and The Research Imperative: What Price Better Health?

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"Callahan is subtle in expressing his point of view - you never feel like he is pushing an ideology or a single-minded solution at the reader. He lets the data speak first and then he sets the path." - Sheldon Krimsky, Lenore Stern, Tufts University, Author of Stem Cell Dialogues

Product details

• Authors: Daniel Callahan, Callahan Daniel
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.05.2016
• EAN: 9780231170024
• ISBN: 978-0-231-17002-4
• No. of pages: 416
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; NATURE / Natural Resources, SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, Climate Change, MEDICAL / Public Health, MEDICAL / Preventive Medicine, Environmental Management, Public health & preventive medicine, Public health and preventive medicine