High noon
Subtitle: twenty global problems, twenty years to solve them
By: J.F. Rischard
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 241
Subjects: Environmental degradation; Global environmental change; Environmental protection
Description: "In High Noon, J. F. Rischard challenges us to take a new approach to the problems of the twenty-first century. Defining and then offering a brief overview of the twenty most important and urgent global problems, Rischard finds that they all have two things in common: They're getting worse, not better, and the standard strategies for dealing with them are woefully inadequate to the task.

The real problem, in other words, is that in our increasingly crowded, interconnected world, we don't have an effective way of addressing the problems such a world creates. Our difficulties belong to the future, but our means of solving them belong to the past."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-226) and index