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FUTURE WATCH STUDIES READING LIST UPDATED 2011 Information on How to Order Books In the sections below, we have linked books to the Amazon.com site where it is available. Other books or reports are available through the institution which publishes them. For more books and information on how to order out of print books, see our Book Ordering Guide. (OP= Out of Print) World Future Fund - World Future Outlook Report Portrait of Our Planet - A Collection of Charts and Pictures (PDF) America and the World 2030 - A View in Pictures World on the Edge (2011) Free Download of Book, PDF PBS Series: Journey to Planet Earth Lester Brown's Annual Global Budget for Environmental Reform (Way too optimistic but a good start.) SOME HIGHLY RELEVANT WEB PAGES Web Site on Extinctions Human beings are exterminating other forms of life at the highest rate in millions of years. It shows the savage nature of today's world "order". American Society of Civil Engineers Report Card Excellent study of America's decaying infrastructure. WFF Map on Global Forest Destruction Daniel Beltra's Photos of the Natural World and Its Destruction by Man GENERAL ENVIRONMENTAL BOOKS A New Green History of the World: The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations by Clive Ponting The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning by James Lovelock The Revenge of Gaia: Earth's Climate Crisis and the Fate of Humanity by James Lovelock Collapse by Jared Diamond Vital Signs
(Annual) Worldwatch Institute Online Features UN Human Development Report (Annual) United Nations Millennium Development Goals United Nations Population Fund United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization Climate Change IPCC - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Gateway to the United Nations System's Work on Climate Change Pictures of Impact of Climate Change BBC Version DATA International Monetary Fund- Country Index International Labor Organization ENERGY BP Statistical Review of World Energy Industry (PDF) U.S.
Defense Department CIA Mapping the Global Future 2025 Project (2008) CIA Mapping the Global Future 2020 Project (2004)
Angus Maddison Home Site Publications
White House Council of
Economic Advisers Publications
Energy Information Administration
FedNet - Broadcast Coverage of
the United States Government WFF Details on Cost of 2008-2009 Financial Bailout LUXEMBURG
INCOME STUDY (OP= Out of Print) WFF Map on Global Forest Destruction Global Forest Watch Maps Amazing maps of the destruction of the world's forests American Society of Civil Engineers Report Card Excellent study of America's decaying infrastructure. T. Boone Pickens Plan To Save America One of America's leading oil men endorses renewable energy. US Debt Report This contains a statistic rarely seen since it is buried in the data put out by the Federal Reserve. It's the ratio of total U.S. debt, public and private, to the economy. It is not pleasant reading. It's at an all-time high. Unfortunately, the format of this site is very sloppy but the data is real. How world youth sees America An interesting Washington Post study Check out a hip hop artist from Beirut (video). Laurie Garrett Excellent books on crisis of global public health. The Good Old Days - They Were Terrible by Otto Bettman. A truly excellent book filled with marvelous pictures. A healthy cure for naive nostalgia about the American past was. Shows America's long-term poverty and crime problems. Death of the Liberal Class by Chris Hedges A very creative book about the failure and decline of American liberalism in modern times. Written from a somewhat radical left perspective we don't agree with all of it but overall a very creative view about a lack of courage in America's ruling elites. The Way We Never Were by Stephanie Coontz. A good antidote for delusions about the lack of government intervention in America's past. Shows how "independent" pioneers received astronomical subsidies from the government in things like land grants (of land stolen from the Native Americans). If today's inner city residents got this kind of cash from the government, poverty would almost vanish. Poverty and Society by Daniel Devine. (OP) Excellent book on government social programs around the world. Shows history of programs. Excellent weapon to knock down delusions that U.S. government is "too big". (In reality it's the smallest in the developed world as a share of GNP.)
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