Global Meltdown: Immigration, Multiculturalism, and National Breakdown in the New World Disorder

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Believing that civilization as we know it will not last, even without a definitive environmental cataclysm, the authors of this book explore the social, political and philosophical ramifications of this vision. After outlining the interaction of the forces of environmental destruction, economic rationalism and technological revolution, this book seeks to show their impact on social problems such as immigration, racial and ethnic conflict, and the loss of personal, spiritual and religious meaning. In the first chapter, the authors consider the effects of these social conflicts in both the non-Western and the Western world, concluding that the global meltdown theory is supported by the worldwide rise of terrorism. Chapter two discusses the technological and ecological forces they believe will lead to a "new world disorder". The work then goes on to use Australia as a case study illustrating the collision of population and environment. In the concluding chapter, the authors support their thesis further with a review of the literature on the subject.

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"When a judicious list is made of the most important analyses of the survival problems bequeathed to us by the entire 20th century, I predict that Global Meltdown will be near the top of it. This book is clear, it is profound, and it gives us hopeful and imaginative views of what may be done about our situation. The rest is up to us." Garrett Hardin, Professr Emeritus of Human Ecology, University of California, Santa Barbara

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JOSEPH WAYNE SMITH is Senior Research Fellow at The University of Adelaide, Australia - GRAHAM LYONS is a leading South Australian businessman, agriculturist, and environmentalist. He coauthored Healing a Wounded World: Economics, Ecology, and Health for a Sustainable Life (Praeger) with Joseph Wayne Smith in 1997 - EVONNE MOORE is a research assistant at The University of Adelaide.