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In this book Jeffrey Sachs, one of the world’s leading economists, analyses and addresses the great, and inter-connected, global challenges of the twenty-first century. A series of cascading threats to global well-being the most significant being environmental degradation and rapid population growth – bear down upon our increasingly crowded planet. All of them are solvable, Sachs argues, but potentially disastrous if left unattended.
Our task is to achieve truly sustainable development, by which he means finding a global course which enables the world to benefit from the spread of prosperity while ensuring that we don’t destroy the eco-systems which keep us alive and our place in nature which helps sustain our values. How do we move forward together, benefiting from our increasing technological mastery, avoiding the terrible dangers of climate change, mass famines, violent conflicts, population explosions in some parts of the world and collapses in others and world wide pandemic diseases? How do we steer global politics when there are now so many who believe they are entitled to a hand on the wheel?
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