NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the former vice president and New York Times bestselling author comes An Inconvenient Truth for everythingmdasha frank and clear-eyed assessment of six critical drivers of global change in the decades to come Ours is a time of revolutionary change that has no precedent in history With the same passion he brought to the challenge of climate change and with his decades of experience on the front lines of global policy Al Gore surveys our planetrsquos beclouded horizon and offers a sober learned and ultimately hopeful forecast in the visionary tradition of Alvin Tofflerrsquos Future Shock and John Naisbittrsquos Megatrends In The Future Gore identifies the emerging forces that are reshaping our world bull Ever-increasing economic globalization has led to the emergence of what he labels ldquoEarth Incrdquomdashan integrated holistic entity with a new and different relationship to capital labor consumer markets and national governments than in the past bull The worldwide digital communications Internet and computer revolutions have led to the emergence of ldquothe Global Mindrdquo which links the thoughts and feelings of billions of people and connects intelligent machines robots ubiquitous sensors and databases bull The balance of global political economic and military power is shifting more profoundly than at any time in the last five hundred yearsmdashfrom a US-centered system to one with multiple emerging centers of power from nation-states to private actors and from political systems to markets bull A deeply flawed economic compass is leading us to unsustainable growth in consumption pollution flows and depletion of the planetrsquos strategic resources of topsoil freshwater and living species bull Genomic biotechnology neuroscience and life sciences revolutions are radically transforming the fields of medicine agriculture and molecular sciencemdashand are putting control of evolution in human hands bull There has been a radical disruption of the relationship between human beings and the earthrsquos ecosystems along with the beginning of a revolutionary transformation of energy systems agriculture transportation and construction worldwide From his earliest days in public life Al Gore has been warning us of the promise and peril of emergent truthsmdashno matter how ldquoinconvenientrdquo they may seem to be As absorbing as it is visionary The Future is a map of the world to come from a man who has looked ahead before and been proven all too rightPraise for The Future ldquoMagisterial The passion is unmistakable So is the knowledge Practically every page offers an illuminationrdquomdashBloomberg ldquoIn The Future Gore takes on a subject whose scale matches that of his achievements and ambitionrdquomdashThe New York Times Book Review ldquoHistorically grounded Gorersquos strengths lie in his passion for the subject and in his ability to take the long view by putting current events and trends in historical contextrdquomdashPublishers Weekly ldquoProvocative smart densely argued a tour de force of Big Picture thinkingrdquomdashKirkus Reviews starred review ldquoA luminously intelligent analysis that is packed with arresting ideas and factsrdquomdashThe Guardian.
