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 enlarge | Author: John L. Petersen
Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 20899
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 4.6 x 0.5
ISBN: 1555916619
Dewey Decimal Number: 320.60973
EAN: 9781555916619
ASIN: 1555916619
Publication Date: May 14, 2008
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 A Must Read Call to Action June 5, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
John L. Petersen, the well regarded futurist and head of The Arlington Institute, has written A Vision for 2012, a must read timely essay-length call to action for citizens and governments. In Petersen's view, global warming, fossil fuel depletion, recent economic market disruptions and more, portend massive societal and planetary disruption in the next decade. For some, the year 2012 is a year of foretold doom. 2012 is Petersen's symbolic way of saying "Stop thinking about tomorrow" as the song goes, and start thinking about today. A self-proclaimed optimist, Petersen balances one set of trend lines with another that point to scientific and technological breakthroughs, from new medicines, to the Internet, as holding out the possibility for resolving the challenges we face. But there is no way around the need for government planning and action, and here Petersen is flying on a wing and a prayer. As the book also concedes, governments and society in general usually act conservatively and plan and deal in the less painful policy world of incremental, short term advance until the crisis occurs (think about our failure to address the ticking time bomb of entitlement obligations). We have a lot of political talk about Manhattan projects to develop alternatives to oil or reduce greenhouse emissions (called for in the book) but we know that governments and the citizenry usually act after the fact (e.g. Katrina). Global cooperation is even more difficult and the United States, which the author calls on to lead, has not exactly led over the last decade (think Kyoto) Petersen hopes it can be different if we work together---using technologies like the collaborative Internet---to think, plan, and advocate for change together. Read the book.
 Vision for 2012 May 28, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
A must read by any accounting. Our leadership for the next decade must pay close attention to the myriad of events that will shape the very future of mankind and all living things on this planet. This is not a Right vs Left issue, its rather a set of understandings we all need to comprehend and take action through our elected representives at all levels.
Owen Wormser
Royal Oak, Maryland
A Vision for 2012: Planning for Extraordinary Change
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