What We Need to Do

This chapter begins with a resumé of the argument of the book. It then discusses three global problems we must solve if we are to have any hope of a decent future: the climate crisis, the nature crisis—the crisis, that is, of the degradation or destruction of natural habitats, such as tropical rain forests, the catastrophic loss of wild life, and the impending mass extinction of species—and third, the menace posed by nuclear weapons ready for launching at the touch of a button. The extent to which the philosophical, scientific, academic and educational revolution that has been argued for in this book would, if it were to occur, help solve these urgent global problems, is considered.