{"product_id":"book-dxr0","title":"Commanding Hope","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the #1 BESTSELLING thought leader: Calling on history, cutting-edge research, complexity science and even \u003ci\u003eLord of the Rings\u003c\/i\u003e, Thomas Homer-Dixon lays out the tools we can command to rescue a world on the brink.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor three decades, the renowned author of \u003ci\u003eThe Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Ingenuity Gap: Can We Solve the Problems of the Future?\u003c\/i\u003e, has examined the threats to our future security--predicting a deteriorating global environment, extreme economic stresses, mass migrations, social instability and wide political violence if humankind continued on its current course. He was called The Doom Meister, but we now see how prescient he was. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eToday just about everything we've known and relied on (our natural environment, economy, societies, cultures and institutions) is changing dramatically--too often for the worse. Without radical new approaches, our planet will become unrecognizable as well as poorer, more violent, more authoritarian.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn his fascinating long-awaited new book (dedicated to his young children), he calls on his extraordinary knowledge of complexity science, of how societies work and can evolve, and of our capacity to handle threats, to show that we can shift human civilization onto a decisively new path if we mobilize our minds, spirits, imaginations and collective values. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCommanding Hope\u003c\/i\u003e marshals a fascinating, accessible argument for reinvigorating our cognitive strengths and belief systems to affect urgent systemic change, strengthen our economies and cultures, and renew our hope in a positive future for everyone on Earth.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49327307948336,"sku":"BDdxr0","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/349948-dxr0-Square.jpg?v=1733689651","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-dxr0","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}