{"product_id":"book-e7xm","title":"The Upside of Down","description":"From the author of the #1 bestselling and Governor General’s Literary Award-winning  \u003ci\u003eThe Ingenuity Gap\u003c\/i\u003e – an essential addition to the bookshelf of every thinking person  with a stake in our world and our civilization.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This is a groundbreaking, essential  book for our times. Thomas Homer-Dixon brings to bear his formidable understanding  of the urgent problems that confront our world to clarify their scope and deep causes.   \u003ci\u003eThe Upside of Down\u003c\/i\u003e provides a vivid picture of the immense stresses that are simultaneously  converging on our societies and threatening a breakdown that would profoundly shake  civilization.  It shows, too, how we can choose a better route into the future.   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e With the immediacy that characterized his award-winning international bestseller,  \u003ci\u003eThe Ingenuity Gap\u003c\/i\u003e, Homer-Dixon takes us on a remarkable journey – from the fall of  the Roman empire to the devastation of the 9\/11 attacks in New York, from Toronto  in the 2003 blackout to the ancient temples of Lebanon and the wildfires of California.  Incorporating the newest findings from an astonishing array of disciplines, he argues  that the great stresses our world is experiencing – global warming, energy scarcity,  population imbalances, and widening gaps between rich and poor – can’t be looked  at independently. As these stresses combine and converge, the risk of breakdown rises.  The first signs are appearing in the wastelands of the Arctic, the mud-clogged streets  of Gonaïves, Haiti, and the volatile regions of the Middle East and Asia. But while  the consequences of denial in our more perilous world are dire, Homer-Dixon makes  clear that we can use our emerging understanding of the complex systems in which  we live to avoid catastrophic collapse in a way the Roman empire could not. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This  vitally important new book shows how, in the face of breakdown, we can still provide  for the renewal of our global civilization. We are creating the conditions for catastrophe,  but by understanding the underlying principles that make human and natural systems  resilient – and by working together to put those principles into effect – we can  still limit the severity of collapse and foster regeneration, innovation, and renewal.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49327437414704,"sku":"BDe7xm","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/e7xm-Square-cover.jpg?v=1776328036","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-e7xm","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}