The End of the Future Author:Jean Gimpel This book represents the first calm, detailed, and rational description of the imminent end of western industrial civilization as we know it. Despite this alarming premise Gimpel is far from pessimistic, save in the short term: with the sure hand of the historian, he emphasizes how humanity has always recovered from its previous collapses in the... more » past, and will certainly do so again. The unique value of this book is that it gives us a baseline from which we can now work into the future.« less