You Can Change the World: An Action Handbook for the 21st Century

by Ervin Laszlo

We can create a more peaceful and sustainable world. This action handbook for the 21st century tells us how. The message "you can change the world" is addressed to each of us and is important for the whole of mankind. Mikhail Gorbachev writes in the introduction that this book helps us understand the current situation of our planet - our shared situation - and find the path we must take. The relationship between humans and nature has become more and more complex and strained; the air has become poisoned; the rivers polluted and the forests decimated. The number of contradictions keeps growing and they are becoming deeper. Society is beginnning to show the symptoms of sickness. This book helps us determine what we must do, and how we must do it to ensure our common well-being. The future that confronts us is open, and we can all help to shape it.

Genres: Sustainability

110 pages, Hardcover

First published September 30, 2002

About the author

Ervin Laszlo is a systems philosopher, integral theorist, and classical pianist. Twice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, he has authored more than 70 books, which have been translated into nineteen languages, and has published in excess of four hundred articles and research papers, including six volumes of piano recordings.

Dr. Laszlo is generally recognized as the founder of systems philosophy and general evolution theory, and serves as the founder-director of the General Evolution Research Group and as past president of the International Society for the Systems Sciences. He is also the recipient of the highest degree in philosophy and human sciences from the Sorbonne, the University of Paris, as well as of the coveted Artist Diploma of the Franz Liszt Academy of Budapest. Additional prizes and awards include four honorary doctorates.

His appointments have included research grants at Yale and Princeton Universities, professorships for philosophy, systems sciences, and future sciences at the Universities of Houston, Portland State, and Indiana, as well as Northwestern University and the State University of New York. His career also included guest professorships at various universities in Europe and the Far East. In addition, he worked as program director for the United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR). In 1999 he was was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Canadian International Institute of Advanced Studies in Systems Research and Cybernetics.

For many years he has served as president of the Club of Budapest, which he founded. He is an advisor to the UNESCO Director General, ambassador of the International Delphic Council, member of both the International Academy of Science, World Academy of Arts and Science, and the International Academy of Philosophy.

Reviews

[Daniël · Rating 4 out of 5]

Heerlijk idealistisch boek, die me hoop gaf dat ik een steentje bij kon dragen aan een betere wereld.