Key Features:Offers readers an overview of the crisis that will face modern industrial society as fossil fuels and other non-renewable resources become scarce and prohibitively expensiveExplains how various aspects of this crisis - energy and resource scarcity, agriculture, economics, biophysical carrying capacity, biodiversity, optimum human population, poverty, the dangers and opportunities of science, and the need for improved global governance - are closely linkedUtilizes a broad, multidisciplinary approach that is needed for a comprehensive discussion.