Human Survivability in the 21st Century?: Proceedings of a Symposium Held in November 1998 Under the Auspices of the Royal Society of Canada

This volume continues the inquiry launched by the Royal Society of Canada's 1997 publication, "Can Canada Survive? Under What Terms and Conditions?," and pursued in the 1998 volume, "The Well-Being of Canada" (both published by the University of Toronto Press). The present collection examines the prospects for human survival and progress in the next century.

Six papers, given by experts in their respective fields, discuss the earth's ecosystems, the threat of environmental scarcity, the tension between local ecological knowledge and governmental management practices, the need for restoration of social capital and cohesion, the possibility of human extinction, and the use of the Copernican Principle as a framework to view human survivability.

This volume underlines the dramatic changes taking place in our time and stresses the urgent need for new thinking and new educational techniques if humanity is to adapt and survive in the coming century.

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