It seems the great Albert Einstein was right all along when he stated that “We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.” Indeed, according to Care2 :
In 1972, MIT researchers published “Limits to Growth.” In it, they used models to analyze economic data, and predicted that if civilization continued on its path toward increasing consumption, the global economy would collapse by 2030.
Forty years later, instead of seeming unlikely, the prophesies of this controversial study appear to be coming true, right on schedule.
I wanted to publish for Christmas and New Year’s day a list of books I particularly liked in 2008-09 (I already did a selection 
I recently finished reading the Pulitzer winning book Guns, Germs and Steel (GGS) by Jared Diamond. Like the latest book of the author – read 