List of Illustrations

Foreward

1. Introduction

Part 1: YESTERDAY - Where We Were

2.       Man and Space

3.       Man and Time

4.       Further Implications of Long Time Spans:

Awareness of Evolution and the Rare Event

5.       From Early Man the Toolmaker

to Present Homo Technicus

6.       How Unique is Man?

8.       The Quest for Man’s Nature

9.       The Most Dominant Species Ever

Part 2: TODAY - Where We Are

10.     Modern Man’s Predicament

11.     The Two Cultures

12.     On the Fragmentation of Knowledge

13.     The Central Problem: The Imbalance of Growth

14.     The Limits to Growth Reviewed

15.     Population, Affluence and

the Concept of Effective Population

16.     The Potential Leaders:

Politicians, Clergy and Academics

17.     Human Versus Physical Resources

18.     Observations on the Law and the Lawyers

19.     On Optimists and Pessimists

20.     The Silent Majority

21.     On the Lack of Integrity and Competence

22.     On the Universal Conscription of the Mind

23.     Communism and Capitalism Equally Doomed

24.     On Material and Intellectual Parasites

25.     China: A Cloud or a Ray of Hope?

26.     Switzerland and North America

27.     Some Reflections on the Quality of Life

28.     Training versus Education

29.     What Makes a University:

Diploma or Bachelor?

30.     The Working Mother: A Myth

31.     The Time of Leisure: Another Myth

32.     Consumers versus Producers

33.     Rip-Off: A Syndrome of Affluence Anarchy

34.     Reflections on the Generation Gap

35.     On Four Letter Words

36.     The Most Devastating Invention

37.     Inflation: Not a Viable Economic Concept

38.     The Concept of Good and Bad

39.     Our Greatest Enemy: Our Ego

Part 3: TOMORROW - Where We Might Go

40.     Quo Vadis Homo Sapiens?

Future: An Attempt at a Definition

41.     The Concept of the Ecology Risk

42.     To Strike a Balance Between Doomsday

Pessimism and Irresponsible Optimism

43.    The 21st Century: A Geologist's Perspective

44.     The Interdisciplinary Dialogue:

The Challenge of our Times

45.     Stewardship of the Earth: How to Deal

with Environmental Challenges in a

Sensible and Responsible Manner

46.     Revolutions: Past and Future

47.     The Human Revolution

48.     The Commandments of The Human Revolution

Selected Reading Relevant to The Vanishing of a Species?

Selected Excerpts from The Vanishing of a Species?

Acknowledgements

Notes

Index