What's gone wrong with our world? Wars, threats of war and catastrophe; wellbeing, wealth and prosperity; forty thousand children dying every day from want in the midst of world abundance; rising unemployement where there is so much to be done; military expenditures in the West alone of a million dollars a minute while governments are unable to implement essential education and social reforms; the rich getting richer and the poor, poorer; leading economists predicting the worst crash of all timeleading to the likelihood of what Galbraith has referred to as 'total economic disaster'; the family disintegrating and divorce rampant; drink, drugs and suicide on the increase; pollution threatening our health, the rape of the earth threatening its resources, the spreading contagion of violence threatening life everywhere...
Here, André Kehoe, now living in France, someone from the inside, speaking from the experience of over twenty years as a principal administrator with the OECD in Paris, the FAO in Rome, the United Nations Development Programme in Africa and working on consultant missions elsewhere with UNESCO and the World Bank, diagnoses the problems in depth and indicates what the ordinary man and woman can do, right now, to rectify the rapidly deteriorating situation before it turns to tragic drama for our children. For there is a contrasting scenario to the disastrous one adopted by the Western Establishment, to provide the rising generation with the greatest opportunity mankind has ever known for exciting activity and an exciting future. As in the case of a doctor faced with a desperately diseased condition, however, the cure cannot be undertaken without detailed examination and diagnosis of the disease, the process to which the author here invites the reader in a radical and well-documented study combining personal experience with extensive research and scholarship. It is a book or perhaps more accurately a bombshell that is certain to stir intense controversy in political, business, religious and intelligentsia circles around the world and possibly trigger a - hopefully, peaceful - world revolution. It is also required reading for those between eighteen and thirty who are mystified by the modern world and where is headed.
"A formidable and visionary work which I hope... is widely read." Tony Benn, MP.
