Most Interesting Books of 2006
State of the World 2006
and
2006 Vital Signs 2006-2007
“... the most straightforward and reliable environmental, economic, and social information available on the entire planet Earth.”
by the Worldwatch Institute
Fifty years ago, in a book titled The Sane Society, author and activist Erich Fromm wrote these words about the Harrison Brown work, The Challenge of Man's Future: "I know few books which present so clearly the alternative between sanity and insanity, progress and destruction for modern society, based on compelling reasoning and indisputable facts."
This same honest praise applies to two books from the organization called Worldwatch. State of The World, along with its companion volume Vital Signs, provides the most straightforward and reliable environmental, economic, and social information available on the entire planet Earth. For the past five years I have called these books "important". Now, as the effects of global warming become devastatingly tangible, as the polar ice caps diminish, as children starve and vital resources are become immanently endangered — these books are indispensable. The latest State of the World focuses on the enigmatic nations of China and India. The latest Vital Signs explains trends in Food & Agriculture, Energy & Climate, the Economy, Transportation and Communication, Health & Population, and War & Peace.
Buy these books, study these books, and then talk about them with your co-workers and family and friends.
— Michael Pastore
