THE NEWEST ISSUE OF THE FUTURIST ASKS, ENERGY INDEPENDENCE BY 2020?  

            Bethesda, Maryland -- In the opinion of many foreign-policy experts, the greatest threats to world security are Iran’s nuclear program, international Jihadist terror, and radicalization among the Muslim populations in Europe and North America. What is the common thread among these various threats? All are financed by Persian Gulf petrodollars. yet, worldwide consumption of crude oil is projected to grow 40% by 2020.

            For the sake of our shared environment and international stability, the time has come for the West to formulate a coherent energy policy dedicated to downgrading oil as the dominant international commodity. In the January-February issue of THE FUTURIST, Tsvi Bisk, director of the Center for Strategic Futurist Thinking shows how it will be done.

            Commentaries by former EPA Assistant Administrator James Strock, economics professor Gary Yohe (Wesleyan University), and Deron Lovaas of the Natural Resources Defense Council.  An exclusive interview with former CIA director James Woolsey will appear on the World Future Society's Web site, www.wfs.org.

 Also in the January-February issue of THE FUTURIST... 

The 17 Great Challenges of the Twenty-First Century

            By some estimates, humanity has only a 50% chance of surviving the next hundred years.  In the twenty-first century, scientific advances will be beyond anything we’ve ever before experienced. Simultaneous to this techno-revolution, fresh water will run out in many parts of the world. Global warming will bring hurricanes far more severe than Katrina and will cause natural climate-control mechanisms to go wrong. Rising temperatures will lower crop yields in many parts of the world’s poorest countries. The immense tensions brought about by such catastrophes will occur in a time of extremism, religious belligerence, and suicidal terrorism.

            In the January-February issue of THE FUTURIST, James Martin, author of The Wired Society and founder of the James Martin Institute for Science and Civilization at Oxford University shows how to get humanity through the coming period of chaos, peril, and opportunity.

And...

SportsCast: Industry Focus on Sports Media and Marketing           

            In SportsCast: 10 Controversial Issues Confronting the Sports Industry, University of North Carolina media professor John Sweeney examines the key issues affecting the future of sports: The turbulent brand; the shattered media; the women's revolution; the engineered athlete, etc.

            Then, in The Future of Sports Media, Irving Rein, Philip Kotler, and Ben Shields explore how sports and media have co-evolved as businesses and are reaching  into unexpected areas such as restaurants, magazines, interactive video, mobile phones to maintain an everyday presence in the lives of fans. The case study of the Manchester United football team demonstrates how to follow the ESPN model.

 Plus: fractal transactions and the future of money, Latinos, Latino immigrants, and public policy, and much more.

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