达雷尔·布里克（Darrell Bricker） 益普索社会研究与企业声誉公司（Ipsos Public Affairs）CEO，该公司是一家全球顶级的市场调研与营销分析公司，是全球最大的调研公司之一，他是公司声誉、社会调研以及政治选举预测领域的专家。布里克早年毕业于卡尔顿大学，获得政治学博士学位，并在同校的社会科学与人文学院担任博士研究员。在加拿大前总理布赖恩·穆罗尼任职期间，曾作为公众意见研究总监而服务于加拿大总理办公室。在结束了总理办公室的服务后，他加入了加拿大安格斯·里德研究所（Angus Reid Group），这家集团后来被益普索公司收购。 2010年，因为在商业调研领域的卓越贡献，布里克被加拿大国防部任命为女王约克游骑兵（Queen’s York Rangers）的名誉上校。 约翰·伊比特森（John Ibbitson） 加拿大《环球邮...(展开全部)

ABOUT EMPTY PLANET An award-winning journalist and leading international social researcher make the provocative argument that the global population will soon decline—and that immigration will be the key to prospering in this new social, political, and economic landscape For half a century, statisticians, pundits, and politicians have warned that a burgeoning population will so...(展开全部)

Current accounts of China’s global rise emphasize economics and politics, largely neglecting the cultivation of China’s people. Susan Greenhalgh, one of the foremost authorities on China’s one-child policy, places the governance of population squarely at the heart of China’s ascent. Focusing on the decade since 2000, and especially 2004–09, she argues that the vital politics of...(展开全部)

Current accounts of China’s global rise emphasize economics and politics, largely neglecting the cultivation of China’s people. Susan Greenhalgh, one of the foremost authorities on China’s one-child policy, places the governance of population squarely at the heart of China’s ascent. Focusing on the decade since 2000, and especially 2004–09, she argues that the vital politics of...(展开全部)

With food scarcity driven by falling water tables, eroding soils and rising temperatures, control of arable land and water resources is moving to centre stage in the global struggle for food security. "In this era of tightening world food supplies, the ability to grow food is fast becoming a new form of geopolitical leverage. Food is the new oil.", Lester R. Brown writes. Here,...(展开全部)

With food scarcity driven by falling water tables, eroding soils, and rising temperatures, control of arable land and water resources is moving to center stage in the global struggle for food security. In this era of tightening world food supplies, the ability to grow food is fast becoming a new form of geopolitical leverage. Food is the new oil, Lester R. Brown writes. What wi...(展开全部)

With food scarcity driven by falling water tables, eroding soils and rising temperatures, control of arable land and water resources is moving to centre stage in the global struggle for food security. "In this era of tightening world food supplies, the ability to grow food is fast becoming a new form of geopolitical leverage. Food is the new oil.", Lester R. Brown writes. Here,...(展开全部)

With food scarcity driven by falling water tables, eroding soils, and rising temperatures, control of arable land and water resources is moving to center stage in the global struggle for food security. In this era of tightening world food supplies, the ability to grow food is fast becoming a new form of geopolitical leverage. Food is the new oil, Lester R. Brown writes. What wi...(展开全部)

If you had a 10 percent chance of having a fatal car accident, you'd take necessary precautions. If your finances had a 10 percent chance of suffering a severe loss, you'd reevaluate your assets. So if we know the world is warming and there's a 10 percent chance this might eventually lead to a catastrophe beyond anything we could imagine, why aren't we doing more about climate ...(展开全部)

Since its first publication more than eighty years ago, The Decline of the West has ranked as one of the most widely read and talked about books of our time. A sweeping account of Western culture by a historian of legendary intellect, it is an astonishingly informed, forcefully eloquent, thrillingly controversial work that advances a world view based on the cyclical rise and ...(展开全部)