Now that humanity acknowledges that the problems that threaten to destroy itre of its own making, Toynbee in this book argues that habits, unlikenstincts, can be changed and that faced with the inescapable choice,umanity will prefer painful changes of habit to self-destruction.;This, hetresses is what is required for the problems now confronting us can only beolved by a radical break with our deeply ingrained habits. Each of thessues facing the modern world is examined from this point of view, from theressures of population and urbanization, the challenge of increasedffluence and leisure, and religious pluralism to the question of politicalnification and a new world order.;Arnold Toynbee also wrote "Mankind andother Earth", "A Study of History" and "An Historian's Approach to Religion".
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Now that humanity acknowledges that the problems that threaten to destroy itre of its own making, Toynbee in this book argues that habits, unlikenstincts, can be changed and that faced with the inescapable choice,umanity will prefer painful changes of habit to self-destruction.;This, hetresses is what is required for the problems now confronting us can only beolved by a radical break with our deeply ingrained habits. Each of thessues facing the modern world is examined from this point of view, from theressures of population and urbanization, the challenge of increasedffluence and leisure, and religious pluralism to the question of politicalnification and a new world order.;Arnold Toynbee also wrote "Mankind andother Earth", "A Study of History" and "An Historian's Approach to Religion".