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High Noon * High Noon - Twenty Global Problems, Twenty Years to Solve Them * Contents vii Author's Note and Warning ix Part One - It's Not Globalization, Stupid * 1 - Two Big Forces 3 2 - Stretching the Planet to the Limit: The Demographic Explosion 5 3 - Doing Everything Differently: The New World Economy and the Two Revolutions behind It 11 4 - Why the New World Economy Is So Radically Different 17 5 - The Opportunities and Stresses of the New World Economy 25 6 - A Crisis of Complexity? 37 7 - Three New Realities 41 Part Two - High Noon—For Twenty Urgent Global Issues * 8 - A Dangerous Gap 55 9 - A Bad Feeling in Your Stomach: Unsolved Global Issues 59 10 - Twenty Global Issues, Twenty Years to Solve Them 61 11 - Inherently Global Issues 65 12 - Sharing Our Planet: Issues Involving the Global Commons 69 13 - Sharing Our Humanity: Issues Requiring a Global Commitment 89 14 - Sharing Our Rule Book: Issues Needing a Global Regulatory Approach 113 Part Three - Thinking Aloud—New Approaches to Global Problem-Solving * 15 - No Pilot in the Cockpit 153 16 - Current Ways of Handling Global Issues Aren't Up to the Job 157 17 - No Chance for a World Government 165 18 - Pointers towards Solutions: Networked Governance 169 19 - Global Issues Networks 171 20 - Good Things about Global Issues Networks 181 21 - Controversial Aspects 187 22 - Stepping Back: Other Solutions Besides Global Issues Networks 193 23 - Conclusion: Imagination and a Different Type of Thinking 199 Postscript 203 Endnotes 205 Acknowledgments 227