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The various contributors, who are all part of The Economist<\/a><\/i> magazine’s “extended family”, believe that there will be too many people, too little food and a warmer planet; but there will be more jobs, food substitutes and a solution to global warming (even if that solution is finding life on other planets). The book speaks matter-of-factly about our prospects, and is punctuated with graphs and tables enabling the reader to glide through difficult topics with relative ease. 
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\nMegachange <\/i>is not exactly groundbreaking, but it is an intriguing and at times uplifting set of essays on why we shouldn’t completely fear for our children.
\n<\/p>\n

Megachange: The World in 2050
\n<\/i>Daniel Franklin and John Andrews (editors)
\nEconomist Books, 2012
\n<\/b>
\n— By Henry Krempels<\/p>\n

<\/b>https:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/<\/em>
\n<\/a>
\n<\/i>Copyright © Guardian News and Media Limited 2012<\/em><\/b> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The authors of Megachange<\/i> are often humble in the face of their own predictions – perhaps, as the preface notes, because history is littered with false prophecy. 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