ONE WORLD: The Health and Survival of the Human Species in the 21st Century

"We must be prepared to give the same kind of priority to securing the future of our planet as a sustainable home for present and future generations as we have always been willing to accord to military security...only time will tell whether we are on to a pathway to a more secure and sustainable future for the human community, or as a tragic lost, perhaps last, opportunity." -Secretary-General of the UN Earth Summit ONE WORLD: The Health and Survival of the Human Species in the 21st Century is a compelling collection of original essays written by some of the premier scholars and scientists of our time. The editor, Robert Lanza MD, persuaded distinguished contributors such as former President Jimmy Carter, the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Carl Sagan, Jonas Salk, Christiaan Barnard, Linus Pauling, US Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, the US Secretary of Health and Human Services, the Director-General of the WHO, the President of the AMA (among the forty outstanding spokespeople represented, including the Ministers of Health from the UK, Japan, France, Russia, and India) to join forces in a discussion of the world's major interrelated issues of health and survival as we enter the next century. Lanza passionately states: "Society, from scientist to politician to media representative to the man in the street, must displace its apathy, overcome resistance to new concepts of healing, and lay aside its religious taboos. It must arouse public concern and stimulate the political will to attack problems based on an assessment of their damaging effects on humanity and the environment, rather than on nationalistic and sectarian politics. Medicine and science have found the means to alleviate or remove much of human suffering from diseases, but their progress is often hindered by the lack of or wrong motivations of society at large. Concerted international action, ever greater research efforts and global exploration, and application of our increasing fund of knowledge in areas of medicine and public health are urgen