Before it is too late : a dialogue /: a dialogue. (2009)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Aurelio Peccei and Daisaku Ikeda ; edited by Richard L. Gage.
• Other Names: Peccei, Aurelio; Ikeda, Daisaku; Gage, Richard L
• Contents: Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Preface, by Daisaku Ikeda & Aurelio Peccei; Preface, by Daisaku Ikeda; PART I: Man and Nature; VIEWS OF AURELIO PECCEI; Complexity of the Problematique; Collision Course with Nature; Inadequacy of Material Revolutions; A Cultural, Not a Biological, Crisis; Man: From Weakness to Total Control; The Time Scale; DIALOGUE; Limitations Unrelaxed; First Things First; New View of Our Place in the World; Desiccation and Deforestation; Food First, Industrialization Later; Procreation within Limitations; Halting the Hecatomb; Global Deforestation. More AusterityEnergy Projects and Perils; PART II: Man and Man; VIEWS OF DAISAKU IKEDA; Ruler and Ruled; The Nation State and Peace; War and History; Religion and World View; Love and Compassion; DIALOGUE; Spiritual Values; Religion: Is Ecumenism Possible?; Tolerance for the Joy of It; More Communications, Less Communion; Outmoded National States; Peace, a State of the Spirit; Democracy: Yes, No or Maybe; Helping Others Have and Use Liberty; Individual Life, Greater Life; PART III: The Human Revolution; VIEWS OF DAISAKU IKEDA; The Most Important Single Factor; Education, the Second Factor. Stages of ConsciousnessVIEWS OF AURELIO PECCEI; Wrong Course; The Quintessential Question; Grass-roots Movements; Towards Chosen Ends; Developing Unused Capacities; Global Span, Long View; DIALOGUE; Inside, Not Outside; Not a Goal, but a New Course; No Decelerating Now; Education and Learning; More Than Just Doing Things; Obligations First, Rights Later; Their Way; Guide, Not Master; The Varying Revolution; Ideals and Objectives; CONCLUSION; ENDNOTES.
• Publisher Details: London : I.B. Tauris
• Publication Date: 2009
• Extent: 1 online resource (xii, 155 pages)
• Subjects: 909.82; Civilization, Modern -- 1950-; Nature -- Effect of human beings on; Conduct of life; Values; HISTORY -- World; Civilization, Modern; Conduct of life; Nature -- Effect of human beings on; Values; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 0857731904; 9780857731906
• Related ISBNs: 9781845118884; 184511888X
• Notes: Note: Print version record.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.