Where do we stand, as humankind? The author of this book offers this analysis: We have dug ourselves into a multitude of perilous crises, both despite and because of what we call progress. We engage in systemic humiliation – sociocide and ecocide – or the shredding of the social fabric and plundering of the planet. At the same time, there are also immense windows of opportunity waiting to be used. Unfortunately, so far, instead of recognising the depth of the crises at hand and grasping the historic opportunities to exit, it seems that most of us choose to stay myopic. Therefore, this book focusses on all of human history – on big history – because only a wide view makes the primary problems visible that spawn secondary, tertiary, and quaternary ones.
Evelin Lindner
