The Great Disruption Critical Analysis

In the book The Great Disruption, Paul Gilding the author, talks about the unity of the world to stop or prolong the course of the inevitable “crisis”. The crisis to him is the big event that will wipe out all of humanity or most of it, leaving around one billion people. This is caused by global warming and by humans not treating the world right. As we don’t treat the world right, you “…cut down more trees than you grow, you run out of trees. If you put additional nitrogen into a water system, you change the type and quantity of life the water a support. If you do all these and many more things at once, you can change the way the whole system of planet Earth behaves, with social, economic, and life support impacts” (Gilding 2). The people of

I love his optimism about how the world will come together and be great but, this does not seem logical. “It is the crisis itself that will push humanity to its next stage of development and allow us to realize our evolutionary potential” (Gilding 2). With how the world is now and how we treat other countries, it does not seem like a plausible option. All we do is fight with each other and are selfish and greedy. I do not believe after the crisis we will change everything about us and become perfect like Gilding believes. I also disagree with the fact that we will push to our evolutionary potential. I feel as if we are nowhere close to the evolutionary top and will not reach it for a while. The only way we will reach it is if we become one and have an almost perfect world. This will be when we do things efficiently and have time to be humans and socialize and live life, instead of working and planning. If I am right and the world does not unite, how will we get through the Great Disruption? I feel realistically the people that survive the crisis will separate and form small communities. These communities will trade and take the things they need from other countries. The idea is kind of like a post-apocalyptic

The would see us living like kings and pharaohs, with every convenience dealt with, every basic human need met, and our arguments on what needs to improve going to ever-greater refinements to all of this” (Gilding 4). As we live today the “rich” billion of the world live frivolously and don’t help the other six billion around the world, and we try to make our lives better, but not others. If we help the other, in turn will make ours better in the long run. Our ancestors who worked hard for what they got look upon us with dismay and appall. They would be disappointed and would have want us to help others, by changing their