Our World: Our Future

By Anil K. Sarkar

Book Overview

Excellence in science and technology, industrial revolution, overpopulation, pollution of the environment, and ethnic and religious conflicts are about to explode because man has not learned to tame... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0759669805
• ISBN13: 9780759669802
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: 1st Book Library
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

"Our World: Our Future" is a must read

"Our World: Our Future" is a must read for anyone interested in peace and survival of our race. In spite of our affluence and scientific excellence, over half of our race live in poverty and subhuman condition, but none of our scholars ever addressed this most important human problem in any of the books available in the world today. Dr. Anil K. Sarkar, a medical specialist was born in utmost poverty in East Bengal 76 years ago and could see the East and the West, poverty and affluence and the realities of the unkind world in a way never posible for anybody born in affluence and in the West. To know how our race progressed from the Stone to the Computer Age and how our religious fanatics and the selfish military industrial complex are about to destroy our world, and also to know how easy it is to bring peace and survive, this is the only complete but comprehensive book one has to read.

The Survival of Mankind

No one seems to want to address the inhuman indifference we exhibit towards poverty, disease, homelessness, and the lack of hope among us. Dr. Sarkar has courageously taken up this task, and explores the dark side of human existence in his work, Our World Our Future. Half of the inhabitants of this small planet live in abject poverty while the other half lives in affluence and wealth. If all of the human beings on this planet do not get the basics they need to survive, there will be unrest and friction. We seem more focused on destroying life on this planet as we know it, and accumulating ungodly amounts of wealth in the process.Dr. Sarkar examines this problem and warns of the impending danger to the human race if we do not correct our callous indifference to our fellow man. We must develop an attitude of caring for every one and reject the way we currently treat the poor and less fortunate. And we must do so quickly. Our World Our Future is a must read: it is an urgent call that we must listen to or perish from the face of this planet. The book is chilling and thought provoking; it defies time, geography and race. It is a sobering look at the dark side of human nature. Despite this perspective, Dr. Sarkar offers concrete solutions and hope for mankind. I share in this hope, and encourage you to read this work and do the same.

OUR WORLD: OUR FUTURE by Anil K. Sarkar

A nation cannot stand half slave and half free, Lincoln proclaimed to a nation on the brink of a national bloodbath. Can the world of today survive half enslaved by the scourge of poverty and half affluently flaunting its wealth? Comes now OUR WORLD, OUR FUTURE, a unique and fearlessly subjective history of the world by an author who rose out of the depths of low-caste impoverishment in India and Pakistan. Dr. Anil K. Sarkar became a physician as well as a self-educated polymath who has spent a lengthy lifetime in pursuit of knowledge in all disciplines. Clearly his summa is not meant to be a scholarly exercise for academics, a dispassionate display of historical erudition, but rather an outspoken and populist bias in favor of the oppressed peoples of developing and Third World countries. Such a view demands a wrenching shift in international strategies by both the United Nations and the major powers of the globe. The alternative: endless terrorism, wars, famine, and disease rooted in poverty and its spawn: overpopulation and environmental decimation that is destined one day to shut the door on a prosperous and peaceful planet. Out of an insatiable thirst for learning in all areas of human endeavors, astronomy, physics, geology, paleontology, archeology, anthropology, religion, political science, and economics, Dr. Sarkar has fashioned not just a richly factual tapestry of our planetary and human evolution but an incisive social critique of past events, especially of the last century, that have shaped our present and threaten to shatter our future. In looking back, the author has boldly laid bared the foibles, follies, hubris and horrors of the power elite of history, including the religious manipulators and mullahs no less than the political machiavels and megalomaniacs. Despair and despondency, however, are not the sum of his panoramic study of 15 billion cosmic years in the evolution of a rational animal, Homo Sapiens. Only a lover's quarrel with our imperfect past could drive such a voracious curiosity in search of a remedial wisdom to our global problems. Plus a desperate hope and dogged faith that our collective sanity and humanity can prevail over the darker dimentions of our nature. OUR WORLD, OUR FUTURE is an awesome achievement, an illuminating and inspiring labor of love painstakingly built from a life of hardship, struggle, deep thought, and a passion to communicate a prescription of salvation for an ailing world, an alternative to apocalypse, an option for a nobler, more peaceful and harmonious home for the entire human family.