ADDRESS TO THE READER (instead of introduction) This book offers an optimistic and confident view on the future of all people on this Planet. What are the grounds for this optimistic view? Actually, there are no grounds for it whatsoever; rather it’s built on the FAITH in Mankind and the power of science. Mankind will survive and regenerate after weathering the storm of the Epoch of Major Changes. These changes have already affected people all over the globe: the rise in the World Ocean level, unstable state of the Yellowstone super volcano, uncontrolled migration of the Planet’s population, conflicts and wars, water and food supply shortage, destruction of the system of states. We can already see these and other processes going on nowadays. And it is only the beginning of a long chain of cause-effect relations. The events described are based on the processes that are most likely to face the Planet, both socially and environmentally, as indicated in materials of analytical research and published statistic Развернуть