Kahn H., Brown W.M., Brown W., Martel L. The next 200 years: a scenario for America and the world

New York: Morrow, 1976. — 258 p.This short book is a partial report of work in progress at Hudson Institute on the crucial issues of population growth, economic development, energy, raw materials, food and the environment, which currently are the focus of attention for governments, academic institutions, private corporations, news media and concerned citizens all over the world. While we do not ignore the short and medium terms, our focus in this book is on the long term—and we consider most of the immediate and medium-term issues that do arise as transitional phenomena. Rather than trying to solve the practical problems raised by these issues or even to predict the actual course of events, we have written a scenario for America and the world for the next 200 years which puts these issues in a new perspective. This scenario does, however, demonstrate that there are, in principle, solutions.