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4 pages in length. The extent to which social sciences help people address the daily challenges of life, as well as prepare for future burdens that might not yet be known, is both grand and far-reaching. Understanding one's past in order to live in the present and plan for the future is an integral component to such literary works as Paul Kennedy's Preparing for the Twenty-First Century, Joseph S. Nye, Jr's The Paradox of American Power: Why the World's Only Superpower Can't Go It Alone and Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. No additional sources cited.
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ones past in order to live in the present and plan for the future is an integral component to such literary works as Paul Kennedys Preparing for the Twenty-First Century,
Joseph S. Nye, Jrs The Paradox of American Power: Why the Worlds Only Superpower Cant Go It Alone and Jared Diamonds Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies.
Kennedys (1994) book helps people first realize and then deal with such impacting issues as population explosion, environmental degradation and the privileges/disadvantages of social status. Tackling the worlds most
difficult problems is what the author seeks to accomplish, an objective he wholly achieves with his candor about the manner by which mankind has basically created he currently addresses: overpopulation
and greed. For example, Kennedy (1994) points out how Third World countries are suffering tremendous environmental degradation because of countries like China, whose explosive population has caused its consumption to
stretch far beyond the boundaries of environmental safety. Blame for the change in the earths climate can be placed squarely upon the shoulder of human pursuit and the use
of fossil fuels. In spite of how China has attempted to address its number of people, there is no denying the fact that this huge nation requires a significant
amount of energy just to maintain daily operation. As a result of Chinas overwhelming need for energy, it has been fingered as one of the primary components of global
warming. "The activities of this sheer mass of people will affect global foodstuff demand, energy use, and the environment" (Kennedy, 1994, p. 163). Nye (2002) echoes Kennedys (1994) perspective
by saying that Americas unilateralism, arrogance and parochialism has caused considerable amount of harm to both its own people and those of the international community. One might readily point
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