History for Tomorrow: inspiration from the past for the future of humanity

Roman Krznaric has written this book about challenges faced by society today and explains how society dealt with challenges in the past. His Book, History for Tomorrow, is divided into 10 challenges - Breaking the Fossil Fuel Addiction, Nurturing Tolerance, Kicking the Consumer Habit, Taming Social Media, Securing Water for All, Reviving Faith in Democracy, Managing the Genetic Revolution, Bridging the Inequality Gap, Keeping the machines under Control and Averting Civilisational Breakdown.

Roman Krznaric is a social philosopher. In each of the ten chapters he presents a current or future problem before recounting how challenges in the past were faced and how techniques used might be useful when considering how members of society might work together to deal with challenges today. The chapters where he describes groups working together to make decisions instead of the reliance on the hierarchical government occurring in most societies today are worth considering - though getting agreement on such changes is unlikely. Time is running out due to society's over use of fossil fuels and often blatant disregard of the environment.

As the author writes - History is not simply a means of understanding the past but a way of reimagining our relationship with the future and Humanity needs to look backwards in order to move forwards.

At the end of the book are extensive endnotes, bibliography plus an index.