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Why can't we solve our problems anymore? Why do threats like the Gulf engine oil spill, worldwide recession, terrorism, and global warming instantly seem unstoppable? Are there limitations to the kinds of problems humans can solve? Rebecca Costa confronts - and offers a solution to - these questions in her highly anticipated and game-changing e book, The Watchman's Rattle. She pulls headlines from today's news to demonstrate how accelerating intricacy quickly outpaces that rate of which the human brain can develop new features. With compelling research predicated on research in the surge and street to redemption of the Mayan, Khmer, and Roman empires, Costa shows how the tendency to find a quick solution brings about a frightening long-term outcome: society's potential to resolve its most challenging, intractable problems becomes gridlocked, progress slows, and collapse ensues. A provocative new voice in the traditions of thought market leaders Thomas Friedman, Jared Diamond, and Malcolm Gladwell, Costa unveils how we can reverse the downward spiral. Part history, part social technology, part biology, The Watchman's Rattle will provoke, employ, and incite change.
