Five Horsemen of the Modern World Climate Food Water Disease and Obesity Daniel Callahan

I Mapping an Irregular Terrain

1. Our Overheating, Fraying Planet

2. Feeding a Growing Population: How, and with What Kind of Food?

3. Water: Not Everywhere and Not Always Fit to Drink

4. Chronic Illness: Rich or Poor, Few Escape

5. Obesity: The Scourge of Bad Diets and Sedentary Habits

II Examining the Pathways Through the Thickets

6. Always More People and Ever More Elderly: Caring and Paying

7. The Technology Fix: A Way Out?

8. A Volatile Mix: Public Policy, the Media, and Public Opinion

9. Law and Governance: Managing Our Public Planet and Our Private Bodies

III Toward the Future: Progress, Hope, and Fear

10. Progress and Its Errant Children: More Is Never Enough

11. The Necessary Coalition: Social Movements, Legislatures, and Business