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In this manuscript, Dr. Sachs argues that we need a new economic paradigm—global, inclusive, cooperative, environmentally aware, science based—to face the realities of a crowded planet. The alternative is a worldwide economic collapse. He describes how prosperity will have to be sustained through more cooperative processes, relying as much on public policy as on market forces to spread technology, address the needs of the poor and to husband threatened resources of water, air, energy, land and biodiversity. The "soft issues" of the environment, public health and population will become the hard issues of geopolitics.

In High Noon, the author challenges readers to take a new approach to the twenty most important and urgent global problems of the twenty-first century. He identifies a common thread: we do not have an effective way of dealing with the problems that our increasingly crowded, interconnected world creates. The book proposes new vehicles for global problem-solving that are startling and persuasive.

Drawing on interviews and a questionnaire survey of more than 3000 leaders, the authors of this book identify five fundamental practices of exemplary leadership.