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In this new book Philipp Blom scrutinizes the social situation, and what he observes is not very promising: we are facing the abyss on several fronts, of which perhaps the most alarming and pressing is related to climate change. To find out how to proceed, Blom analyzes how different societies reacted to the so-called "Little Ice Age" of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and his conclusion is that not all of them knew or could adapt equally well to climate change. We also have other fronts open: the consumer society generates growing inequality, the middle classes tend to be diluted, robots and artificial intelligence make many jobs expendable. And in the political sphere, the supporters of an unrestricted capitalism who seek to defend their privileges gain positions, and authoritarian populisms emerge, while true democracy is cornered...