Rescuing Humanity ​examines the possible roots of most planetary crises and reveals how we might instead create a livable and sustainable future.

Willem H. Vanderburg has taught preventive engineering, sociology, and environmental studies at the Centre for Technology and Social Development at the University of Toronto.

"We must change the way we do things, particularly how and what we teach the technologists in our society. Human beings must not be a side-effect of what contemporary engineers call ‘progress.’ If we treat each other like objects, we will kill life on the planet. Vanderburg’s incisive, passionate book shows us how to avoid this abyss, how to reset our minds, take back our agency about what we wish to do next. This is a guide about how to stop being a piece of data, and start being a human: it's a guide to surviving and flourishing in this new century."

Stuart Dreyfus, Professor Emeritus of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, University of California, Berkeley:

"Rescuing Humanity is a timely and important work. Any scholar or student interested in the perils and promises of contemporary technology will find this book a thought-provoking resource. Vanderburg shows that our reliance on a ‘secular myth’ of contemporary technology, along with its narrow and mathematical interpretation of economics, hobbles us from rising to the occasion of the environmental disasters that are upon our doorstep."