Saying goes that ‘hope for the best and prepare for the worst’. Carl Jung, one of the fathers of modern psychology remarked that "people cannot stand too much reality. And one such reality is that end has come for many civilizations over the course of human history and the prophets of doom haven't all been wrong so far. In fact, it's safe to say that more civilizations have collapsed than have persisted to the present day. If we examine the reasons for their collapse, we find that each one collapsed due to one or two factors like neglect of soil, moral degradation, leadership crisis etc. But in our present civilization, all the factors that brought down all the civilizations in last five thousand years are operational with many more additional ones. How much more cautious we should be and how much more planning and preparations we should be undertaking. Purpose of this work is not to create an undue scare but caution us to not take things for granted. The whole universe works under finely balanced laws and making everything topsy-turvy will not work to our advantage. Our best interest lies in following the universal scheme of things and in not defying the subtle laws of creation due to foolish arrogance. Ours may as well add to that record of vanished civilizations, the primary difference being that it's global in scope and threatens the stability of the entire community of life. Civilizations have always been local and this is the first time in history that entire humanity shares a common fate. Keeping all our eggs in one basket is not a wise policy. One day we might have to pay dearly for our quest for globalization. Directions we take now would decide our fate, for better or for worse. On many fronts, the crumbling of this colossal industrial setup is becoming apparent. Material world is a calamitous place but all the previous calamities were local in nature. We have to be prepared for disasters on global scale, thanks to interdependence and interconnectivity. Earlier we suffered in isolation and now we go down, hand in hand, all together. This book is an awakening call, a call to act before time runs out, before its too late. A stitch in time saves nine. Its now or never. We stand at the cross roads and time to act is now. We have to spread the awareness and make masses conscious of the problem coming head on in our direction. Tony Blair, the former British Prime Minister, while speaking on energy and environment in October 2006, rightly put it, “We have a window of only 10 to 15 years to take the steps we need to avoid crossing catastrophic tipping points.