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George Monbiot, Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis
Paperback, 224 pages
Verso, 2017
ASIN: B01LX5A54F
What does the good life—and the good society—look like in the twenty-first century?
A toxic ideology of extreme competition and individualism has come to dominate our world. It misrepresents human nature, destroying hope and common purpose. Only a positive vision can replace it, a new story that re-engages people in politics and lights a path to a better future.
George Monbiot shows how new findings in psychology, neuroscience and evolutionary biology cast human nature in a radically different light: as the supreme altruists and cooperators. He shows how we can build on these findings to create a new politics: a “politics of belonging.” Both democracy and economic life can be radically reorganized from the bottom up, enabling us to take back control and overthrow the forces that have thwarted our ambitions for a better society.
Podcast: “Telling a New Story with George Monbiot”
See also this critical review by Ted Trainer at Resilience.org.
