Publisher's Description: This book is about the global environmental and economic crisis. It challenges the whole global economic system and its underlying beliefs, assumptions and values. We need a complete system transformation, a paradigm shift. This requires holistic and whole system thinking. It is a thoroughly hopeful book. The focus is on the possibility of a better world, a more fulfilling way of life, rather than what’s wrong or what we have to give up.
Could this book be the best one on the global environmental and economic crisis? The central argument is that we, ordinary people, 6.7 billion of us, need to use our people power to bring about a sustainable, fairer and non-violent world. This means putting our governments under constant pressure to do more and represent citizens’ interests and not those of big business. There are many books about the global crisis. But few, aimed at empowering ordinary people, take a holistic approach. It is for those many people who are concerned, open minded and ready to act.
Editor's Notes: A very timely book considering the "occupy" movement sweeping the world where people are trying to take back the world. It reminds me of the Vietnam protests in the 1960's.
This is not light reading. Some of what is in this book is deeply disturbing, yet it needs to be known. Maybe it is time that we, like the ants in the movie A Bug's Life, discover that there is power in numbers, that we can overcome the evil grasshoppers if we band together in common cause.
Paperback: 409 pages
Publisher: O Books, John Hunt (October 16, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1846945143
ISBN-13: 978-1846945144
Available from O-Books/Change Makers Books, plus most retail and online booksellers.