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What does the good life - and the good society - look like in the 21st century?
We live in an age where progressive politics are in decline, unable to respond to the resurgence of the radical and fascist right, the alienation and exclusion of great sections of the population and the rapidly gathering environmental crisis. The two great pillars of post war politics - Keynesian economics and neoliberalism - have failed. What are the principles that should underpin a new understanding of our urgent times?
George Monbiot is the leading environmental and political commentator, and in Out of the Wreckage he outlines the possible roadmap towards a new politics. This book is a bold and rallying cry for a new vision of what a good society can be. We must put the needs of the environment at the forefront of our thinking, altering the way we see ourselves and our place on the planet. Policy should be based on deeply held values rather than expediency: fairness, equality, justice. We must build networks of mutual aid and recognition. The powers of the large corporations need to be dismantled.
