Main entry:

Monbiot, George, 1963- author.

Title & Author:

How did we get into this mess? : politics, equality, nature / George Monbiot.

Publication:

London ; Brooklyn, NY : Verso, [2016]

Description:

x, 342 pages ; 22 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part one. There is such a thing as society. Falling apart -- Deviant and proud -- Work-force -- Addicted to comfort -- Dead zone -- Help addicts, but lock up the casual users of cocaine.
Part two. Lost youth. Rewild the child -- The child inside -- Amputating life close to its base -- 'Bug splats' -- Kin hell -- The sacrificial caste -- A modest proposal for tackling youth -- Pro-death.
Part three. The wild life. Everything is connected -- Civilisation is boring -- End of an era -- The population myth -- The dawning.
Part four. Feeding frenzy. Sheepwrecked -- Ripping apart the fabric of the nation -- Drowning in money -- Small is bountiful.
Part five. Energy vampires. Leave it in the ground -- Applauding themselves to death -- The grime behind the crime -- Going critical -- Power crazed.
Part six. Riches and ruins. The impossibility of growth -- Curb your malthusiasm -- Kleptoremuneration -- The self-attribution fallacy -- The lairds of learning -- The man who wants to Northern rock the planet -- The gift of death.
Part seven. Dance with the one who brung you. How the billionaires broke the system -- Plutocracy's boot boys -- How did we get into this mess? -- Going naked.
Part eight. Out of sight, out of mind. The Holocaust we will not see -- The empire strikes back -- Unremitting pain -- Bomb everyone.
Part nine. Holding us down. A global ban on leftwing politics -- Innocent until proved dead -- The paranoia squad -- Union with the devil.
Part ten. Finding our place. Someone else's story -- Highland spring -- A telling silence -- The values of everything.

Summary:

"Leading political and environmental commentator on where we have gone wrong, and what to do about it. "Here are some of the things I try to fight: undemocratic power, corruption, deception of the public, environmental destruction, injustice, inequality and the misallocation of resources, waste, denial, the libertarianism which grants freedom to the powerful at the expense of the powerless, undisclosed interests, complacency." George Monbiot is one of the most vocal, and eloquent, critics of the current consensus. In How Did We Get into this Mess?, which collects Monbiot's journalism over the last seven years, he brilliantly anatomizes the state we are in: the devastation of our environment, the crisis of inequality, the corporate takeover of Nature, our obsessions with growth and profit and the decline of the political debate over what to do. While his diagnosis of the problems in front of us is clear-sighted and reasonable, he also develops solutions to challenge this politics of fear."-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781784783624 (hardback)
1784783625 (hardback)
(E-ISBN ; US)
9781784783617
9781784783631
9781786630780
1786630788

Subject:

Social history 21st century.
World politics 21st century.
Economic history 21st century.
Corporations Political activity.
Business and politics.
Environmental degradation.
Globalization.
Histoire sociale 21e siècle.
Politique mondiale 21e siècle.
Histoire économique 21e siècle.
Sociétés Activité politique.
Affaires et politique.
Environnement Dégradation.
Mondialisation.
globalism.
POLITICAL SCIENCE Political Freedom & Security Civil Rights.
SCIENCE Environmental Science.
NATURE Ecosystems & Habitats General.
History.
Economic history.
Social history.
World politics.
Weltpolitik
Wirtschaft
Nachhaltigkeit
Gesellschaftskritik

Holdings:

Location: Library main 293678
Call No.: BIB 238794
Status: Available