George Monbiot

Svet ovláda toxická ideológia extrémnej rivality a individualizmu. Zahmlieva skutočnú ľudskú povahu a ničí nádej a spoločný cieľ. Nahradiť ju môže len pozitívna vízia - nový príbeh, ktorý znovu zaangažuje ľudí do politiky a osvetlí cestu k lepšiemu svetu. Britský politický a environmentálny aktivista George Monbiot popisuje, ako nové poznatky v psychológii, neurovede a evolučnej biológii umožňujú vidieť ľudí a ich povahu v úplne inom svetle: ako výnimočných altruistov, ktorí navzájom spolupracujú. Ukazuje, ako na týchto zisteniach môžeme stavať a vytvoriť novú politiku: politiku spolupatričnosti. Zásadné preorganizovanie demokracie a ekonomiky zdola nám podľa neho umožní opäť získať kontrolu a zvrhnúť sily, ktoré maria naše snahy o lepšiu spoločnosť. Naliehavá a zanietená kniha prináša nádej a jasnosť potrebné pre zmenu sveta.

Svet ovláda toxická ideológia extrémnej rivality a individualizmu. Zahmlieva skutočnú ľudskú povahu a ničí nádej a spoločný cieľ. Nahradiť ju môže len pozitívna vízia – nový príbeh, ktorý znovu zaangažuje ľudí do politiky a osvetlí cestu k lepšiemu svetu. Britský politický a environmentálny aktivista George Monbiot popisuje, ako nové poznatky v psychológii, neurovede a evolučnej biológii umožňujú vidieť ľudí a ich povahu v úplne inom svetle: ako výnimočných altruistov, ktorí navzájom spolupracujú. Ukazuje, ako na týchto zisteniach môžeme stavať a vytvoriť novú politiku: politiku spolupatričnosti. Zásadné preorganizovanie demokracie a ekonomiky zdola nám podľa neho umožní opäť získať kontrolu a zvrhnúť sily, ktoré maria naše snahy o lepšiu spoločnosť. Naliehavá a zanietená kniha prináša nádej a jasnosť potrebné pre zmenu sveta.

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement. In the galvanising speeches and essays brought together in This Can't Be Happening, George Monbiot calls on humanity to stop averting its gaze from the destruction of the living planet, and wake up to the greatest predicament we have ever faced. Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As life on Earth has become irrevocably altered by humans, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend the planet, and affirm our place at the heart of its restoration. Their words have endured through the decades, becoming the classics of a movement. Together, these books show the richness of environmental thought, and point the way to a fairer, saner, greener world.

What does the good life - and the good society - look like in the twenty-first century? Today, our lives are dominated by an ideology of extreme competition and individualism. It misrepresents human nature, destroying hope and common purpose. But we cannot replace it without a positive vision, one that reengages people in politics and lights a path to a better world. Urgent and passionate, George Monbiot shows how new findings in psychology, neuroscience and evolutionary biology cast humans in a radically different light: as the supreme altruists and cooperators. He shows how both democracy and economic life can be radically reorganised from the bottom up, enabling us to take back control and overthrow the forces that have thwarted our ambitions for a better society. Out of the Wreckage explains just how communities can be rebuilt with the help of a new "politics of belonging".

Where have we gone wrong, and what can we do about it? George Monbiot is one of the most vocal, and eloquent, critics of the current consensus. How Did We Get into this Mess?, based on his powerful journalism, assesses the state we are now in: the devastation of the natural world, 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 the politics of fear. How do we stand up to the powerful when they seem to have all the weapons? What can we do to prepare our children for an uncertain future? Controversial, clear but always rigorously argued, How Did We Get into this Mess? makes a persuasive case for change in our everyday lives, our politics and economics, the ways we treat each other and the natural world.