TY  - BOOK
AU  - Monbiot,George
TI  - How did we get into this mess? : Politics, Equality, Nature
SN  - 9781784783624 (hardback)
AV  - HN18.3 
U1  - 301.09/051 
PY  - 2016///
CY  - London, New York NY
PB  - Verso
KW  - Social history
KW  - 21st century
KW  - World politics
KW  - Economic history
KW  - Corporations
KW  - Political activity
KW  - Business and politics
KW  - Environmental degradation
KW  - Globalization
KW  - Umweltschaden
KW  - gnd
KW  - Globalisierung
KW  - Politik
N2  - "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 anatomises 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"--
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