A timely polemic on greed: how it drove our ancesters out of their caves but is now sending us careening towards our destruction.
Selfishness and greed have been our tools of survival from the very beginning, ever since our earliest forebearers climbed down from the trees and set off across the savannah in search of God. Evolution has given us an instinct that is as crucial to our survival as fear or sex but, in the third millennium, greed has become out of control:
Spanning across a whole range of issues including obesity, American evangelism, the Iraq war and genetically modified food, Greed is not just a lament for lost innocence or an assault on the fat cats -- it's also a celebration of all that greed has prompted us to achieve and what should be possible for us in the future.
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RICHARD GIRLING is a senior feature writer for the Sunday Times Magazine. In 2002 he was named Specialist Writer of the Year at the UK Press Awards and has been shortlisted for this award in 2005 and 2006. In 2008 he was nominated Journalist of the Year at the Press Gazette Environmental Press Awards. He has been a consultant to the former Department of the Environment and the Department of Culture, Media and Sport and author of campaigns for the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE).
"In the course of his wide-ranging and brilliantly written polemic... Girling demonstrates just why we need to keep the monster firmly on the leash."
--Sunday Times
"Richard Girling's Greed is a book to curl up with... also curling your lip and maybe your fists as well. Beware though, he has one or two surprises in store."
--Classic FM
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