Workers of the World Relax - Softcover

Conrad Schmidt

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0973977205 ISBN 13: 9780973977202

Publisher: WLP Publishing, 2006

Synopsis

There are approximately seven billion people on the earth today. As population continues to grow it is becoming clear that the planet is not as big as we once thought it to be; it is also becoming obvious that humans are wreaking havoc upon the environment. The big question we have been trying to solve for the past 100 years is, how do we maximize production and produce more and more stuff? The big question we now face is, what do we do with all the junk and pollution we have created?. To make matters worse, we now seem more determined than ever to work harder and produce more stuff, which creates a bizarre paradox, we are proudly breaking our backs to decrease the carrying capacity of the planet. So what is the solution? A great beginning would be to reduce the industrial workweek. We would consume less, produce less, work less, pollute less and live more. Providing that the remaining work be distributed among more people, an industrial slow-down could have the additional benefit of reducing unemployment. This is a simple concept which has not garnered much attention. This book tackles the ideological constraints to environmental sustainability and proves how a reduced workweek can help solve many of our social and environmental problems.

About this title

About the Author:

CONRAD SCHMIDT worked for eight years as a software engineer for one of the world s largest automation firms. His expertise as an engineer was in human machine interface. He quit his job to become a writer and filmmaker. He is the author of the book Efficiency Shifting and the director of the film Five Ring Circus.

Review:

.. Schmidt seems to possess Ariadne's thread. He manages to provide a comprehensive political, economic and social framework , based on sound reading of history and remarkable research. Impressive -- --Theo Haris. Car Busters Magazine

Conrad Schmidt provides the sort of culture-crashing ideas that modern society needs to reverse the headlong rush toward ecological destruction. His book offers reasonable steps to help us wake up, slow down, and learn what it means to live within the natural world. - ----Rex Weyler, Co-founder of Green Peace

Schmidt does not limit himself to the role of doomsayer, a common pitfall in much activist writing. Instead he levels constructive criticism at the myriad of problems facing our dangerously wasteful society and responds with policy alternatives that are thoughtful, well-researched and, most importantly, practical. --Martin Twigg. --BC - Book World Martin Twigg

About this edition

• Publisher: WLP Publishing
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0973977205
• ISBN 13: 9780973977202
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 160