We Can Do Better: A Departure Into the World of Tomorrow (Paperback or Softback)

“A profound diagnosis and wake-up call.”
―Ralph Gerstenberg, Deutschlandfunk Kultur Book Review

Political economist Maja Göpel delivers the tools we need to build the world we want to live in

Humanity is undergoing a massive process of transformation, and the way we live is about to change in a fundamental way.

In recent times, we’ve lived so hard on the earth, that the environment, the economy, politics, society, and technology are crumbling. There have always been great transformations in history, triggered by humans. Structural change is not an imposition, but an opportunity. It is time that we ― each of us individually, but also society as a whole ― allowed ourselves to think anew, to dream, and to ask two related, radical questions: Who do we want to be, and how do we want to live?

In We Can Do Better, Maja Göpel explains how we can understand such complex developments and use this knowledge to achieve a better world.

Dr Maja Göpel is a political economist and an important voice for a sustainable transformation of society, working at the intersection of the economy, politics, and society. From 2017 to 2020, she was secretary-general of the German Advisory Council on Global Change, and in 2019 was appointed honorary professor at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg. She is a member of the Club of Rome, the World Future Council, the Balaton Group, the German government’s Bioeconomy Council, and a co-founder of the Scientists for Future network.

David Shaw works as a journalist for Germany’s international broadcaster, Deutsche Welle, as well as translating from several languages, including German, Dutch, Russian, and French. He lives in Berlin.