Ever get the feeling that things are falling apart? You're not alone. From bad banks to global warming it can all look hopeless, but what if everything could turn out, well, even better than before? What if the only thing holding us back is a lack of imagination and a surplus of old orthodoxies? In fascinating and iconoclastic detail—on everything from the cash in your pocket to the food on your plate and the shape of our working lives—this book describes how the relentless race for economic growth is not always one worth winning, how excessive materialism has come at a terrible cost to our environment, and how it hasn't even made us any happier in the process. The author believes passionately in the human capacity for change, and shows how the good life remains in our grasp. While global warming and financial meltdown might feel like modern day horsemen of the apocalypse, this book shows how such end of the world scenarios offer us the chance for a new beginning.

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Andrew Simms is the author of several books including Ecological Debt. He is a Fellow of the New Economics Foundation and trained at the London School of Economics. He is also one of the UK's leading campaigners who coauthored the groundbreaking Green New Deal, was one of the original organizers of the campaign to cancel poor country debt, and devised how to mark the day in the year when the world enters "ecological debt."

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