Chapter 6 Prepare for a fight
The second part of the book looks at how societies can respond to accelerating climate change and other environmental problems. They need to prepare for a fight because they can’t just tweak the existing economic system. It needs radical reform, urgently.
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Chapter 7 System change not climate change
For system change, two conditions must be met. The existing system needs to have lost widespread credibility and an alternative system needs to be available. That’s the lesson of the past we need to remember.
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Chapter 8 Blueprint for the future
What would an alternative system of human development actually look like? Compared to the current system it would be almost unrecognisable.
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Chapter 9 Preparing for power
As well as a blueprint for the future, societies need experts in development, climate change, human behaviour. They need people who can help shut polluting industries, who are willing to sacrifice their own interests for the long term future of humanity. These people are unlikely to be found within the current political leadership.
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Chapter 10 part 1 Obstacles on the path ahead
You didn’t create this problem and you can’t solve it alone. But there is a small group of people who are directly responsible for climate change and the world’s environmental problems. The rest of us need to stop singing the La-La song and work together to stop them destroying our future.
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