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The Age of Consent George Monbiot

The Age of Consent By George Monbiot

The Age of Consent by George Monbiot


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Summary

In this text, George Monbiot sets out to offer a set of proposals - political, democratic, economic and environmental - that might effect the cultural change that many in the West (not to mention those on the outside of the West looking in) now want but scarcely know how to make happen.

The Age of Consent Summary

The Age of Consent by George Monbiot

If Naomi Klein's "No Logo" told us what was wrong, George Monbiot promises to show us how to put it right. "Our task," he says, "is not to overthrow globalisation, but to capture it, and to use it as a vehicle for humanity's first global democratic revolution." All over our planet, the rich get richer while the poor are overtaken by debt and disaster. The world is run not by its people but by a handful of unelected or underelected executives who make the decisions on which everyone else depends: concerning war, peace, debt, development and the balance of trade. Without democracy at the global level, the rest of us are left with no means of influencing these men but to shout abuse and hurl ourselves at the lines of police defending their gatherings and decisions. Does it have to be this way? George Monbiot knows not only that things ought to change, but also that they can change. Drawing on decades of thinking about how the world is organized and administered politically, fiscally and commercially, Monbiot has developed an interlocking set of proposals all his own, which attempts nothing less than a revolution in the way the world is run. If these proposals become popular, never again will people be able to ask of the critics of the existing world order, "we know what they don't want, but what do they want?"

The Age of Consent Reviews

praise for Captive State: 'This book, politically speaking, is essential... Did I say essential? I meant compulsory.' Nick Lezard, Guardian 'After reading Captive State, I will never be able to take the government seriously again.' Thom Yorke of Radiohead 'Monbiot gives the Green movement a glamour it has never previously enjoyed... the originality of his thought makes him uniquely influential.' The Times 'Few get to the heart of the matter like Monbiot, and very few write a compelling enough prose to make you want to shout angry slogans about the injustices of corporate greed.' Management Today 'It's impossible not to take Monbiot's arguments seriously. He raises fundamental questions about the way democracy actually works in this country.' Mail on Sunday

About George Monbiot

George Monbiot, 39, the son of a former President of the Conservative Party, has been persona non grata in seven countries, had a life sentence in absentia given to him by an Indonesian court, has been shot at, beaten up by military police, shipwrecked and stung into a coma during seven years of investigative journeys across Africa, Asia and the Americas. He was even pronounced clinically dead of cerebral malaria in Kenya, only to rise again, return to Britain's comparative safety, and turn himself into the country's most articulate, most enterprising and most effective non-conformist political commentator.

Additional information

GOR001156247
9780007150427
0007150423
The Age of Consent by George Monbiot
Used - Very Good
Hardback
HarperCollins Publishers
2003-06-16
288
N/A
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