Aktion	Zweigstelle	Standorte	Status	Frist	Vorbestellungen
Vorbestellen	Zweigstelle: 07., Urban-Loritz-Pl. 2a	Standorte: GS.BU Monb / College 3a - Englisch / Regal 3a-2	Status: Verfügbar	Frist:	Vorbestellungen: 0

VERLAGSTEXT: / / Leading political and environmental commentator on where we have gone wrong, and what to do about it / / ¿Without countervailing voices, naming and challenging power, political freedom withers and dies. Without countervailing voices, a better world can never materialise. Without countervailing voices, wells will still be dug and bridges will still be built, but only for the few. Food will still be grown, but it will not reach the mouths of the poor. New medicines will be developed, but they will be inaccessible to many of those in need.¿ / / George Monbiot is one of the most vocal, and eloquent, critics of the current consensus. How Did We Get into this Mess?, based on his powerful journalism, assesses the state we are now in: the devastation of the natural world, the crisis of inequality, the corporate takeover of nature, our obsessions with growth and profit and the decline of the political debate over what to do. / / While his diagnosis of the problems in front of us is clear-sighted and reasonable, he also develops solutions to challenge the politics of fear. How do we stand up to the powerful when they seem to have all the weapons? What can we do to prepare our children for an uncertain future? Controversial, clear but always rigorously argued, How Did We Get into this Mess? makes a persuasive case for change in our everyday lives, our politics and economics, the ways we treat each other and the natural world. / / / AUS DEM INHALT: / / / Introduction 1 / / Part 1: There Is Such a Thing as Society / / 1. Falling Apart 9 / 2. Deviant and Proud 14 / 3. Work-Force 19 / 4. Addicted to Comfort 23 / 5. Dead Zone 27 / 6. Help Addicts, but Lock Up the / Casual Users of Cocaine 32 / / Part 2: Lost Youth / / 7. Rewild the Child 39 / 8. The Child Inside 43 / 9. Amputating Life Close to Its Base 48 / 10. `Bug Splats¿ 53 / / / viii HOW DID WE GET INTO THIS MESS? / 11. Kin Hell 58 / 12. The Sacrificial Caste 62 / 13. A Modest Proposal for Tackling Youth 67 / 14. Pro-Death 72 / / Part 3: The Wild Life / / 15. Everything Is Connected 79 / 16. Civilisation Is Boring 88 / 17. End of an Era 99 / 18. The Population Myth 103 / 19. The Dawning 108 / / Part 4: Feeding Frenzy / 20. Sheepwrecked 119 / 21. Ripping Apart the Fabric of the Nation 123 / 22. Drowning in Money 130 / 23. Small Is Bountiful 139 / / Part 5: Energy Vampires / 24. Leave It in the Ground 147 / 25. Applauding Themselves to Death 152 / 26. The Grime behind the Crime 160 / 27. Going Critical 164 / 28. Power Crazed 169 / / Part 6: Riches and Ruins / / 29. The Impossibility of Growth 175 / 30. Curb Your Malthusiasm 179 / / / 31. Kleptoremuneration 184 / 32. The Self-Attribution Fallacy 188 / 33. The Lairds of Learning 193 / 34. The Man Who Wants to Northern Rock the Planet 198 / 35. The Gift of Death 203 / / Part 7: Dance with the One Who Brung You / / 36. How the Billionaires Broke the System 209 / 37. Plutocracy¿s Boot Boys 213 / 38. How Did We Get Into This Mess? 217 / 39. Going Naked 222 / / Part 8: Out of Sight, Out of Mind / 40. The Holocaust We Will Not See 227 / 41. The Empire Strikes Back 232 / 42. Unremitting Pain 236 / 43. Bomb Everyone 241 / / Part 9: Holding Us Down / 44. A Global Ban on Leftwing Politics 249 / 45. Innocent until Proved Dead 254 / 46. The Paranoia Squad 258 / 47. Union with the Devil 263 / / Part 10: Finding Our Place / 48. Someone Else¿s Story 271 / 49. Highland Spring 275 / / / X HOW DID WE GET INTO THIS MESS? / 50. A Telling Silence 280 / 51. The Values of Everything 285 / Acknowledgements 291 / Notes 293 / Index 333 /