Author(s): Maja Gopel; David Shaw (Translator)

Current Affairs & Politics

We have never been so well off; but at the same time, we find destruction and crisis everywhere we look-and our systems are under stress. In this book, economist Maja Göpel, co-founder of the Scientists for Future initiative, says we do not solely face an environmental crisis, but also a social one. It's time to question our principles, and reevaluate our priorities. It's time to rethink our world, because if we want to keep our livelihoods, we need to find a way of living without draining our planet any further. We need a fair distribution of wealth and a way to reconcile the social with the ecological. Critical, yet full of encouragement, Maja Göpel chooses surprising and enlightening examples to illustrate how we can leave behind our familiar ways of living to achieve a better future. With that, she invites us to look at this future we are shaping every day in a new and completely different way. A compelling and persuasive look at the social transformations needed to cope with our environmental crises.