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JAMIE BRITTON recommends that we all buy at least two copies of a remarkable book of poems
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JAMIE BRITTON recommends that we all buy at least two copies of a remarkable book of poems
Breaking Together
Jem Bendell, Good Works, £16.99
WHILE mainstream green narratives seem to be stuck on “time is running out,” they skip over details like “time for whom to do what, or else what.” In that light, a new book from a sociology professor is a welcome contribution to our political imagination — blazing a new trail in “post-doom” politics and activism.
The first half of Breaking Together offers powerful arguments, if you need them, that our civilisation has passed its peak.
Summarising the scholarship on food, energy, ecology, and debt, Jem Bendell shows that these systems are already undergoing a process of collapse. Many of us might wish that this crisis can be fixed by the “people in charge.” But Bendell invites us to drop such fanciful ideas.
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