Out of the Wreckage

What does the good life - and the good society - look like in the twenty-first century?

Informationen zum Autor George Monbiot writes a weekly column for the Guardian and is the author of a number of books, including Heat, The Age of Consent, Captive State, Feral and How Did We Get Into This Mess? . He recently helped to found Rewilding Britain, which seeks to redefine people's relationship to the living world. Klappentext Advances in psychology, neuroscience and evolutionary biology are brought together to indicate that humans are fundamentally altruistic and co-operative, and that the failures of capitalism may relate to its poor fit with the kinder nature of humans, in this bid for a gentler and more successful politics from "Guardian" columnist and author George Monbiot.

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George Monbiot

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Advances in psychology, neuroscience and evolutionary biology are brought together to indicate that humans are fundamentally altruistic and co-operative, and that the failures of capitalism may relate to its poor fit with the kinder nature of humans, in this bid for a gentler and more successful politics from "Guardian" columnist and author George Monbiot.

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What does the good life - and the good society - look like in the twenty-first century?