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Written by two of the most prominent members of the UK Green Party, this book is an accessible and concise introduction to the Green perspective on the major issues of today -- including the environment, climate change, globalisation, trade and finance, and international security. It's a book that will be of interest to anyone who wants a radical and environmentally-sound political alternative.

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Essential reading for anyone wanting to move beyond critiques of economic globalisation to coherent and credible alternatives...Woodin and Lucas distinguish themselves as two of the very few British politicians able and willing not only to imagine a different world, but to set out practical steps to reach it. -- Dame Anita Roddick DBE We stand at a crucial point in history. One future leads to spiraling inequality, insecurity and environmental decline - another road heads toward sustainability. Most of our elected representatives know only one way ahead - the way of corporate globalisation. So here is the exception, not more anti-globalisation or pro-globalisation, but a genuine alternative that promotes policies for people and the planet. If more politicians thought like this, we would live in a far better world. -- Tony Juniper, Executive Director, Friends of the Earth (UK) Policy makers are trying to make failed economic theory work, like farmers trying to milk a dead cow. Caroline Lucas and Mike Woodin know its time to move on and try something different. Here is proof that there are alternatives. Some things about globalisation are here to stay, like information technology and rapid cultural diffusion . But the policies that lead to greater gaps between rich and poor, promote social alienation and destroy diversity have been made by policy makers and so can be 'unmade.' This book tells us how to begin that transformation. -- Andrew Simms, Policy Director, New Economics Foundation

'Essential reading for anyone wanting to move beyond critiques of economic globalisation to coherent and credible alternatives.' --Dame Anita Roddick DBE 'Woodin and Lucas set out an eloquent and passionate argument which not only challenges the convenient assumption that economic globlisation is inevitable, but which also explodes the myth that globalisation benefits the poor.' --Vandana Shiva' A genuine alternative that promotes policies for people and the planet. If more politicians thought like this, we would live in a far better world.' --Tony Juniper, Executive Director, Friends of the Earth (UK)

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Caroline Lucas was elected as one of the UK Green Party's first MEP's in 1999. She is a member of the European Parliament's Committee for Trade, Industry, Energy and Research, Vice President of the EU's Joint Parliamentary Assembly, and an Associate of the International Forum on Globalisation. Michael Woodin is the Trade and Industry spokesperson for the Green Party and was elected as Oxford's first Green City Councillor in 1994. He lectures in Psychology at Balliol College, University of Oxford, and has written and broadcast widely.

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