Overview
The bad news is that our civilisation is collapsing. The good news is that you are already helping create a new and better one. The Ocean in a Drop follows the quest of Roz Savage, a frustrated environmentalist and ocean adventurer, to find out why her own endeavours and the environmental movement more generally have failed to achieve change at the necessary scope, scale and speed. Her journey takes her from the environment through economics and politics into patriarchy and a global culture of domination the domination of rich over poor, strong over weak, humanity over nature. She examines the tragic psychological flaws in the way we think, and the apparent inevitability of civilizational collapse, and deduces that our best hope is to transcend the current trap of runaway materialism. But how? Exploring cutting-edge theories on the nature of reality and the relationship between matter and consciousness, she peels back the veils of our shared delusions to arrive at a new narrative about what it means to be human in the twenty-first century. She paints a bold, exciting vision of a future in which people and planet thrive. AUTHOR: After eleven years as a management consultant, Roz Savage left the corporate world in search of a life of greater meaning and purpose. An environmental epiphany in Peru led her to the epic endeavour of rowing solo across the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans to raise awareness of the ecological crisis. She earned four Guinness World Records and an MBE, yet she felt she had failed, because the environmental degradation continued unabated. In the eleven years since her last ocean voyage, Roz has searched for the leverage points of change that might help move humanity onto a different trajectory, away from disaster and towards living in harmony with the natural world. This book is the culmination of that journey.
Full Product Details
Author: Dr Roz Savage, MBE
Publisher: The History Press Ltd
Imprint: The History Press Ltd
ISBN: 9780750999694
ISBN 10: 0750999691
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 24 November 2022
Audience:
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
"""A reminder that living deliberately is a choice. We don't need to cross oceans to reach new destinations, but we have to be willing to cast off."" -San Francisco Chronicle on Rowing the Atlantic ""A great armchair adventure."" --Publishers Weekly on Rowing the Atlantic"
A reminder that living deliberately is a choice. We don't need to cross oceans to reach new destinations, but we have to be willing to cast off. -San Francisco Chronicle on Rowing the Atlantic A great armchair adventure. --Publishers Weekly on Rowing the Atlantic
Author Information
After eleven years as a management consultant, Roz Savage left the corporate world in search of a life of greater meaning and purpose. An environmental epiphany in Peru led her to the epic endeavour of rowing solo across the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans to raise awareness of the ecological crisis. She earned four Guinness World Records and an MBE, yet she felt she had failed, because the environmental degradation continued unabated. In the eleven years since her last ocean voyage, Roz has searched for the leverage points of change that might help move humanity onto a different trajectory, away from disaster and towards living in harmony with the natural world. This book is the culmination of that journey.
