Overview
Filmmaker and writer Mike Freedman speaks with a range of experts from a variety of backgrounds about what the future has in store for humanity. Post-growth economics, sustainability, water privatisation, rejuvenation biotechnology, cyber-security and the war on drugs are some of the topics covered, featuring new insights from diverse thinkers including Richard Heinberg, Derrick Jensen, Professor Sir Michael Marmot, Dr David Nutt and Professor Seyyed Hossein Nasr. With passion, foresight and a willingness to look difficult facts in the face, these conversations paint an honest and often troubling picture of the future that we are building. What kind of world do we want to live in over the coming decades? What society and environment do we want to leave behind for our children? ""For anyone who wants an accessible but no-holds-barred insight into emerging paradigms of participatory, prosperous and peaceful societies that nurture rather than degrade their environment, this is an essential resource."" - Dr Nafeez Ahmed
Full Product Details
Author: Mike Freedman ,
David Cromwell ,
MR David Edwards (The University of Oxford UK)
Publisher: Mordant Press
Imprint: Mordant Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.70cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.426kg
ISBN: 9780955472749
ISBN 10: 0955472741
Pages: 290
Publication Date: 26 June 2017
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
"""Mike Freedman has done us all a huge favour in bringing together this powerful collection of eye- opening conversations. Visionaries, scholars and activists from a wide spectrum of backgrounds weigh in with their views on how to 'think, plan and do' in preparation for our inevitable post- carbon future. For anyone who wants an accessible but no-holds-barred insight into emerging paradigms of participatory, prosperous and peaceful societies that nurture rather than degrade their environment, this is an essential resource."" Dr. Nafeez Ahmed, investigative journalist, author and international security scholar"
Mike Freedman has done us all a huge favour in bringing together this powerful collection of eye- opening conversations. Visionaries, scholars and activists from a wide spectrum of backgrounds weigh in with their views on how to 'think, plan and do' in preparation for our inevitable post- carbon future. For anyone who wants an accessible but no-holds-barred insight into emerging paradigms of participatory, prosperous and peaceful societies that nurture rather than degrade their environment, this is an essential resource. Dr. Nafeez Ahmed, investigative journalist, author and international security scholar
Author Information
Mike Freedman is the founder and director of Day 600, a creative media company and consultancy. He produced and directed the award-winning feature documentary ""Critical Mass"", and has also produced two other feature documentaries, ""Blessed are the Strangers"" and ""The Last Guardians"". His non-fiction writing has been published by Stakeholder Forum's Outreach Magazine, The Daly News, EcoHustler, Energy Bulletin and Transition Voice. ""The Revolution Will Be Improvised"" is his first non-fiction book. David Cromwell is one of the editors of Media Lens, an organisation that studies and draws attention to ""how news and commentary are 'filtered' by the media's profit-orientation, by its dependence on advertisers, parent companies, wealthy owners and official news sources."" In 2007, Media Lens was awarded the Gandhi Foundation International Peace Prize. David Edwards is one of the editors of Media Lens, an organisation that studies and draws attention to ""how news and commentary are 'filtered' by the media's profit-orientation, by its dependence on advertisers, parent companies, wealthy owners and official news sources."" In 2007, Media Lens was awarded the Gandhi Foundation International Peace Prize.
