How did we get into this mess?
How did we get into this mess? by George Monbiot is a 2016 Business & Economics book written by TED speaker George Monbiot, paired here with the talk they gave.
The pairing
- Paired talk: "The new political story that could change everything" (2019), 4M views on TED.com
- Timing: Published 3 years before the talk.
- In the catalogue: The 3rd of 3 books by George Monbiot on Books Worth Reading (2000–2016), by publication year.
- Edition: Editorial Sexto Piso, 2016 · 348 pages
The paired TED talk
The new political story that could change everything (2019), the TED talk by George Monbiot.
From the publisher
Leading political and environmental commentator on where we have gone wrong, and what to do about it. "Here are some of the things I try to fight: undemocratic power, corruption, deception of the public, environmental destruction, injustice, inequality and the misallocation of resources, waste, denial, the libertarianism which grants freedom to the powerful at the expense of the powerless, undisclosed interests, complacency." George Monbiot is one of the most vocal, and eloquent, critics of the current consensus. In How Did We Get into this Mess?, which collects Monbiot's journalism over the last seven years, he brilliantly anatomises the state we are in: the devastation of our environment, the crisis of inequality, the corporate takeover of Nature, our obsessions with growth and profit and the decline of the political debate over what to do. While his diagnosis of the problems in front of us is clear-sighted and reasonable, he also develops solutions to challenge this politics of fear