Enough is Plenty: Public and Private Values for the 21st CenturyEnough is an ancient 'master concept', which today finds renewed expression in a variety of proposals for a transition to a better world. Each one of us has an innate sense of enough; everybody can play a part in the movement of enough and at the same time improve daily well being. The book is a unique blend of ideas, practice and resources, integrating philosophy, morality, ecology, spirituality, self-help, citizenship, leadership, economics and politics. |
Contents
Enough and ecology | 15 |
The contemporary capitalist economic system | 29 |
Hollow benefits in affluent countries | 42 |
The biological risks of industrializing agriculture | 55 |
Long supply chains | 68 |
the need to reduce and regulate carbon emissions | 74 |
The practicalities of a fair system | 80 |
Complementary interventions | 87 |
reform of the Common Agricultural Policy | 123 |
Is food security really possible? | 137 |
Keystone attitudes | 143 |
Cultivating the middle ground | 149 |
Power and imagination | 157 |
OUR WORLD OUR SELVES | 163 |
Contemplating dependency | 173 |
Uncertainty and mystery | 179 |
Paying for a Citizens Income | 101 |
Who qualifies as a citizen? | 108 |
Conclusion | 114 |
Coping well in the present | 185 |
Common terms and phrases
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