We can gain a sense of transformational possibility by remembering that we are profoundly social beings, that human beings gain a sense of meaning through social connection and community. He argues that we need a new story to make sense of the world and to open the gates for more practical proposals for transformation. In his book Out of the Wreckage: A Politics for an Age of Crisis, George Monbiot offers a diagnosis and set of prescriptions for our present crisis-ridden age.
Into this void have stepped various forms of demagoguery, characterized by vacuous simplifications, false promises, and strident antagonisms. His words perfectly reflect our present situation: the two great organizing narratives of 20th-century economics and politics-social democracy and neoliberalism-are both bankrupt, and no new narrative has arisen to mobilize meaning and social transformation. In the notebooks he drafted while imprisoned in a fascist jail, the great Italian radical Antonio Gramsci wrote, “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.”
Dawson’s pick is another urgent call to action.ĭawson’s Pick: Out of the Wreckage: A Politics for an Age of Crisis by George Monbiot (Verso)
In the eye-opening Extreme Cities (Verso), Dawson reveals just how unprepared we are for potential future climate disasters and calls for a reconceptualization of city living.
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