Friends tell me I get a bit over-excited about things ... and they are probably right ... but I make no apology for being very excited about my reading of Paul Kingsnorth's 'One No, Many Yeses'. If ever a book came along just at the time when I needed it this is the book!
Week by week the news seems to be full of gloom and doom. Folk say that wars have always happened, that cancer isn't really on the increase it's just that we hear more about it, that corruption in high places has always been rife. And then they say that because I'm getting older I feel threatened by the modern world. But no, I've gradually come to the conclusion (backed up by the findings and views of most sane and reasonable people) that the world is in pretty dire straights and that the future doesn't look too rosy.
In looking for the answer to the question 'What can we do to change direction?' Paul Kingsnorth's well-researched and very readable book has given me hope: He throws light on the root of our problems and gives examples from all over the world of people who are banding together to challenge globalisation.
The book was written 10 years ago so I'm on a mission to not only find out just what has happened to these movements since the book was published but also to encourage everyone I know to read the book. Please put it at the top of your 'must do' list for 2014!
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