Life Rules

Corporate capitalism has ravaged the planet the way HIV ravages the human body, triggering a Critical Mass of cascading environmental, economic, social and political crises. Economic and climate instability, collapsing ecosystems, peak fossil fuels and devastating resource wars -- if Earth were a pa [...]
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Corporate capitalism has ravaged the planet the way HIV ravages the human body, triggering a Critical Mass of cascading environmental, economic, social and political crises. Economic and climate instability, collapsing ecosystems, peak fossil fuels and devastating resource wars -- if Earth were a patient, her condition would be critical. This book offers a comprehensive analysis of our present circumstances combined with a holistic treatment protocol for restoring health to vulnerable human and natural communities. Predicting that Life will last but, if we dont make some fundamental changes, life as we know it -- and a lot of us -- won't, this book identifies natural laws that have allowed non-human communities to thrive and prosper for several billion years, including: Local self-reliance; Mutual interdependence; Reliance on non-fossil sources of energy; Resource conservation, sharing and recycling; Co-operation and co-intelligence; Radically democratic self-organisation and governance. This sobering yet essentially optimistic manifesto is required reading for anyone concerned about our ability to live well and also within Earths means.A powerful tool for community transition and cultural transformation, this book offers a solution to our global challenges that is at once authentically hopeful, deeply inspiring and profoundly liberating.