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Rising Tides confronts the most urgent
agenda of our age.
As climatic change turns millions into refugees
and President George W. Bush continues to dismiss the notion
of global warming; as world leaders are unable to meet without
attracting mass protests and the acceleration of environmental
issues confronts us daily, the battle to preserve the environment
for future generations is reaching critical mass.
Rising Tides is an extensively researched
and engagingly written examination of the many factors that
have shaped ecological thought over the ages. Challenging
the basic assumptions of the Western worldview, Spowers
exposes the fundamental flaws in a system that believes
in unlimited economic growth within a finite world and has
confused financial worth with the real wealth of the natural
systems upon which we are all dependent.
The rift is growing between a powerful elite
pushing their policies of globalisation and a world-wide
network disillusioned with notions of growth, wealth and
progress, Rising Tides suggests ways in which we
can all plug in to this network, rescue our economic system
from manipulation by the corporate elite and help to create
the sort of world we want to live in.
Rory Spowers is a freelance writer and
broadcaster, contributing to the Daily Telegraph
(London), Harpers and Oueen, Geographical Magazine,
Environment Digest, Resurgence and BBC
Radio. He lives in Wales.
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