Naomi's next book will be on climate change. This TEDWomen talk gives an indication of what she's thinking:
In this interview with Bill Moyer Naomi says:
“Let’s rebuild by actually getting at the root causes. Let’s respond by aiming for an economy that responds to the crisis both through inequality and climate change. You know, dream big.”
Clive Hamilton addresses similar issues in Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist the Truth About Climate Change. This is highly recommended reading, but will leave you without much hope for the future of civilisation. Which may not be such a bad thing.
Check out Clive's video page, including this Royal Society of Arts lecture:
Today there will be mass rallies and demonstrations across the USA to oppose construction of the Keystone XL pipeline and demand action on climate change. But what will force a change of direction in a capitalist economic system that's dependent on perpetual growth?
Climate change - and our apparent inability to avert ecocide and our own extinction - confronts us with a major psychological challenge: how to stay sane and positive in a world without hope?
This is what I'm presently working on. Margaret Wheatley's latest book So Far From Home and some of her articles speak to this.
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