I’ve had the .pdf of this book for many months and not got around to reading it until now. I wish I had got to it sooner as it is a good read and a good advert for green politics.
I did turn to the last chapter, Greenism: A Complete Political Philosophy to start and that whetted my appetite for the rest which comprises 12 chapters in four sections: Active Freedom; True Prosperity; Healthy Life and True Resilience. Those expressive two-word headings indicate that the author has an eye for a headline as befits someone with a very solid journalistic career. Natalie Bennett can talk (she’s good, I’ve heard her several times) and I’d say she writes even better, in a direct, accessible manner.
Pretty obviously, this is a book about politics, about ideas for the future, about what sort of world we should live in – there can’t be many more important topics to think about. I accept and agree with most of Bennett’s views. Many readers of this blog probably do so too, already, but the difficulty is getting the power to implement a green agenda. Why, I wonder, are the Green parties of other nations more powerful than those of the UK? I don’t know the answer – maybe it’s because people like me find it difficult to dump the Labour Party for all its faults. Natalie has told me that I’ll make the transition one day, and I’m not going to say that she might not be right.
If you are not of a left-leaning and green persuasion I think you’ll enjoy this book even if you don’t agree with it. I subscribe to The Spectator even though many of the views in it are very different from my own, because I think it’s a good read. So is this book!
The cover? Functional and it is the correct colour. It isn’t trying to be anything grand and so it deserves an 8/10.
Change Everything: how we can rethink, repair and rebuild society by Natalie Bennett is published by Unbound.
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