A passionate indictment of the major political parties in Britain today for their failure to face the biggest issues on the British political agenda.
These are issues of survival / not just of ourselves or our families, not just of the immediate environment or of our own country, but of the world itself. Politicians of every tradition have let us down, They offer the superficial appeal of a temporary prosperity. They make no promise for the future.
This book brings together prominent people from socialist, liberal and green traditions together with those from whose experience lies in pressure groups. What they have in common is more remarkable than what divides them despite the fact that they have been candidates for opposing political parties. The empty rhetoric of the twentieth century politics has proved of no worth. This book explores the opportunities for a new and green parliamentary politics which will take us beyond the politics of Thatcher and Kinnock and into the 21st century
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Preface Felix Dodds
Green Values Jeremy Seabrook
A Critique Towards Realignment Michael Meadowcroft (former MP)
Liberal Values Into the 1990s Simon Hebditch
Ecological Sustainability Peter Tatchell
We are all Connected Meg Beresford
The Environmental Crisis Simon Hughes MP
Creating the New Economic Orthodoxy Liz Crosbie
Reclaiming the Politics of Emancipation Hilary Wainwright
Towards a Green Europe and a Green World Petra Kelly (former member of the German Parliament)
Liberal Roots to a Green Future Tim Cooper
Moves Towards a Green Future Jean Lambert (now MEP)
A Strategy for New Alliances Peter Hain (now MP)
Green Strategy Sara Parkin
The Politics of Realignment Felix Dodds and Mike Harskin
Realigning the Vision Jonathon Porritt
About the Author:
Felix Dodds is a writer, activist and futurist who has been active at the global level on sustainable development agenda for more than twenty years. He is currently the co-director of the 2014 Nexus Conference on climate, energy, food and water as well as being a Fellow at the Global Research Institute at the University of North Carolina and an Associate Fellow at the Tellus Institute in Boston. He was the Executive Director of Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future for twenty years (1993-2012) and the co-director of the Water and Climate Coalition from 2007 to 2012.
He is currently serving on the advisory board for the Collaborative Institute on Ocean, Climate and Security. In 2011 he chaired the United Nations DPI 64th NGO Conference 'Sustainable Communities - Responsive Citizens' which had a big impact on the Rio+20 Conference. He has served on a number of advisory boards including the Bonn 2001 Water Conference, the Bonn 2004 Energy Conference, the Bonn 2011 Nexus Conference, the Eye of the Earth Summit 2011 Conference and the Planet Under Pressure 2012 Conference. He was also on the Green Globe Task Force which advised the UK Foreign Secretary from 1997-2004. Felix co-chaired the NGO Coalition at the UN from 1997 to 2001 and is credited with introducing the concept of stakeholder dialogues to the UN commission on Sustainable Development in 1996.
This is his tenth book on sustainable development his last one 'One One Earth - The Long Road via Rio to Sustainable Development was with Michael Strauss and Maurice Strong. His book Human and Environmental Security (2005) was nominated for the International Studies Association Sprout Award.
In 2010 he was named as one of the 25 people ahead of his time greenecoservices.com/25-environmentalists-ahead-of-their-time/
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- PublisherGreen Print
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 1854250140
- ISBN 13 9781854250148
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages203
- EditorMeg Beresford, Tim Cooper, Liz Crosbie, Peter Hain, Mike Harskin, Simon Hebditch, Simon Hughes, Petra Kelly, Jean Lambert, Michael Meadowcroft, Sara Parkin, Jeremy Seabrook, Peter Tatchell, Hilary Wainwright