Another Way

Industrial societies today face pressure from two directions. Several environmental problems are reaching a critical stage just as the public's confidence in democratic institutions is slipping. Demands for sweeping change are being met with indifference, and the reason is easy to see: abandoning fossil fuels before a workable replacement exists would be catastrophic.

In this book, John Louis Martin offers a different lens for understanding the crisis humanity must now face. Drawing on many twentieth-century writers as well as on ancient traditions, he argues for reviving older values of caring for the Earth as its steward. He asks readers to step back from the ideal of unlimited growth and to recognize their place in a universe shaped by 13.8 billion years of evolution.

The book also lays out practical policies meant to begin a long transition that could help communities recover from the current danger and move toward sustainability.