We Can Do Better

Here is the encouragement and the tools we need to go into action and build the world we want to live in. It is time that each of us individually, and as a society, allowed ourselves to think anew, to dream and ask; Who do we want to be and how do we want to live?

Autorentext

Dr Maja Göpel is a political economist and an important voice for a sustainable transformation of society, working at the intersection of the economy, politics, and society. From 2017 to 2020, she was secretary-general of the German Advisory Council on Global Change, and in 2019 was appointed honorary professor at the Leuphana University of Lüneburg. She is a member of the Club of Rome, the World Future Council, the Balaton Group, the German government's Bioeconomy Council, and a co-founder of the Scientists for Future network.

Klappentext

World-leading political economist Maja Göpel shows us how we can set the course for the future in times of upheaval, and why this concerns us all.

The way we live is changing fundamentally. The status quo is crumbling, but there is still reason to hope. Drawing on the latest scientific research, Maja Göpel distils complex developments across the environment, the economy, politics, society, and technology, and reveals how we can use this knowledge for a better world.

Great transformations in history were triggered by humans, and our window to the future is as open as never before. It is time that we - each of us individually, but also society as a whole - allowed ourselves to think anew, to dream, and to ask a radical question: who do we want to be?

After her previous book, Rethinking Our World, eloquently untangled the chaotic world we live in, Maja Göpel now gives readers the tools and motivation needed to build the world we want to live in.

Zusammenfassung

After her previous book, Rethinking Our World, eloquently untangled the complex world we live in, Maja Göpel delivers the encouragement and the tools we need to go into action and build the world we want to live in.

Humanity is undergoing a massive process of transformation, and the way we live will change fundamentally, because things we have taken for granted about the environment, the economy, politics, society, and technology are crumbling. In We Can Do Better, Maja Göpel explains how we can understand such complex developments and use this knowledge to achieve a better world.

There have always been great transformations in history, triggered by humans thus, we can also shape them. Our window to the future is as open as never before. With this attitude, structural change is not an imposition, but an opportunity. It is time that we each of us individually, but also society as a whole allowed ourselves to think anew, to dream, and to ask two related, radical questions: Who do we want to be, and how do we want to live?