Wild Democracy: Degrowth Permaculture and the Simpler Way

Wild Democracy is a daring and compelling collection of essays that explores the theory and practice of moving towards an equitable post-growth society and defends an alternative post-consumerist account of human flourishing. Thoreau believed that in wildness lies the preservation of the world and Samuel Alexander has shown us how we do this in our backyards our local communities and our everyday practices. He has done Thoreau proud.- Robyn Eckersley author of The Green State: Rethinking Democracy and Sovereignty Building bridges between different schools of thought Samuel Alexander outlines an alternative to the nightmare of a growth society racing towards collapse articulating various post-capitalist approaches between anarcho-marxism wild democracy and spirituality. In doing so this book attempts to overcome the old divide between reformism and revolution.- Serge Latouche author of Farewell to Growth Wild Democracy: Degrowth Permaculture and the Simpler Way is Samuel Alexanders third volume of collected essays following the publication of Prosperous Descent: Crisis as Opportunity in an Age of Limits (2015) and Sufficiency Economy: Enough for Everyone Forever (2015). He is also author of Deface the Currency: The Lost Dialogues of Diogenes (2016) Just Enough is Plenty: Thoreaus Alternative Economics (2016) and Entropia: Life Beyond Industrial Civilisation (2013) as well as being editor of Voluntary Simplicity: The Poetic Alternative to Consumer Culture (2009) and co-editor of Simple Living in History: Pioneers of the Deep Future (2014) and Words for Awakening: Voices of Inspired Revolt (2017). For more details see: www.samuelalexander.info