Why the lonesome sustainability cowboy won′t save the planet: Let′s finally ditch our illusion of the autonomous individual.
- Paul Murray, London, Washington, DC: Earthscan; 2011; 272 pages. $28.95 (soft cover)
... Murray rekindles the old myths—so much an integral part of the American Dream—that the burden for changing the world to the better lies with the individual. The book is over large parts simply a sustainability-focused version of all the popular self-help books, which flooded the market coinciding with Margaret Thatchers′ announcement in the 1980s that there is no such thing as a society. He pretends, just as popular management manuals, that with a decent set of instruments, tools and skills anybody can change the world. ... (Orig.)
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