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Radical Abundance

How to Win a Green Democratic Future
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Capitalism has created a world of bullshit abundance, where we have too much of what we don't need and too little of what we truly do. This hollow pursuit, achieved at the expense of both people and the planet, has forced us to confront ecological limits... Read More
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A blueprint for escaping capitalism and creating a world of true abundance

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Capitalism has created a world of bullshit abundance, where we have too much of what we don't need and too little of what we truly do. This hollow pursuit, achieved at the expense of both people and the planet, has forced us to confront ecological limits we can no longer ignore.

Radical abundance is the antithesis of bullshit abundance. It is producing more of what we need and less of what we don't; more free time, more biodiversity, more services owned by those who use them. Understanding that we cannot wait for political change under liberal democracies, we have the chance to experiment with exciting communal ways of creating radical abundance now, before it is too late.

Packed with fascinating research and real-life examples showing how we can sustain over 8 billion lives without destroying our planet, reading Radical Abundance will convince you that a better future is possible, if we want it.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780745351353

Publisher: Pluto Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 20 September 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Pluto Press

Illustration: 5 Figures

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 19.0mm

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 216.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 272

About the Author

Kai Heron is a political organiser, trade unionist, and Lecturer in Political Ecology at Lancaster Universityโ€™s Environment Centre. He is the co-editor of the De Gruyter Degrowth Handbook (2024) and has published widely on the politics of green transitions, political theory, and political economy in academic journals and in popular outlets including The New Statesman, Sidecar, Jacobin Magazine, the Verso blog, e-flux, Rupture Magazine, and Spectre Journal.

Keir Milburn is a writer, researcher, and activist. He has a background as an academic in political economy and organisational theory. His book Generation Leftย rovoked debate across several countries on generational political divides driven, in part, by generational imbalances in asset ownership. The book was reviewed in venues such as the London Review of Booksย and the New Left Review.ย He is an internationally recognised expert on economic democracy, the commons and Public-Common Partnerships, and is co-director of the think tank Abundance.

Bertie Russell is a Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He is an activist-researcher with a doctorate in critical geography from the University of Leeds. He specialises in urban commons, economic democracy, co-production and radical municipalism. He is co-editor of the forthcoming book Radical Municipalism: The Politics of the Common and the Democratization of Public Services.

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