{"product_id":"down-to-earth-by-bruno-latour-9781509530571","title":"Down to Earth","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe present ecological mutation has organised the whole political landscape for the last thirty years. This could explain the deadly cocktail of exploding inequalities, massive deregulation, and conversion of the dream of globalisation into a nightmare for most people.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat holds these three phenomena together is the conviction, shared by some powerful people, that the ecological threat is real and that the only way for them to survive is to abandon any pretence at sharing a common future with the rest of the world. Hence their flight offshore and their massive investment in climate change denial.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Left has been slow to turn its attention to this new situation. It is still organised along an axis that goes from investment in local values to the hope of globalisation, just at the time when, everywhere, people dissatisfied with the ideal of modernity are turning back to the protection of national or even ethnic borders.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is why it is urgent to shift sideways and to define politics as what leads toward the Earth and not toward the global or the national. Belonging to a territory is the phenomenon most in need of rethinking and careful redescription; learning new ways to inhabit the Earth is our biggest challenge. Bringing us \u003cem\u003edown to earth\u003c\/em\u003e is the task of politics today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47596292735212,"sku":"9781509530571","price":30.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/e89c8e2b52bf5cbcb844eb13b97a1387.jpg?v=1777930556","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/down-to-earth-by-bruno-latour-9781509530571","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}