[P2P-F] Fwd: New book: Switching off the autopilot

[Michel Bauwens]

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Date: Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 4:43 PM
Subject: New book: Switching off the autopilot
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July 2019

Dear Michel,

I’m excited to announce the launch of my new book, *Switching off the
autopilot: An evolutionary toolbox for the Great Transition*.

This book is about the ecological crisis that threatens to collapse our
entire civilisation. It is about the crisis of liberal democracy unfolding
before our eyes. And it is about a new approach that aims to tackle both
crises.

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<https://smart-csos.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=5cf566bc194b8a0b681ceefb4&id=4764ddf956&e=331c725150>Over
the last few years, campaigns and activist approaches to tackling systemic
problems have increasingly looked at the world through a lens of identity,
power and privilege. I’m deeply con­cerned that this approach is highly
divisive and counterproductive. Instead of bringing us closer to tackling
our most pressing issues, like climate change, they contribute to further
polit­ical polarisation and increase the risk of authoritarian regimes. The
current political climate might set us back many years from tackling the
eco­lo­gical crisis, years we don’t have. It might also reverse some of the
en­ormous social progress made in recent years instead of contributing to a
fairer world.

I haven’t written this book with the hope that everybody would agree with
the ideas I set out. In fact, I have written it because over the last few
years I have felt that the strategy discussions about the Great Transition
I have been involved in have too often operated within an ideological echo
chamber, where arguments and evidence are selected to justify the
pre-existing intuitions. I hope to provide an impulse towards bursting the
ideological bubble.

The book argues that civil society leaders and funders have a lot to gain
from adopting an evolutionary worldview. Evolutionary science teaches us
how we got to where we are now, and how understanding our gene-culture
co-evolutionary heritage will make it much easier to switch off our
destructive deep-seated tendency for tribalism and design a good society.
We have to shift all our attention to tackling the hard problem of
evolution: figuring out how to adapt to the new conditions on Earth much
faster than humanity has ever done or has had to do.

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Best wishes,
Micha
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