The Age of Consent

A manifesto for a new world order. Having made a hugely significant contribution to the increasingly irrefutable, if alarming, diagnosis of the ills of early 21st century consumerist culture and its free-market myths, George Monbiot sets out now with this book to offer something more constructive, a set of proposals - political, democratic, economic, environmental - that might affect the cultural change that many in the West (not to mention those on the outside of the West looking in) now want but scarcely know how to make happen. 'The Age of Consent' is provocative, brave, even utopian. But, with most of the 20th century's Big Ideas dead in the gutter, it's time for a book that can be a touchstone for real debate about the political and economic presumptions and prejudices on which our society has rested since World War II. • The next essential read for the NO LOGO generation - answers their big question: what they should do next • Monbiot is a very authoritative and persuasive de facto figurehead for the contrarian movements in the UK. • A short, searing call to action - set to be one of the most explosive, much-debated books of the year. • A regular commentator on TV and radio, in the open air and in the press, his previous book, Captive State, a ringing litany of political and corporate abuse in Blair's Britain, has become a benchmark and was a Top Ten paperback bestseller for Pan.