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    The Age of Consent

    By George Monbiot

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateMay 27, 2010
    ISBN9780007379545
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    The Age of Consent
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    George Monbiot

    Sam Sax is a queer, jewish, writer and educator. They are the author of Madness, winner of The National Poetry Series and Bury It, winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. They’re the two-time Bay Area Grand Slam Champion with poems published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Granta and elsewhere. Sam has received fellowships from The National Endowment for the Arts, The Poetry Foundation, Yaddo, and is currently serving as a Lecturer in the ITALIC program at Stanford University. Their first novel Yr Dead will be published by McSweeney’s in 2024.

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      This is one of those books with much to commend it, but for which my review is going to read negatively: perhaps this is almost inevitable when a book attempts to set a new political order for the world. George Monbiot accepts, in his conclusion, that this is not the definitive word upon the subject and that if it contributes to the movement, then its job has been done.This is definitely an admirable contribution and explains, rationally and without emotive terminology, the issues which make the failure of our current economic system inevitable: perhaps not today, may be not even tomorrow, but some day soon. Monbiot makes the case for greater equality between the rich and poor nations, not just because this is fair, but because it is ultimately in the interests of both parties. He provides a lucid explanation as to why we start from the position in which we currently find ourselves - and this, in itself, is a sufficient reason to urge the reading of this tome. The explanation of post WW II economic settlements is masterly, being short enough to retain the attention of someone whose eyes begin to glaze at the first mention of fiscal policy (ME!) and thorough enough to make it intelligible. I warned you, at the beginning, that this would read as a negative review but, so far, I have been remarkably positive: where I find myself unconvinced, is when George Monbiot champions the creation of a World Government. I have two issues with his argument; firstly, I find his explanation as to how one might be created to be dubious. He suggests that the many disaffected groups, who already meet up to protest the current system, become an unelected first draft. The pressure exerted by this 'parliament', will force the government's of the world powers to take note, causing a knock on effect of more groups becoming part of, and thus strengthening, the World Government. We have seen with recent anti-austerity demonstrations that the establishment has learned how to deal with opposition: they call upon their friends of the fourth estate to ignore rallies of staggering proportion and the mass of the people do not even know that they have happened. I have, more than once, had the conversation in which I am treated as a gullible fool for believing propaganda as "we'd surely have seen it on the TV news, if it had happened."My second point of contention with this argument is upon the very idea of a World Government. When have we seen the addition of a higher level of governance improve the lot of the man (or woman) at the bottom of the pile? I believe that the better option is to disseminate power back down to a local level. This is even more important when we are talking the means of production. Monbiot argues for an increase in worldwide trade, albeit slanted in favour of the poorer countries, but we cannot ignore the issues of climate change and need to obliterate the ridiculous system that sees products of a similar nature passing each other mid-ocean on their way to its point of sale.I am reluctant to end on such a negative note so, I will re-emphasise that, as a thought provoking book, this is well worth the read and that Mr Monbiot makes many good points which need to be assimilated into the future of governance.