{"product_id":"common-sense-for-the-21st-century-only-nonviolent-rebellion-can-now-stop-climate-breakdown-and-social-collapse-9781645020004","title":"Common Sense for the 21st Century: Only Nonviolent Rebellion Can Now Stop Climate Breakdown and Social Collapse","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Brilliant, wise, profound and persuasive. \u003cem\u003eCommon Sense for the 21st Century\u003c\/em\u003e will come to be recognized as a classic of political theory.\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e--George Monbiot, via Twitter\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn urgent, essential, and practical call to action from a cofounder of Extinction Rebellion \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat can we all do to avert catastrophe and avoid extinction? Roger Hallam has answers. In \u003cem\u003eCommon Sense for the 21st Century\u003c\/em\u003e, Roger Hallam, cofounder of Extinction Rebellion, outlines how movements around the world need to come together \u003cem\u003enow\u003c\/em\u003e to start doing what works: engaging in mass civil disobedience to make real change happen. The book gives people the tools to understand not only why mass disruption, mass arrests, and mass sacrifice are necessary but also details how to carry out acts of civil disobedience effectively, respectfully and nonviolently. It bypasses contemporary political theory, and instead is inspired by Thomas Paine, the pragmatic 18th-century revolutionary whose pamphlet \u003cem\u003eCommon Sense \u003c\/em\u003esparked the American Revolution. \u003cem\u003eCommon Sense for the 21st Century \u003c\/em\u003eurges us to confront the truth about climate change and argues forcefully that only a revolution of society and the state, similar to the turn that Paine urged the Americans to take into the political unknown, can save us now.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHallam, Roger:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eIn April 2018, Roger Hallam met with a group of 15 activists, environmentalists, and scientists in a café in Bristol. Along with Gail Bradbrook and Simon Bramwell, he and others founded Extinction Rebellion. A former organic farmer and long-time climate change activist, Hallam has been on successful hunger strikes, been arrested 10 times and has served a prison term, all in the service of preventing a climate catastrophe.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Chelsea Green Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50434695790866,"sku":"9781645020004","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1b53b469-5e2f-4694-98ba-046841aeeb21.jpg?v=1729607520","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/common-sense-for-the-21st-century-only-nonviolent-rebellion-can-now-stop-climate-breakdown-and-social-collapse-9781645020004","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}