Essays · 2015
Drinking Molotov Cocktails with Gandhi
On resistance, ecology and change
Gandhi has been a guiding light in Mark Boyle's life ever since a film about him changed its direction. In this book, Mark asks a hard question of the movement he belongs to: is peaceful protest still enough?
With the living world in crisis, Mark argues that the environmental movement has grown too comfortable, too willing to fight industrial civilisation on its own terms, and too slow to face the scale of what is being lost. He looks at the roots of that crisis, the limits of reform, and the full range of ways people have resisted, from lifestyle change and community building to direct action.
Provocative, personal and deliberately uncomfortable, this is a book for anyone who cares about the earth and wonders whether what we are doing is working.
- Publisher
- Permanent Publications
- Published
- 2015
- Genre
- Essays / Environment
- ISBN
- 9781856232432
Buy the book
Published in North America by New Society Publishers.
Inside the Book
The questions it asks
Is it working?
An honest look at decades of environmental campaigning, and at the gap between its efforts and its results.
Gandhi, revisited
What Gandhi actually believed about resistance, and how his ideas are often softened in the retelling.
Living the change
Why changing how we live, locally and by hand, is itself a profound form of resistance.
