Paul Gilding is an international thought leader and advocate for sustainability. He has served as head of Greenpeace International, built and led two companies, and advised both Fortune 500 corporations and community-based NGOs. A member of the core faculty for the Cambridge University Program for Sustainability Leadership, he blogsat www.paulgilding.com, and his newsletter, the Cockatoo Chronicles, has subscribers around the world.
"We're in the rapids now, heading for the falls, too late to swim for shore. But Paul Gilding offers some excellent insights into how we might weather that which we can no longer completely prevent--and how we can still prevent that which we won't be able to weather. If you're planning to stick around for the 21st century, this might be a useful book to consult." --Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth, founder of 350.org. "Gilding offers a clear-eyed and moving assessment of our predicament but more importantly, he offers a plausible way forward and good reasons to think we will rise to the occasion. His message is that our situation is dire, but we will act because we must. Essential reading." --David W. Orr, Paul Sears Distinguished Professor, Oberlin College, author of Hope is an Imperative and Down to the Wire "One of those who has been warning me [about a climate crisis] for a long time is Paul Gilding, the Australian environmental business expert. He has a name for this moment -- when both Mother Nature and Father Greed have hit the wall at once -- 'The Great Disruption.'" --Thomas Friedman in the New York Times "An Australian former director of Greenpeace International, Gilding says that our current economic model is driving the system over a cliff. We are already living beyond the planet's capacity to support us and a crisis is no longer avoidable. ... But this is actually a good thing. It will force us to learn that there is more to life than shopping." --Times (UK) "A refreshing, provocative alternative to the recent spate of gloom-and-doom climate-change studies." --Publishers Weekly "A remarkably optimistic view of the brave new world in our future" --Kirkus
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