Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Part 1 There Is Such a Thing as Society
1 Falling Apart 9
2 Deviant and Proud 14
3 Work-Force 19
4 Addicted to Comfort 23
5 Dead Zone 27
6 Help Addicts, but Lock Up the Casual Users of Cocaine 32
Part 2 Lost Youth
7 Rewild the Child 39
8 The Child Inside 43
9 Amputating Life Close to Its Base 48
10 'Bug Splats' 53
11 Kin Hell 58
12 The Sacrificial Caste 62
13 A Modest Proposal for Tackling Youth 67
14 Pro-Death 72
Part 3 The Wild Life
15 Everything Is Connected 79
16 Civilisation Is Boring 88
17 End of an Era 99
18 The Population Myth 103
19 The Dawning 108
Part 4 Feeding Frenzy
20 Sheepwrecked 119
21 Ripping Apart the Fabric of the Nation 123
22 Drowning in Money 130
23 Small Is Bountiful 139
Part 5 Energy Vampires
24 Leave It in the Ground 147
25 Applauding Themselves to Death 152
26 The Grime behind the Crime 160
27 Going Critical 164
28 Power Crazed 169
Part 6 Riches and Ruins
29 The Impossibility of Growth 175
30 Curb Your Malthusiasm 179
31 Kleptoremuneration 184
32 The Self-Attribution Fallacy 188
33 The Lairds of Learning 193
34 The Man Who Wants to Northern Rock the Planet 198
35 The Gift of Death 203
Part 7 Dance with the One Who Brung You
36 How the Billionaires Broke the System 209
37 Plutocracy's Boot Boys 213
38 How Did We Get Into This Mess? 217
39 Going Naked 222
Part 8 Out of Sight, Out of Mind
40 The Holocaust We Will Not See 227
41 The Empire Strikes Back 232
42 Unremitting Pain 236
43 Bomb Everyone 241
Part 9 Holding Us Down
44 A Global Ban on Leftwing Politics 249
45 Innocent until Proved Dead 254
46 The Paranoia Squad 258
47 Union with the Devil 263
Part 10 Finding Our Place
48 Someone Else's Story 271
49 Highland Spring 275
50 A Telling Silence 280
51 The Values of Everything 285
Acknowledgements 291
Notes 293
Index 333