The New Human Rights Movement by Peter Joseph

The New Human Rights Movement by Peter Joseph

Society is broken. We can design our way to a better one.

In our interconnected world, self-interest and social-interest are rapidly becoming indistinguishable. If current negative trajectories remain, including growing climate destabilization, biodiversity loss, and economic inequality, an impending future of ecological collapse and societal destabilization will make personal success virtually meaningless. Yet our broken social system incentivizes behavior that will only make our problems worse. If true human rights progress is to be achieved today, it is time we dig deeper--rethinking the very foundation of our social system.

In this engaging, important work, Peter Joseph, founder of the world's largest grassroots social movement--The Zeitgeist Movement--draws from economics, history, philosophy, and modern public-health research to present a bold case for rethinking activism in the 21st century.

Arguing against the long-standing narrative of universal scarcity and other pervasive myths that defend the current state of affairs, The New Human Rights Movement illuminates the structural causes of poverty, social oppression, and the ongoing degradation of public health, and ultimately presents the case for an updated economic approach. Joseph explores the potential of this grand shift and how we can design our way to a world where the human family has become truly sustainable.

The New Human Rights Movement reveals the critical importance of a unified activism working to overcome the inherent injustice of our system. This book warns against what is in store if we continue to ignore the flaws of our socioeconomic approach, while also revealing the bright and expansive future possible if we succeed.

Will you join the movement?

"Peter Joseph is one of the great visionaries of our timeIf there's a beautiful future--and I think there will be--then his fingerprints will be all over it." --Marianne Williamson, #1 New York Times bestselling author

Peter Joseph is a musician, filmmaker, author, and social activist from the United States who is best known for creating the award-winning Zeitgeist Film Series and founding the Zeitgeist Movement, a global social sustainability advocacy organization. Apart from current feature-film projects, Joseph created Culture in Decline, a free, television-style web series that has been translated into over twenty-five languages, won critical acclaim, and garnered millions of online views. Joseph has given talks on cultural and social sustainability, critical thinking, and the social function of the arts and scientific literacy all over the world, including the United Kingdom, Canada, America, Brazil, and Israel. His work has been featured in the New York Times, Huffington Post, Marker, Free Speech TV, The Young Turks, Hollywood Today, the Examiner, and many other media venues. He has spoken at TEDx events, worked with the Global Summit, and is a regular social critic on the Russian television network Russia Today.

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ISBN 13	9781942952657
ISBN 10	1942952651
Title	The New Human Rights Movement
Author	Peter Joseph
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	BenBella Books
Year published	2017-04-06
Number of pages	448
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