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A timely polemic on greed- how it drove our ancesters out of their caves but is now sending us careering towards our destruction. Selfishness and greed have been our tools of survival from the very beginning, ever since our earliest forebears climbed down from the trees and set off across the savannah in search of God. Evolution has given us an instinct that is as crucial to our survival as fear or sex but, in the third millennium, greed has become out of control- The world's most expensive sandwich costs e85. A failed banker is given a pension fund approaching e700,000 a year A sacked national football coach waiting out his contract earns e13,000 a day. Spanning across a whole range of issues including obesity, American evangelism, the Iraq war and GM food, Greed is not just a lament for lost innocence or an assault on the fat cats - it's also a celebration of all that greed has prompted us to achieve and what should be possible for us in the future.

Author Biography:

Richard Girling is a senior feature writer for the Sunday Times Magazine. He has been awarded the title Journalist of the Year for two years in a row at the Press Gazette Environmental Press Awards 2008 and 2009. He has also been named Specialist Writer of the Year at the UK Press Awards in 2002 and was also shortlisted for this award in 2005 and 2006. He has been a consultant to the former Department of the Environment and the Department of Culture, Media and Sport and author of campaigns for the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE). He is currently a trustee of the Tree Council.
Release date Australia
February 29th, 2016
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Pages
368
Dimensions
127x198x23
ISBN-13
9780552173223
Product ID
24950232

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