The reality of runaway climate change is inextricably linked with the mass consumerist
capitalist society in which we live. And the cult of endless growth and endless consumption of
cheap disposable commodities isn't only destroying the world it is damaging ourselves and our
way of being. How do we stop the impending catastrophe and how can we create a movement
capable of confronting it head-on? In Alternative Hedonism philosopher Kate Soper offers an
urgent plea for a new vision of the good life one that is capable of delinking prosperity from
endless growth. Instead she calls for a renewed emphasis on the joys of being one that is
capable of collective happiness not in consumption but by creating a future that allows not
only for more free time and less conventional and more creative ways of using it but also for
more fulfilling ways of working and existing. This is an urgent and necessary intervention into
debates on climate change.
