Seven Ways to Change the World: How To Fix The Most Pressing Problems We Face

Seven Ways to Change the World: How To Fix The Most Pressing Problems We Face

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  • Author:Gordon Brown
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Summary

'His vision, ideas and passion shine through on every page' Ed Balls
'Compelling, challenging, inspiring and very timely' Piers Morgan
'Immensely powerful and persuasive。。。I found it exhilarating throughout' Joanna Lumley

When the Covid-19 pandemic swept across the globe in 2020, it created an unprecedented impact, greater than the aftermath of 9/11 or the global financial crisis。 But out of such disruption can come a new way of thinking, and in this superb new book former UK prime minister Gordon Brown offers his solutions to the challenges we face in 2021 and beyond。

In the book, he states that there are seven major global problems we must address: global health; climate change and environmental damage; nuclear proliferation; global financial instability; the humanitarian crisis and global poverty; the barriers to education and opportunity; and global inequality and its biggest manifestation, global tax havens。 Each one presents an immense challenge that requires an urgent global response and solution。 All should be on the world’s agenda today。 None can be solved by one nation acting on its own, but all can be addressed if we work together as a global community

However, Brown remains optimistic that, despite the many obstacles in our way, we will find a path to regeneration via a new era of global order。 Yes, there is a crisis of globalisation, but we are beginning to see the means by which it might be resolved。 Crises create opportunities and having two at once shouldn’t just focus the mind, it might even be seen as giving greater grounds for hope。 In Seven Ways to Change the World, Brown provides an authoritative and inspirational pathway to a better future that is essential reading for policy makers and concerned citizens alike。 

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Reviews

Mr Alister Cryan

A big beastAt times this book is very heavy going but there are some real gems in the text waiting to be found by the reader who perseveres

Donna Scott

I'll start this review with a personal note: back in 2010, I stood on a green somewhere in Milton Keynes with political commentators from OU and elsewhere - and also the manager of the local Indian restaurant, dragged in, like me for a Vox pop by Sky News。 As a new, young but actually nearly middle-aged comedian, I grabbed at this opportunity to be on the telly, though the production assistant asked if I had any more make-up on me, and when I said no suggested I might want to brush my hair。 (Rud I'll start this review with a personal note: back in 2010, I stood on a green somewhere in Milton Keynes with political commentators from OU and elsewhere - and also the manager of the local Indian restaurant, dragged in, like me for a Vox pop by Sky News。 As a new, young but actually nearly middle-aged comedian, I grabbed at this opportunity to be on the telly, though the production assistant asked if I had any more make-up on me, and when I said no suggested I might want to brush my hair。 (Rude!) Anyway, we were being asked what we made of the new TV debates。 I bucked the trend of the discussion by disagreeing with everybody else about whether they would be a good thing。 I think I said something like they would make good telly, but some of the participants had done the whole debating society thing at uni and would be better placed for the bluster and cheap point scoring of such a thing, delivering politics in appealing soundbites for the hard of thinking, whereas some would not be as good at that sort of thing, being more thoughtful and quietly spoken。 I meant Gordon Brown。 And I was flipping right。 And "I was flipping right" could be the alternative subtitle of this book for the beginning at least。 Brown's thoughts about the future。。。 Well with future hindsight, we'll see。This book is the easy political explanation of stuff thought by Gordon Brown on as much of a platter for the slightly hard of political thinking like me as Gordon Brown probably feels comfortable with。 As an essay, needs more citations。 As a political memoir, it's quite dry (I did laugh at the Berlusconi anecdote, but like much of Brown's political speeches it does beat you in the brain with how just not dumbed down it is)。 As a manifesto, it's a bit brilliant。I don't think I appreciated the brain of Gordon Brown while he was PM。 None of us did。 He seemed to get the blame for things, but if he's right, why aren't we aware he actually saved the world in 2008? Well, Europe at least。Seven manifesto points, broadly very compelling。 I'm glad I picked this up。 We have a lot of work to do, but I am - a little bit - hopeful。 。。。more