Frances Moore Lappé

Frances Moore Lappe whose earlier book Diet For A Small Planet showed many people how eating less meat could not benefit themselves but the whole world addresses our thinking in Ecomind. She points out seven of what she calls "thought traps" what we might call conventional wisdom, and then shows a number of ways we can think differently as we reclaim our world. Thought trap # 7 is "it is too late" to change our warming climate. The author shows how we must reclaim democracy to save our world, and gives many examples including the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Arab Spring to demonstrate that ordinary humans can do that.
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