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- Product code: 23310
- ISBN: 0955149908,
ISBN13: 9780955149900,
224 pages, paperback
Published by www.greatbefore.com on 2005
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Description of The Great Before |
In the Great Before the anti-globalisation lobby gets a lot of what it wants: consumption of fossil fuel ceases, the earth becomes treated with great reverence and everyone goes back to eating local food. But in other ways the result is far from being a non-globalised utopia: warfare erupts between neighbouring English villages and the poor are pressed into feudal service. Large parts of the country come into the grip of a Christian Taliban, which prohibits all use of machinery and suppresses scientific learning.
In this startling and intelligent analysis of a post-industrial world, activities which we take for granted are reduced to myth and legend. We see the industrial world through the eyes of those who must live with its aftermath, and who blame their every misfortune on the greed and callousness of the people who preceded them.
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Reviews"By turns comical and provocative, a masterful and all-too-plausible picture of a world in which the blithering anti-globalisers get their way. Ross Clark is one of the great talents of modern British journalism and you would be mad to miss this book."
Boris Johnson
"In this invigorating, clever and often very funny satire, Ross Clark mocks the pieties of our age that have replaced the pieties of our forefathers"
Anthony Daniels, The Spectator, 31 December 2005
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About Ross Clark |
Ross Clark is a columnist on the Times and the Spectator, where for some years he wrote the popular 'Globophobia' column. He is also a frequent contributor to the Sunday Telegraph and the Mail on Sunday.
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