Alec Leach made his name with his sell-out first book, The World Is On Fire But We’re Still Buying Shoes, which was about making sense of shopping in an age of crisis.
With his follow-up, Someone Should Stop This, he says, 'I’m thinking about the future, and how the path toward a stable atmosphere could take us away from this darker form of politics – and toward something better.There’s the wars, the fascist politics, the unaffordable economy, the burnout jobs and the Big Tech billionaires. And then there’s climate change, looking like the final boss of it all.'
But what, the book asks us, if climate change could show us the links between far-right politics, toxic masculine echo chambers and our declining quality of life? It's all about about carbon emissions and solar panels, but also new ideas about wellbeing and belonging, fairer economics and ambitious political movements that refuse to accept a broken status quo.
