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John Green reviews Out of the Wreckage by George Monbiot

Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics in the Age of Crisis by George Monbiot (Verso, £14.99)

George Monbiot, vociferous and articulate about the dangers confronting our planet, needs no introduction to many on the left and this book is an attempt to take his previous How Did We Get into This Mess? a stage further.

In it he constructs a densely packed portfolio of ideas for solving the issues facing us.

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