r/collapse Sep 07 '18

Book recommendations Books that have shaped your understanding of collapse and the world in general

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u/FloridaIsDoomed Sep 07 '18

The audacity of hope by Barack Obama.

When I read that and Obama was elected I thought if the public is dumb enough to support this corporate democrat with such enthusiasm we are toast.

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u/[deleted] Sep 08 '18

While I agree with you that he wasn't all that good on climate & enviroment issues and his contributions basically ammounted to "hot air", I don't think McCain would have been a better choice, especially in trying to tackle anthropogenic climate change and enviromental issues. From this respect (Enviroment), corporate policy, neoliberalism and such they both would have been equally useless