The warnings from scientist are urgent and unequivocal: our civilisation is unwittingly stepping in front of an ecological lorry that is about to flatten us.  We are using resources future generations will need, damaging environmental systems and compromising social stability by increasing the gap between rich and poor.

In short, we are consuming the future.  Without radical re-thinking of the way we currently live, our society is under servious threat.

In A Big Fix, pre-eminent scientist and environmentalist Ian Lowe tackles this problem head on and offers far-reaching solutions to our environmental and social crisis.  He advocates a fundamental change to our values and social institutions and offers a vision of a healthier society - one that is humane, takes an ecocentric approach, adopts long-term thinking, uses our natural resources responsibly and is informed about the fragility of our natural systems.