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DiscoverJeff Sparrow shortlisted for NSW Premier’s Award
Crimes Against Nature by Jeff Sparrow has been shortlisted for the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction at the 2023 NSW Premier’s Literary Awards.
The judges said, ‘the book outlines the deeper economic and political forces behind the climate crisis and exposes the current falsehood that holds individual consumers responsible for systems that were expressly designed to shape, control, and subdue individual and community wishes. Culpability, Sparrow reveals, lies with leaders motivated by profit and power, by institutional measures of success and notions of ‘progress’ that undermine community and fracture people’s scope for creative and meaningful work and fulfilling lives. In deft, clear and accessible prose, Sparrow explains that human nature is not inherently destructive — rather, a combination of relatively modern economic and political forces have colluded to encourage and even mandate nature-destroying habits.’
Read the full judges’ comments here.
Crimes Against Nature
A polemic about global warming and the environmental crisis, which argues that ordinary people have consistently opposed the destruction of nature and so provide an untapped constituency for climate action.
Crimes Against Nature uses fresh material to offer a very different take on the most important issue of our times. It takes the familiar narrative about global warming — the one in which we are all to blame — and inverts it, to show how, again and again, pollution and ecological devastation have been imposed on the population without our consent and (often) against our will. From histories of…
