How Not To Save The World - Anthea Lawson Book Launch

Join us to celebrate the new thought-provoking and hopeful book by Anthea Lawson.

Anthea will be in conversation with the brilliant Emma River-Roberts from The Working-Class Climate Alliance. There will be time for a Q&A with the audience and signings from the author.

How Not To Save The World: Doing Good Without Annoying Everyone

Do you want to change the world but wonder if there’s any point trying?

Are you unsure what you can offer, or don’t feel that you fit the activist mould?

Do you think activists can be self-righteous, even oblivious to the very people they’re trying to help?

How Not To Save the World is a book about doing good, for anyone who has looked at politics or public discourse and thought, ‘we need better than this.’ The fervour that drives us to change the world can create blind spots, where we don’t see our own behaviour, or disregard it because the cause is urgent.

Realistic, candid and hopeful, How Not To Save the World is a sympathetic exploration of alternatives to righteousness, purity traps and other unhelpful habits. It shows that there are ways to work together for what matters, without alienating the people we need to convince.

Anthea Lawson has fought for many issues over three decades including controls on the arms trade and an end to the financial secrecy offered by tax havens. She helped launch a campaign for transparency over company ownership which resulted in changes to the law in dozens of countries. After training as a journalist at The Times, she worked for campaign groups including Global Witness and Amnesty International. Her books How Not To Save The World and The Entangled Activist explore the psychological, spiritual and philosophical foundations of activism and change-making.

Emma River-Roberts is the Founder and Co-Director of the The Working-Class Climate Alliance. Emma is an Affiliate of the Post Growth Institute, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

We apologise for the inconvenience but our bookshop is currently not wheelchair accessible. 

The toilets are located on the ground floor. 

The event space/bookroom café is located at the top of a staircase (17 steps).

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