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2025: What next for the Make Poverty History generation?

2025
What next for the Make Poverty History Generation?
Tom Hampson and others

Fabian ideas 619
ISBN 978 0 7163 06238
£6.95

Twenty years on from Live Aid and one year on from Gleneagles and Live 8, this collection of essays looks ahead to the global justice and sustainability challenges of the next 20 years, and the campaigns we will need to tackle them.

What future is there for the progressive coaltions that campaigned for change in the 20th century? Essays by Michelle Harrison, Tom Hampson, Hilary Benn, Robert Cooper, Vandana Shiva, and Clare Short.

Britain came a long way from Live Aid in 1985 to Live 8 in 2005. What will the next twenty years hold? What positive vision for 2025 is needed to keep the Make Poverty History generation mobilised?

In this unique collaborative project, the Fabian Society has worked with Henley Centre Headlight Vision to identify the forces which will shape the world and our attitudes over the next two decades, and to ask what this will mean for those campaigning for global justice. How could attitudes towards Britain's global role and responsibilities change? Who will we hold responsible for global problems and will we accept the need to bring about change in our own lives.

This pamphlet is not an attempt to predict the future but to rehearse possible futures, and to ask what progressives must do to bring about greater global justice and sustainability. Michelle Harrison outlines the Henley findings and four scenarios for 2025. Will we have Choice Unlimited or the values of The 'Good' Life? Will we see 'The Puritans Return' or a retreat into 'My Home, My Castle'

The Fabian Society is grateful to TUFM for their support of this project.

You can read the first chapter of this pamphlet here: 2025: Summary

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