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What would it be like if we put human and planetary well being at the centre of ail our decision making? Enough is the basis of a rewarding contemporary answer to that question. This book explores:

Acknowledgements	p. x
Introduction	p. 1
Thinking about progress	p. 4
Plan of the book	p. 6
You, the reader and me, the writer	p. 10
Reflecting on Enough	p. 12
Enough and ecology	p. 15
Enough and aesthetics	p. 17
Enough and Morality	p. 18
Enough and Spirituality	p. 20
Making progress	p. 22
What enough is not	p. 23
Cope, critique, resist and create	p. 25
When we Ignore Enough
The contemporary capitalist economic system	p. 29
A monetarist outlook	p. 30
Economies of scale and the global stage	p. 35
Who is in charge?	p. 37
Who benefits?	p. 41
Hollow benefits in affluent countries too	p. 42
Insecurity becomes endemic	p. 45
Escaping before the crash	p. 47
Suicidal Agriculture	p. 50
Beginnings	p. 52
The biological risks of industrializing agriculture	p. 55
Animal suffering	p. 57
Effects on human health	p. 59
The greenhouse gas emissions	p. 61
Changes in the Common Agricultural Policy	p. 62
The social and human effects of industrial agriculture	p. 63
Work and industrialized agriculture	p. 66
Long supply chains	p. 68
Conclusion	p. 69
Regulating for Freedom	p. 71
Accepted: the need to reduce and regulate carbon emissions	p. 74
Needed: a fair process for regulation	p. 75
The global commons	p. 75
Individuals first: why the framework gives quotas to people not government	p. 79
The practicalities of a fair system	p. 80
Why tradable individual quotas are better than other options for reduction	p. 82
Complementary interventions	p. 87
Can Contraction and Convergence actually happen?	p. 89
The Cap and Share campaign: first steps	p. 92
Conclusion	p. 93
Financial Security	p. 94
Financial security for all	p. 95
Linking security, reduced demand, and reduced growth	p. 96
Equity: a prerequisite for security	p. 98
Problems with a minimum wage	p. 99
Problems with welfare	p. 99
Paying for a Citizens' Income	p. 101
How much?	p. 105
Who gets it?	p. 106
Who qualifies as a citizen?	p. 108
How work could be transformed when decoupled from money	p. 110
Conclusion	p. 114
Future Food	p. 116
Intelligent Agriculture	p. 117
Balancing urban and rural	p. 121
Social life	p. 122
Getting there: reform of the Common Agricultural Policy as a model for western countries	p. 123
Creating Intelligent Agriculture outside formal structures: a worldwide food movement	p. 126
A food culture	p. 127
Getting rid of the obsession with cheap food	p. 128
Formal structures to support the food movement	p. 130
Is food security really possible?	p. 137
Policy and Principles	p. 139
Keystone attitudes	p. 143
Citizen-Leaders in the Movement for Enough	p. 146
Citizen-leadership	p. 147
Cultivating the middle ground	p. 149
The value of the ordinary	p. 152
Redefining wealth: qualitative development	p. 154
Power and imagination	p. 157
History	p. 159
New stories about change	p. 160
Our World, our Selves	p. 163
The capacity to think	p. 165
The capacity to feel	p. 165
Contemplating dependency	p. 173
Care	p. 174
Uncertainty and mystery	p. 179
Conclusion	p. 182
Tasks for the daring	p. 184
Coping well in the present	p. 185
Enough of this book	p. 188
Chapter Notes	p. 190
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