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Everyone should read this. Tim Smit Alex Evans gives us a glimpse of what campaigning could deliver if we focussed on binding people together based on shared ideas. It couldn't be a more urgent task and we couldn't have a clearer or more necessary handbook. Kirsty McNeill, director of policy and campaigns, Save the Children This world has the potential to be a paradise for humanity but only if we change our world view. Alex Evans proposes another way of seeing and working. -- Richard Chartres, Bishop of London

Very short, very sharp -- Bruce Clark Economist Pertinent... Evans is an attractive and persuasive writer ... his book will strike many chords' -- Allan Massie Scotsman Everyone should read this. Tim Smit The Myth Gap is a beautiful synthesis of wisdom for the times we're in. Alex Evans melds deep insights from both scholarship and the front lines of social change to provide a perspective that may be essential to human survival. It's a must read for anyone considering how to save the world. Ricken Patel, President & CEO, AVAAZ Alex Evans gives us a glimpse of what campaigning could deliver if we focussed on binding people together based on shared ideas. It couldn't be a more urgent task and we couldn't have a clearer or more necessary handbook. Kirsty McNeill, director of policy and campaigns, Save the Children

Everyone should read this. Tim Smit The Myth Gap is a beautiful synthesis of wisdom for the times we're in. Alex Evans melds deep insights from both scholarship and the front lines of social change to provide a perspective that may be essential to human survival. It's a must read for anyone considering how to save the world. Ricken Patel, President & CEO, AVAAZ Alex Evans gives us a glimpse of what campaigning could deliver if we focussed on binding people together based on shared ideas. It couldn't be a more urgent task and we couldn't have a clearer or more necessary handbook. Kirsty McNeill, director of policy and campaigns, Save the Children This world has the potential to be a paradise for humanity but only if we change our world view. Alex Evans proposes another way of seeing and working. -- Richard Chartres, Bishop of London The Myth Gap takes on the most important and also most difficult problem of our day with rigor and creativity. Evans is not afraid to ask the big questions and he provides answers where other observers have stopped short. For anyone trying to contribute to a solution to global issues like climate change, this book is well worth your time. Jonah Sachs, author of The Story Wars

Everyone should read this. Tim Smit Alex Evans gives us a glimpse of what campaigning could deliver if we focussed on binding people together based on shared ideas. It couldn't be a more urgent task and we couldn't have a clearer or more necessary handbook. Kirsty McNeill, director of policy and campaigns, Save the Children This world has the potential to be a paradise for humanity but only if we change our world view. Alex Evans proposes another way of seeing and working. -- Richard Chartres, Bishop of London The Myth Gap takes on the most important and also most difficult problem of our day with rigor and creativity. Evans is not afraid to ask the big questions and he provides answers where other observers have stopped short. For anyone trying to contribute to a solution to global issues like climate change, this book is well worth your time. Jonah Sachs, author of The Story Wars

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Alex Evans is a Senior Fellow at New York University's Center on International Cooperation (CIC), with nearly twenty years' experience in climate and development policy. He is currently on secondment to the Business Commission on Sustainable Development as its Research Director. Alex has worked as Special Adviser to two UK Secretaries of State for International Development (Hilary Benn and Valerie Amos), as an expert on climate change in the UN Secretary-General's office, and with think tanks including Chatham House and the Brookings Institution. He has also worked as a consultant on futures and foreign policy for organizations from Oxfam to the US National Intelligence Council. Alex lives in North Yorkshire and is married with two children.

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