All We Want Paperback by Michael Harris

Product Details

• Publisher: Anchor Canada (2025-04-01)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 184 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780385695220
• Item Weight: 153.09 grams
• Dimensions: 8.02 x 5.2 x 0.5 cm

Our lives are defined by a story of endless growth and consumption. Now a climate crisis demands that we change. Can we write new stories?

In All We Want, award-winning author Michael Harris dismantles our untenable consumer culture and delivers surprising, heartwarming alternatives. Drawing on the wisdom of philosophers, scientists, and artists, Harris uncovers three realms where humans have always found deeper meaning: the worlds of Craft, the Sublime, and Care.

Past attempts to blunt our impact on the environment have simply redirected our consumption—we bought fuel-efficient cars and canvas tote bags. We cannot, however, buy our way out of this crisis. We need, instead, compelling new stories about life's purpose.

Part meditation and part manifesto, All We Want is a blazing inquest into the destructive and unfulfilling promise of our consumer society, and a roadmap toward a more humane future.

About the Author

MICHAEL HARRIS is the bestselling author of The End of Absence, Solitude, and All We Want. A recipient of the Governor General's Literary Award, he is also a faculty member in the Literary Journalism program at the Banff Centre and the writer of the award-winning podcast "Command Line Heroes." He lives with his husband in Vancouver. www.MichaelJohnHarris.com