Overview: How to Run a Planet recognizes the primary causes of our political and environmental crises: a lack of good global government, a laissez faire ideology, and a materialist worldview.

Presenting a wiser worldview - a political model harmonious with the nature of the universe - John Holman tasks humanity with creating a planetary civilization of sublime proportions, beyond capitalism and nationalism.

Verdict: In doing so, Holman illustrates a democratically elected world parliament and an economic system based on the pursuit of societal and environmental well-being rather than growth. This is essential reading for policymakers, philosophers, social activists, and anybody else interested in the big picture and global solutions.

Telling it like it is, author John Holman has written a quite profoundly wondrous new book here, and one that should be used to extract differing opinions from those who would hotly debate the subject matter - especially those that believe in the necessity of undertaking possibly radical ways for sustaining our collective planetary existence.

For as we all well know by now, sustaining our collective planetary existence requires a combination of individual actions, community involvement, and global cooperation, and although Holman’s overview could easily become a worldview, should this book be undertaken by a much wider audience, the underlying challenges we face on a daily basis truly exposes the shortcomings of rationalism and materialism that we exist within.

Having grown up with parents that also cared about such a thing, a sustainable development - which is a “development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs” - admittedly fulfills needs that are “in particular the essential needs of the world’s poor” (World Commission on Environment and Development, 1987), and yet at the same time sadly showcases humanities disability to create a planetary civilization of sublime proportions, beyond capitalism and nationalism.

I mean, sustainability, as by this definition, includes an ecological, economical, and social component. This definition is the most widely accepted one, and was actually first coined as a term “planetary sustainability” by NASA in 2014, and comes with three main objectives:

1. A world in which all people have access to abundant water, food and energy, as well as protection from severe storms and climate change impacts

2. Healthy and sustainable worldwide economic growth from renewable products and resources

3. A multi-planetary society, where the resources of the Solar System are available to the people of Earth

Thus How to Run a Planet: An Essential Guide to the Big Picture and Global Solutions, is a very important read, dutifully filled with en masse of knowledge that can hopefully guide us into achieving a social and environmental well-being for all.

About the Author - John Holman PhD is a philosopher and changemaker who holds degrees in the arts, philosophy and religious studies. He is a leading authority on Western esotericism. Alongside writing and lecturing he has worked as a change consultant on European Union projects, and is an adviser and contributor to The Galileo Commission and Democracy Without Borders. He lives in Devon, UK.

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