The Last Myth

""If you want to know what’s really happening in the reality gap between our culture and our politics, and how we can refocus our efforts on real problems rather than just on fears, The Last Myth lays it out in brilliant detail. A must-read book!”
-Thom Hartmann, Bestselling author and international radio and TV show host

“The Last Myth is an important and moving analysis of the apocalyptic impulse that impels this culture toward its destructive ends. It is an even more important and moving exploration of what we can and must do about it.”
-Derrick Jensen, Author of Endgame

“The ability to distinguish between genuine perils—like climate change—and less fearsome ones is as key a skill as there can be at this tough moment, and this book has some truly interesting thoughts about how to do it.”
-Bill McKibben, Author of Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet

“The Last Myth is a book of ideas born out of this moment in time. Rapture. Rupture. Climate change. Change of heart. It is in our nature to live against the edge of apocalypse. Mathew Barrett Gross and Mel Gilles show us in intelligent and provocative prose that the gift of presence is all we have. This book is one that should be brought to the dinner table for lively and transformative conversation with family and friends. At a time when so much separates us ideologically, these ideas can unite us in our understanding that the only end of the world we really need to fear is the end of our imagination.”
-Terry Tempest Williams, Author of When Women Were Birds and The Open Space of Democracy