Blessed Unrest.

Paul Hawken’s much celebrated book Blessed Unrest is subtitled ‘How the largest social movement in history is restoring grace, justice and beauty to the world.’ American authors are not much given to low-key subtitling. The movement he is describing has three-fold roots in the social justice, environmental and indigenous rights movements. It is a movement without leaders or over-arching ideologies; even without consensus. It is a movement that seeks “to bring down concentrations of power”, and has, fairly obviously, been accelerated in recent years by technologies like the Internet and cell phones.