All We Want
Building the Life We Cannot Buy
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…
$21.00
April 1, 2025
MICHAEL HARRIS's first book, The End of Absence, won the Governor General's Literary Award for Nonfiction and was a national bestseller, and his next, Solitude, was a national bestseller and longlisted for the RBC Taylor Prize. His new book, All We Want, will be published in December 2021. His writing has appeared in numerous publications, including The Globe and Mail, The Washington Post, TIME, The Walrus, Wired and Salon, among others.
All We Want
Michael Harris