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Ben G. Price

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Ben G. Price is the author of these books: "OGDEN: A Tale for the End of Time" I suspect there is a flourishing new market for stories that contextualize universal anxiety over ecological disasters within the shared social experience of modern life. Books like Richard Powers’ "The Overstory" convey the wonders of intimacy with nature. Non-fictional nature books, like David Abram’s "The Spell of the Sensuous" revitalize the readers’ connection with the hidden magic that is discoverable by silencing our certainties and perceiving creation free of our cultural filters. "Ogden: A Tale for the End of Time" belongs on the same shelf with these and other such books of wonder. There is also a sub-genre of fantasy that I’ll call “true magic” that does more than story-telling. Novels like Hope Mirrlees’ "Lud-In-The-Mist" bring the boundaries between the every-day mundane world and the magical realm of faerie close within reach, so that the reader begins to feel and smell the fragrant winds from over yonder, “beyond the fields we know,” as Lord Dunsany use to say. Ogden: A Tale for the End of Time will have a similar effect, transporting the reader across the border between dreams and dull reality, into a world where every “thing” is aware and alive. Yet, "Ogden: A Tale for the End of Time" is unique for placing Life, expressed as Nature, in the role of judge and jury, with authority to decide which branches on the tree of life will flourish, and which will wither and drop away. And so, at the infancy of human industrialization, as the apex of primate evolution prepares to enslave Nature and all its elemental parts to the satisfaction of human desire, Nature sends the young troll, Ogden, as its proxy. Can humanity survive when Nature is the judge? ~~~ "How Wealth Rules the World: Saving Our Communities and Freedoms from the Dictatorship of Property," published by Berrett-Koehler in 2019. "HOW WEALTH RULES the World" “In this book you can discover what intrepid communities across the country have learned and why they’ve taken up the community rights strategy. The Federalists who wrote the US Constitution were counterrevolutionaries. . . They vested greater rights in property than in people and put us on the disastrous route to environmental devastation and social chaos. Correcting the counterrevolutionary agenda that allows wealth to govern our lives instead of democratically assembled communities of people will require a full-blown people’s movement. [Here is] your invitation to join that fight.” – Thom Hartmann, author and broadcast journalist “Read How Wealth Rules. . . share it, discuss it, and organize around it as if your family’s and friends’ lives depended on it—because they do.” – John Stauber, author of bestsellers including Toxic Sludge Is Good for You; Trust Us, We’re Experts; and Weapons of Mass Deception ~~~ About Ben G. Price Ben worked closely with the first community on Earth to recognize legal rights for Nature, collaborating in the drafting of this ground-breaking law and in organizing the people and their power to open a new frontier in law. In 2006, Tamaqua, a quaint borough in Pennsylvania’s anthracite coal region, challenged so-called “personhood” rights for corporate property by ratifying the first law in a non-Indigenous community with enforceable rights for ecosystems. Two years later (2008), the people of Ecuador ratified the first national constitution on Earth recognizing Nature’s rights, informed and inspired by Tamaqua’s example. Since then, Ben has assisted more than forty U.S. communities to enact laws recognizing legal rights for ecosystems. In 2010, Ben traveled to Ecuador to participate in the formation of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature (GARN). Today, the Rights of Nature Movement is a global phenomenon challenging colonial legal doctrines and striving for the emancipation of the natural world from bondage as property.