07-31-2021, 01:26 PM
(This post was last modified: 07-31-2021, 01:35 PM by Eric the Green.)
Description: In this interview George Monbiot explains some of the ideas behind his new book, Out of the Wreckage: A New Politics for an Age of Crisis. He argues that the "society-crushing system of neoliberalism has destroyed our natural capacity for altruism", and that we must fight against it to create "a politics of belonging that revives community and returns land to the people as a source of common wealth". We need meaningful participatory democracy, finer-grain involvement in politics, and power given back to people so that wealth isn't continually distributed to the rich.
What occurs to me is that although we need to make some systemic and policy changes in our current 4T so that we have a chance for a sustainable planet and a more just society in the future, the more fundamental changes such as land distribution and local community economics may be developed during the next Awakening, which will also be the peak and fulfillment of the cycle of revolution that began in the 1960s, as charted by the Uranus-Pluto conjunction and opposition cycle of revolution (conjunction 1966, opposition circa 2047). I have called this the Green Revolution (the more commonly-known meaning of that term also began simultaneously), because as Monbiot says we need, it places ecology and protection of our planet at the center of politics and policy.