George Monbiot

We have to grab their attention back.

to the needs of the majority.

It's the billions versus the billionaires.

And we are the billions.

We massively outnumber them, yet somehow they're the ones who come to dominate our political systems.

That's not going to change unless we get politically active, unless we mobilize, unless we demand that political parties change.

meet our needs.

And if they don't, we switch our allegiance to the political parties that will.

It's the only thing that works.

It's not easy and it's not quick, but you've just got to mobilise, mobilise and mobilise.

Do you feel trapped in a broken economic model, a model that's trashing the living world and threatens the lives of our descendants, a model that excludes billions of people while making a handful unimaginably rich, that sorts us into winners and losers and then blames the losers for their misfortune?

Welcome to neoliberalism,

the zombie doctrine that never seems to die, however comprehensively it is discredited.

Now, you might have imagined that the financial crisis of 2008 would have led to the collapse of neoliberalism.

After all, it exposed its central features, which were deregulating business and finance, tearing down public protections, throwing us into extreme competition with each other, as, well, just a little bit flawed.

And intellectually, it did collapse.

But still, it dominates our lives.

Why?

Well, I believe the answer is that we have not yet produced a new story with which to replace it.

Stories are the means by which we navigate the world.