As well as needing faith in Gaia, we now urgently need a new system of participatory government. This will be a movement for everyone, to break out of the middle-class enclave that has dominated environmentalism, to build the largest possible consensus, with people from all parties and backgrounds working together – a movement of movements.
In order to do this, a triple-track approach is needed: one of Protest, Prefiguration, and Politics. Protest to force change, prefiguration to provide vision, and politics to provide policies.
Let’s start with Protest
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