Gaian Democracies

Schumacher Briefing No 9

Our industrial activities have dangerously destabilized the Gaian system, and if humanity is to avoid disaster, we need to make changes now. In this new Briefing Roy Madron and John Jopling argue that we have no chance of achieving the necessary changes while our democracies exist to serve the "Global Monetocracy," which is engaged in the relentless pursuit of economic growth in order to sustain a global debt-money system for the benefit of the wealthy and powerful.

Gaian Democracies shows how to create a global network of just and sustainable societies that could co-exist symbiotically with Gaia. The authors stress the systems framework on which they have based their proposals and draw on real-world examples such as the Mondragon Cooperatives of Basque Spain, Visa International, the Semco Corporation, and the hundreds of participative budgets initiated by Brazilian Workers' Party.