Do we live on a One Party Planet?

So just who is in charge of this planet?

So just who is in charge of this planet? Is it a small group of people with one plan? A large group of people with lots of competing plans? Does it even make sense to think of ‘control’ in these terms at all?

This short pamphlet makes the case that it not only makes sense to think in these terms, but it is essential. Indeed, anyone who believes in the potential for vastly less inequality and poverty, and a richer, more stable natural environment must do so because the few thousand people that are in control don’t share the view that anything is profoundly wrong; they subscribe to the same ideology to such a degree that they can be thought of as members of a single political party; and they would like the rest of us to leave them to it.

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What do rising sea levels in Bangladesh, the break up of public utilities in Ghana and austerity in the UK have in common?

They’re all part of the same global story. The story of one global economy that connects various economic, political, environmental and societal crises faced by communities around the world.

By asking questions of this story - how is everything connected? Who connected it and what did they connect it for? - we start to uncover the self-evident truths of the one global economy; the single set of rules that govern the whole world (rules like ‘growth at all costs’); the tiny elite group of people who wield power intentionally at the global level; and the fact that the people with the most power in the global system are those who hold on to it to promote their interests. Why not join us in #ConnectingDots?