What Then Must We Do? The Next American Revolution

by Justin Ritchie, Seth Moser-Katz, originally published by The Extraenvironmentalist  | TODAY

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"Revolutions are as common as grass in world history, if you look at the long pattern. . . Systems try to generate, and they must generate, the idea that they are inevitable and that they will last forever. Turns out, anyone who’s an historian knows, that is simply not true. Not only in our own era, but in history, systems come and go."

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With a media ecosystem focused almost entirely the corporate system, burgeoning elements of a new economy revolution escape the mainstream eye. As our political systems stagnate in the face of ecological, energy and social crises, can an alternative to capitalism develop over the next few decades? Do ongoing experiments in money, society and energy have the ability to coalesce into a broader cultural shift?

In Extraenvironmentalist #63 we talk about the growing network of institutions and businesses that are forming the new economic revolution in the United States with historian and political economist Gar Alperovitz. Gar describes the ideas in his new book, What Then Must We Do: Straight Talk About the Next American Revolution. Then we hear from two of Italy’s leading economists Stefano and Vera Zamagni about the civil society model of a market economy.