Daily Archives: August 30, 2026

Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of Peace, Justice, Ecology, and Democracy https://jamesrichardbennett.blogspot.com/2026/08/omni-climate-emergency-anthology-4.html What’s at Stake:   2020 (date of original writing) and still in 2026.   George Monbiot:   “Some of us know what we want: private sufficiency, public luxury; doughnut economics; participatory democracy and an ecological civilisation. None of these are bigger asks than those the billionaire press has made and largely achieved: the neoliberal revolution that has swept away effective governance, effective taxation of the rich, effective restraints on the power of business and oligarchs and, increasingly, effective democracy.So let’s break our own silence. Let’s stop lying to ourselves and others by pretending that small […]