THE AGE OF CONSENT: A Manifesto For a New World Order

George Monbiot asks and answers the key questions of our time: what would global democracy look like? And how could we make it happen, against the resistance of the world's most powerful governments? The world is run not by its people but by a handful of self-appointed men in the rich nations. They make the decisions on which everyone else depends: concerning war, peace, debt, development and the balance of trade. The rest of us have no means of holding them to account. While these men might have a national democratic mandate, on the global level their rule is unchallengeable.