The Age of Consent. A Maifesto For A New World Order. George Monbiot
Table of Contents
PROLOGUE Some Repulsive Proposals
CHAPTER 1 The Mutation
CHAPTER 2 The Least-Worst System An Equivocal Case for Democracy
CHAPTER 3 A Global Democratic Revolution The Case Against Hopeless Realism
CHAPTER 4 We the Peoples Building a World Parliament
CHAPTER 5 Something Snaps An International Clearing Union
CHAPTER 6 The Levelling A Fair Trade Organization
CHAPTER 7 The Contingency of Power
References
Acknowledgements
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The World Trade Organization appears, at first sight, to be more democratic: every member nation has one vote. In reality, its principal decisions have been made during the ‘Green Room’ negotiations, which are convened and controlled by the European Union, the United States, Canada and Japan.6 Developing nations can enter these talks only at their behest, and even then they are threatened if they offend the interests of the major powers. The result is that, despite their promises to the contrary, the nations and corporations of the rich world have been able to devise ever more elaborate trade protections, while the nations of the poor world have been forced to open their economies.
If you consider this distribution of power acceptable, that is your choice, but please do not call yourself a democrat. If you consider yourself a democrat, you must surely acknowledge the need for radical change.
