The Path to a Sustainable Civilisation shows that we have unwittingly fallen into an
existential crisis of our own making. We have allowed large corporations the military and
other vested interests to capture governments and influence public opinion excessively. We have
created a god called 'the market' and allowed our most important decisions to be made by this
imaginary entity which is in fact a human system controlled by vested interests. The result
has been the exploitation of our life support system our planet and most of its inhabitants
to the point of collapse.This book argues that the way out of our black hole is to build social
movements to apply overwhelming pressure on government and big business weaken the power of
vested interests and strengthen democratic decision-making. This must be done simultaneously
with action on the specific issues of climate energy natural resources and social justice in
order to transition to a truly sustainable civilisation.
