I really appreciate the way Murray Dobbins observes and analyses what is happening in Canada.
He reveals how the neo-liberal market ideologies have diminished our democracy through corporate funded think tanks. We have had " four decades of systematic assaults on the liberal/social democratic state". This began with a series of complaints of an “excess of democracy”.
Now we live in a time of "democratic deficit" and "a decline and erosion of democracy that should be the most important focus of critics and citizens alike".
A major study sponsored by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Centre reports that this erosion of democracy "has put western civilization on a track to irreversible collapse. The study focused on population, climate, water, agriculture and energy as the interrelated factors that determine the collapse or survival of civilizations going back 5000 years."
You can find many more on Dobbins blog here: Murray Dobbins' Blog
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