“Yes, if enough of us want it and are prepared to work together to make it happen.” As Robb Smith says. In advanced economies of the twentieth century, there were two changes of story and major economic transformations. So, as George Monbiot stated earlier, changing the economic system is possible! Both changes required a new narrative and new alliances as well as capitalizing on global events. 

“A powerful new movement needs to be constructed to promote this narrative. This needs to be made up of a series of interlocking networks operating at different geographical scales and involving different constituencies. These constituencies should include business, civil society, academia and think tanks, faith groups, media, new economy practitioners and the arts. In each of these areas, the networks need to involve those that know things are wrong and are prepared to act to change the system.

“The goal of this new movement will be to shift values and to create sufficient pressure so that politicians start taking up and promoting this narrative at all levels from the local to the global. This in turn will create the conditions for new national and international agreements to make this vision a reality. 

“So far, at least, we have not been able to move beyond the binaries of the old stories we’ve told in the past – of nations and their enemies and of interest groups against other interest groups in a zero-sum economic struggle. But a possible new narrative is emerging from the global economic myth – a story of global sustainability, which recognizes the interconnection of all human beings and the worth of individuals, including individual species. This is a third way of seeing, which takes into account both the part and the whole and offers solutions beyond winners and losers.

 “Such a story, now in its infancy, would move from the values of economic growth to those of global well-being (which includes growth, but not as the supreme value). And it would make visible the web of life in which we are all interconnected.