An excerpt from David Orr’s new edited collection Democracy in a Hotter Time was reprinted in Common Dreams as “The Promise of Democracy 4.0.” Read a snippet below:
The “Great Work” of the rising generation is to help build an inclusive movement that unites all those who prefer to drink clean water, breathe clean air, live in a stable climate, work in a fair and sustainable economy, and believe that they should have a say in creating a common future powered by sunlight. That movement will have many parts but each is about “who gets what, when, and how” which is to say it is fundamentally political. It is too soon to call democracy 4.0 inevitable, but despite the odds, there are days when it feels like it, even when time is so very short.
