'All Together Now '- George Monbiot

• Community will be that place from which humanity will be best placed to address and mount a defence against climate change. Here, George Monbiot discusses the value and importance of community.

  

  George Monbiot.

Without community, politics is dead. But communities have been scattered like dust in the wind. At work, at home, both practically and imaginatively, we are atomised.

Politics, as a result, is experienced by many people as an external force, dull and irrelevant at best, oppressive and frightening at worst. It is handed down from above rather than developed from below. 

There are exceptions – the Sanders and Corbyn campaigns for example – but even they seemed shallowly rooted by comparison to the deep foundations of solidarity that movements grew from in the past, and may disperse as quickly as they gather.

It is in the powder of shattered communities that anti-politics swirls, raising towering dust devils of demagoguery and extremism. These tornadoes threaten to tear down whatever social structures still stand.

Read this week’s article by Guardian columnist, George Monbiot - “All Together Now.”