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Ordinary citizens the world over have long paid the price for the swashbuckling behavior of the corporate and political elite. We've seen the reigning establishment widen the gap between rich and poor, champion endless growth on a finite planet, wreak havoc on developing nations, and ravage ecosystems in a mad race for natural resources. Now, as demonstrators worldwide demand change, Occupy World Street offers a sweeping vision of how to reform our global economic and political structures, break away from empire, and build a world of self-determining sovereign states that respect the need for ecological sustainability and uphold human rights. In this refreshingly detailed plan, Ross Jackson shows how a handful of small nations could take on a leadership role; create new alliances, new governance, and new global institutions; and, in cooperation with grassroots activists, pave the way for other nations to follow suit.

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Occupy World Street is a masterpiece which deserves to get wide circulation and commitment by world leaders. --Maurice Strong, Secretary-General of the UN Earth Summit, Rio 1992

Ross Jackson's reform proposals for our global institutions are more than astonishing-they are mind-blowing-pure creative genius. Let's do it! Clinton Callahan, author of Directing The Power of Conscious Feelings

ForeWord Reviews - Jackson's Occupy World Street is a multilayered treatise that defines and dismantles the global issues putting us at risk. He writes expertly on humankind's relentless rate of consumption that far exceeds Nature's ability to replenish. He crafts a devastating indictment of the United States as a declining democracy that's trending toward a corporatocracy and motivated by elitist self-interest and indifferent to the dangers [of an economic system that] is driving our planet to ruin. He is ultra-precise in his presentation of our flawed and exploitive economic structure.Ultimately though, the book is a call for radical revolution of the current worldview and the formation of a new civilization that Jackson terms the Gaian world order. This emergent worldview is based on ecological sustainability; universal human values; egalitarianism; and ecological economics, which derives from the laws of physics and biology and recognizes that the economic system is embedded in an ecosystem [that] is finite. Jackson details how to implement a Gaian world order that promotes global cooperative governance. His ideas are systematic, inspiring, and optimistic. For some, Jackson's notions may seem impractical, even unattainable. Yet, every revolution begins with an idea, and Jackson's book deserves widespread attention.

Ross Jackson presents us with an extraordinary global plan to tackle the multiple crises of our times-awesome in conception, sensitive in detail, and realistic enough to succeed. --Richard Register, author of Ecocities-Rebuilding Cities in Balance with Nature

Ross Jackson presents us with an extraordinary global plan to tackle the multiple crises of our times-awesome in conception, sensitive in detail, and realistic enough to succeed. --Richard Register, author of Ecocities-Rebuilding Cities in Balance with Nature

Publishers Weekly- Jackson, chairman of the Danish-based foundation Gaia Trust and co-editor of Gaian Economics: Living Well Within Planetary Limits, provides a comprehensive and lucidly written history of neoliberal economics and its effects, tracing the inequalities inherent in neoliberal economic planning. Neoliberalism, as Jackson illustrates, isn't an inevitable historical development, but rather an artificial construct created by people with a self-serving strategy that neglects the rest of humanity. Jackson presents the fundamental flaws in modern economics, locates the turning point in regulation and economic behavior, and then shows how and why things have devolved to their current state through the actions of the IMF and WTO. He traces a new, emergent worldview, proposing a solution in the form of a Gaian economic system, in which smaller, decentralized, diverse communities with a degree of local democracy form the proposed utopia, in contrast to the branded neoliberal free market of corporate dreams. A return to a simpler, more satisfying, and sustainable lifestyle is both necessary and inevitable, Jackson argues. The book is a how-to, get serious about survival guide, laying out a global governance structure and providing us with several strategies to try to get there. Hopefully, Jackson's ideas won't fall on deaf ears. Ross Jackson has written the definitive analysis of why the current system cannot reform itself and why a completely new system must be born. --Jim Garrison, Chairman and President, State of the World Forum Ross Jackson, who is one of the world's wise elders, describes a range of new global institutions that can give birth to a world of sustainable prosperity. --Duane Elgin, author of The Living Universe Jackson's initiative has the potential to unite hundreds of NGOs and millions of ordinary citizens in the streets behind a single simple proposal (that could change the current dysfunctional game.) --Hazel Henderson, author of Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy Ross Jackson offers practical solutions to the course correction so sorely needed today. --John Renesch, author of Getting to the Better Future Occupy World Street is a monumental and inspirational call to action-and a long-awaited blueprint for how the actions should be implemented. --John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hitman Occupy World Street is a masterpiece which deserves to get wide circulation and commitment by world leaders. --Maurice Strong, Secretary-General of the UN Earth Summit, Rio 1992 Many writers have inventoried the unfolding disasters that threaten the human future. Ross Jackson is one of the very few who goes on to spell out a visionary, yet practical, program of sufficient ambition to achieve a positive future. Best of all, he draws on his distinctive experience and credentials as a global currency trader to outline sound proposals for redesigning the badly flawed systems of global trade and finance that currently drive the world toward economic, social, and environmental collapse. This is a truly important book. --David Korten, co-founder of YES! Magazine, author of Agenda for a New Economy Ross Jackson presents us with an extraordinary global plan to tackle the multiple crises of our times-awesome in conception, sensitive in detail, and realistic enough to succeed. --Richard Register, author of Ecocities-Rebuilding Cities in Balance with Nature Ross Jackson's reform proposals for our global institutions are more than astonishing-they are mind-blowing-pure creative genius. Let's do it! --Clinton Callahan, author of Directing The Power of Conscious Feelings A brilliantly detailed template for how to materialize enlightened global society. --Llyn Roberts, author of Shapeshifting into Higher Consciousness Occupy World Street is a profound and urgently needed roadmap for the future of human civilization --Will Keepin, author of Divine Duality Amazing! Ross Jackson's proposal for post-collapse strategy is the first plausible, constructive scenario I have seen. --Dennis Meadows, co-author, The Limits to Growth

Many writers have inventoried the unfolding disasters that threaten the human future. Ross Jackson is one of the very few who goes on to spell out a visionary, yet practical, program of sufficient ambition to achieve a positive future. Best of all, he draws on his distinctive experience and credentials as a global currency trader to outline sound proposals for redesigning the badly flawed systems of global trade and finance that currently drive the world toward economic, social, and environmental collapse. This is a truly important book. --David Korten, co-founder of YES! Magazine , author of Agenda for a New Economy <br><br>

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Ross Jackson, an expert in international finance and operations research, has long been an innovative leader in both the business and NGO worlds. He is chairman of Gaia Trust, a Danish-based foundation that supports the Global Ecovillage Network and Gaia Education, as well as hundreds of sustainability projects in forty countries. He is also director and owner of Urtekram, Scandinavia's largest wholesale organic-food company, and former chairman of Gaiacorp, foreign-exchange consultants and hedge fund managers. Jackson is the coeditor of When No Means Yes: Danish Visions of a Different Europe and Gaian Economics: Living Well Within Planetary Limits and author of And We ARE Doing It: Building an Ecovillage Future, among other books. He lives in Denmark.

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