This is my reply to George Monbiot's excellent piece in The Guardian recently:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/25/13-crises-we-face-trump-soil-loss-global-collapse


1. Problem: Donald Trump
Solution: create an education system where critical thinking is valued. And a political system with set limits of what can be spent on campaigns and that money to come from a central fund, not wealthy backers. completely ban the media from covering elections other than in purely giving information.  And over haul the basic nature of political parties to actual reflect the wish of ordinary people. And over haul the basic nature of companies, so they are worker run and owned. better yet replace them altogether with local scale councils in which everyone has an equal say.

2. Problem: His national security adviser
Solution: take the ability to make military decisions out of the hands of such advisers or presidents or prime ministers. put it in the hands of a directly elected committee with is genuinely serving and reporting to the peoplegeneral, and that can be dismissed if they carry out actions that the majority do not agree with. for example: they wish to invade Iraq = majority dont agree = we dont invade iraq. end of.

3.  Problem: The rest of his team (Trump’s)
Solution: take the ability to make ANY decisions on any subject out of the hands of such advisers or presidents or prime ministers. put it in the hands of a directly elected committee which is genuinely serving and reporting to the people in general, and that can be dismissed if they carry out actions that the majority do not agree with. if big corporate try to rail road through some law that benefits them but damages the country in general = people see through their crap and not let them (because of 1 above, most people will be able to think critically and not be abused and lied to in education, work, and the media).

4. Problem: The transatlantic backdrop
Solution: Because folk are smarter, not lied to be media and corrupt politicians and profit obsessed corporations they would have voted to stay in the EU. and the EU itself, for the same reasons would be a large association genuinely working towards democratic cross national collaboration for the benefit of the people in the whole area.

5. Problem: Eurozone risks
Solution: in that kind of EU there would be no banking crisis or democratic deficit. take away the capitalist nature of that aspect of the EU and the crisis would be gone. OTHER problems may well arise. but lets hope we could deal with them.

6. Problem: … and their global ramifications
Solution: take away the capitalist nature of that aspect of the WORLD and the banking/profit/economic crisis would be gone. OTHER problems may well arise. but lets hope we could deal with them too!






7. Problem:Job-eating automation

Solution: continue to create automation but restructure society so that the benefits of this technology goes to all, not just a rich elite. rethink the place of profit focused work in society so that it is no longer so important. instead we focus on other types of work, that can give us meaning life. everyone gets a ‘basic wage’ so that no one is left homeless, in poverty, hungry, etc.

8. Problem: If Marine Le Pen wins
Solution: Because folk are smarter, not lied to be media and corrupt politicians and profit obsessed corporations they would note vote for such racist idiots. they would understand the real problems, and deal with them reasonably.

9. Problem: The UN security council would look like …
Solution: there would be no select group dominating the ‘security’ of the world. all would be equal. conflicts that do arise, and some still would.. could be dealt with in a calm, reasonable manner, to avoid damage and death as much as possible.

10. Problem:The Paris climate agreement trashed
Solution: Because folk are smarter, not lied to be media and corrupt politicians and profit obsessed corporations we would sort out this environment action once and for all, and soon. or as much as the planet will let us.

11.Problem: … and the effects on migration
Solution: if despite our best efforts to stop fucking up the planet there are various very serious environmental disasters, we will deal with them as best as we can. which will mean only half well, perhaps. but much much better than in current horrible perverted capitalist system can do.

12. Problem: … with just 60 harvests left
Solution: oh bugger…but again, in a system based on what is good for people and the planet we will likely deal with these physical problems much much better than capitalist system can do, which seems hell bent on destroying and poisoning soil, air, trees, water… anything in sight.


13. Problem: … an accelerating extinction crisis
Solution: Since the capitalist system also does not give a monkeys about how its destroying the feeding grounds of, ah, monkeys, or pandas, or lions, or 1000s of other animals it seems clear where we can look for the main human made cause of extinction. So, if we at last get smart, dump the capitalist system and replace it with a system based on what is good for people and the planet, including the animals… then we will likely deal with these problems much much better. Though I wouldn’t mind fans of Justin Bieber going extinct.




Incidentally this is George in our book PARECOMIC: