22nd March - The Mist is Beginning to clear!

Although my search for a way to a brighter future for life on Earth is shrouded by the mist of continual bad news,  this week has brought some relief. 
Three things have come together to show how ingenious many of us are becoming in finding a way to challenge corporate consumption-based capitalism.  
That wonderful on-line campaigning group 38 degrees, which has overturned or made amendments to many of the government's recent legislation proposals, conducted a survey to find out why people don't vote to which I replied that people don't generally believe that their vote will make any difference.  I'm looking forward to hearing what the findings are.
Next I saw the film 'Economics of Happiness' which shows the power of the people through national governments replaced by the power of multi-national corporations. The film-makers are spreading the word that capitalism in the 21st century  is destroying human cultures and taking us headlong into the abyss.  A must-see film!
Then I read an uplifting book, written in 2011 by Henry Hemming, called 'Together' which argues that Britain is NOT broken and that small groups can achieve big things.  An increasing number of people belong to groups formed because of a common interest.  Many such groups - at the end of 2009 there were 100 Transition Towns - are challenging the status quo and looking for a new way of life. So I have three good reasons to be optimistic: 
The message that the economic/social system which is increasingly dominating the world must be scrapped is spreading
Non-party campaigning groups outside of mainstream politics are finding their collective power and using it 
More and more folk are joining together in small groups to fight causes and live different lives based on shared interests