ABSTRACT
There is mounting opposition to such a world and growing evidence that a more democratic and sustainable alternative is struggling to emerge. People and movements have the ideas, resources and political will that will make this happen and among geographers and other social scientists new and rediscovered ideas are playing a key role. Dialectical materialism (see Box 10.2) suggests how we might heal our relations with one another and the rest of nature while regulation and critical theory suggest how our responsibilities towards humanity and the biotic community might be balanced against our rights to self-determination within a new form of global democracy.
