ABSTRACT
In a context of flawed, elitist democracy, where a political–economic caste runs the planetary resources in a non-balanced way and works to implement individualistic, non-egalitarian policies and societies, we are dealing day to day with a dystopian global ecological catastrophe. At best our representative democracy procedures allow us to consent, or not, to policies that have been determined by political parties, thereby facilitating the hegemony of a political-economic oligarchy, hindering social justice and the balance and integrity of the world’s ecological systems. To block anti-democratic policies that are detrimental to the common good as well as to the persistence and equilibria of planetary biodiversity, a ‘utopian’ direct democratic revolution is urgently needed to empower the people, based on the principles of sortition and rotation in office, and to impede the ongoing res publica takeover by influential minorities with their sinister interests.
