Politics Costs Money

And we don't have it. In the 1970s, the government started to fund groups to provide alternative analysis. They don't do that anymore. Because alternative analysis is dangerous.

From the 1950s to today, the trade unions are a huge source of funding for lefty initiatives. However, under decades of neo-liberal counterattacks, and derided by environmentalists as a selfish interest group with a vested interest in our eco-destroying system of production and consumption, they've shrivelled.

Meanwhile, corporations use OUR money to pay full-time public relations teams and full-time lobbyists to influence the media, the wider society and the politicians who write the rules. And some of us are convinced that small groups of isolated individuals, or environmental organizations relying on uncertain individual donations from a society marked by increasing economic inequality, is enough to fight back with.