The U.S. political economy is failing across a broad front—environmentally, socially, economically, and politically. Deep, systemic change is needed to transition to a new economy, one where the acknowledged priority is to sustain human and natural communities. Policies are available to effect this transformation and to temper economic growth and consumerism while simul-taneously improving social well-being and quality of life, but a new politics involving a coalescing of progressive communities is needed to realize these policies.
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