Over the past 200 years our industrial activities have dangerously destabilised the rest of the Gaian system. If humanity is to correct the process of destabilisation and avoid disaster, fundamental changes are needed. In this new Briefing Roy Madron and John Jopling argue that we have no chance of achieving the necessary changes while our democracies exist to serve the Global Monetocracy which has evolved over the past three hundred years. It is engaged in the relentless pursuit of economic growth in order to sustain a global debt-money system, for the benefit of the wealthy and powerful. As a result, today's democracies are dangerously destabilising the Gaian systems on which humanity depends. Gaian Democracies would tackle the task of co-creating a global network of just and sustainable societies that could co-exist symbiotically with Gaia's systems.

Throughout the Briefing, the authors stress the systems framework on which they have based their proposals. They draw on examples such as the Mondragon Cooperatives of Basque Spain, Visa International, the Semco Corporation, the Athenian city state and the hundreds of Participative Budgets initiated by Brazilian Workers Party to show how many of the principles of Gaian democracies have been successfully applied in the real world. In short, Gaian Democracies sets out a new theory of democracy through which we can tackle the tremendous political task of co-creating a just and sustainable future for the human family.