Food and fuel prices are rising:
On inequality, I tend to side with Piketty.
On disenfranchisement, the effect I'm talking about isn't simply the "right to vote". It's the loss of influence over social policy that happens whenever the control of the levers of policy pass to corporations or centralized authoritarian political organizations. Perhaps "disempowerment" would be a better word - people can be disempowered even with the right to vote, as is happening in the US today. It's also happening in some of Europe, along with most of Asia and the Middle East. This is hard to quantify, but it's showing up everywhere, as far as I can tell.
Regarding creeping authoritarianism, I see this happening even in the USA. I'm surprised that someone who posts on a progressive blog wouldn't have noticed.
The data on the ecological points is easily available, if you care to look.
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