Alex said:

"It’s a forlorn hope that we can tackle the crisis while working within the confines of the system that created this crisis in the first place,"

I agree 100%. My analogy is that we are trying to keep our old Ford Model T running because it was such a good car in its day.

It's time for a new kind of democracy:

https://medium.com/discourse/tiered-democratic-governance-3f36a8f45660