A radically simply, sustainable, democratic and glad society for the twenty first century is feasible!

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We’re a gaggle of European Union residents of 8 nationalities. Our conviction: a radically simply, sustainable, democratic and glad society is feasible within the 21^st century, within the European Union and on the planet. We name it the Society of Settlement. We based the CosmoPolitical Cooperative to provide ourselves the means to make it a actuality, earlier than 2050, by taking motion now, at each degree, from the person to the European Union. We invite you to hitch us.

Such as you, we’re conscious of the rising variety of interlinked crises (environmental, climatic, social, democratic) and wars, the rise of brutality and excessive right-wing concepts. Typically we really feel scared and discouraged. However we do not give in to it. Quite the opposite, we’re satisfied {that a} radically simply, sustainable, democratic and glad society is feasible for the 21^st century. We name it the Society of Settlement. It rests on three pillars:

an unprecedented degree of social justice, equality and confidence sooner or later for all (settlement between people on the distribution of assets);
an unprecedented degree of democracy in all public establishments and personal organisations, in any respect ranges, from the smallest firm or affiliation to the European Union (settlement between people on choices); and
wholesome, easy and sustainable modes of consumption and manufacturing, in response to the motto “Reside merely, so that everybody can merely dwell“, i.e. environmental sustainability (settlement between people and the legal guidelines governing the geo-biosphere on which we rely), with the prospect of sustaining human civilisation indefinitely.

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The Society of Settlement is a radically new social contract and a international societal different to the present paradigm.

We now have based the CosmoPolitical Cooperative, a European Cooperative Society, to act collectively to make this imaginative and prescient of the long run a actuality, in 2050 or sooner:

Counting on our top-level IT platform, we’re working in the direction of the Society of Settlement within the following methods: (1) we’re supporting concrete initiatives by Co-operators geared toward environmental or social sustainability, (2) we’re creating sustainable enterprise prototypes, (3) we’re initiating and taking part in sustainability dialogues within the office, and (4) we’re defining and implementing public insurance policies in any respect ranges (from the commune to the European Union);
We’re following a three-stage technique to attain the Society of Settlement: (1) pan-European democracy in 2030, in order that now we have sufficiently sturdy, reliable and unified political energy at EU degree to beat the resistance of the wealthy and highly effective, (2) social justice in 2040, so that everybody has the arrogance sooner or later wanted to embark on radical transformations of their lifestyle, (3) environmental sustainability in 2050, forreasons of the straightforward survival of human civilisation;
We provide a really big selection of ranges of dedication: receiving a publication, taking coaching programs open to all, contributing financially to our actions, collaborating in discussions in our Group or within the choices of our Cooperative.

We all know, and settle for, that the street to the Society of Settlement can be lengthy and troublesome. We’re conscious of the enormity of the duty earlier than us, of the unconventional nature of the transformations we’re bringing about, and of the resistance they are going to arouse from the wealthy and highly effective – and the media which might be subservient to them. However we additionally know that the time has come for us to behave, and that the one completely unrealistic choice is to proceed our society’s mad race in the direction of the abyss, in a lethal ‘enterprise as typical’.

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We’re calling on everybody who shares our hopes, our ambition and our want to take concrete motion collectively to hitch us. You are very welcome!

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Signed: the founding members of the CosmoPolitical Cooperative