A radically just, sustainable, democratic and happy society for the 21st century is possible!

We’re a gaggle of European Union residents of 8 nationalities. Our conviction: a radically simply, sustainable, democratic and comfortable society is feasible within the twenty first century, within the European Union and on the earth. We name it the Society of Settlement. We based the CosmoPolitical Cooperative to present ourselves the means to make it a actuality, earlier than 2050, by taking motion now, at each stage, from the person to the European Union. We invite you to affix 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 comfortable society is feasible for the twenty first century. We name it the Society of Settlement. It rests on three pillars:

an unprecedented stage of social justice, equality and confidence sooner or later for all (settlement between people on the distribution of sources);

an unprecedented stage 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 selections); and

wholesome, easy and sustainable modes of consumption and manufacturing, in line with 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 world societal different to the present paradigm.

We’ve got based the CosmoPolitical Cooperative, a European Cooperative Society, to behave 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 tasks by Co-operators aimed 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 we have now sufficiently sturdy, official and unified political energy at EU stage to beat the resistance of the wealthy and highly effective, (2) social justice in 2040, so that everybody has the boldness sooner or later wanted to embark on radical transformations of their lifestyle, (3) environmental sustainability in 2050, forreasons of the easy survival of human civilisation;

We provide a really big selection of ranges of dedication: receiving a e-newsletter, taking coaching programs open to all, contributing financially to our actions, collaborating in discussions in our Group or within the selections of our Cooperative.

We all know, and settle for, that the highway to the Society of Settlement might be lengthy and tough. We’re conscious of the enormity of the duty earlier than us, of the novel nature of the transformations we’re bringing about, and of the resistance they may arouse from the wealthy and highly effective – and the media which are 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 regular’.

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

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Signed: the founding members of the CosmoPolitical Cooperative

Alexandre (Belgium)

Alioune (Italy)

AnaLi (Poland)

auda62 (France)

Charlie (Greece)

Christian (Austria)

cidadactiva (Portugal)

Fabrice (France)