REAL DEMOCRACY

Reduce the influence of big money in politics

Commercial concerns must be decoupled from the political sphere to enable structural change.

Proposals for structural change (
set of policies, practices and investments)

  • Ban corporate, in particular fossil fuel, money in our politics, elections or governance.

  • Principle of subsidiarity that affirms that all political or economic decisions must be adopted by the level of government that is closest to the problem.

  • Strategic political, economic and environmental decisions must be made with the broadest and most democratic participation possible.

  • Democratize the management of public state owned enterprises.

Promote civic participation, affiliation, universalism and shared experiences as the antidote to consumerism

Become an active citizen vs consumer. Put experiences above things.

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Introduce legal frameworks to support real democracy

We need to abandon the existing dominant anthropocentric paradigm and imagine a new society that understands humans and nature as a whole. This needs to be included in a new legal framework for democratic societies.

Proposals for structural change (
set of policies, practices and investments)

Recognition in constitutions and international treaties:

    • Right to public participation in environmental decision-making.

    • Rights of nature.

    • Rights to a healthy environment for present and future generations.

    • The right to assembly and demonstration.

    • Freedom of speech and association.

    • The right to access information.

    • That humans are part of nature, and that the rest of nature has an intrinsic right to thrive.