Actions for Progressive Citizens
We believe that national and global Citizens must now fully utilise the tools provided to them by the Digital revolution to help drive fundamental behavioural change, both among themselves and with businesses, governments and institutions. The Web provides the new Barricades. Democracy is increasingly available and accessible at the touch of a finger. The difference between this Renaissance and previous incarnations, is that Universal Suffrage is finally arriving: not just via the Ballot Box but out there, in the global, Digital space.
We, the Citizens, now have the ability to form a super-power of global Public Opinion.
- Shift towards consumption habits based on Needs, not Wants
- Shift towards a refusal to buy products which simply fail to meet globally-accepted environmental protocols or standards (and fit within the wider, political visions and accepted norms)
- Shift towards investment behaviours that demand better ethical and environmental standards from businesses
- Shift towards an acceptance that punitive fiscal measures will be the inevitable consequence of purchasing products that fail to meet acceptable environmental standards
- Shift towards pension and other investments in funds that reach minimum requirements on environmental issues and have a clear and open ethical policy; shift towards a determination to hold ‘non ethical/non environmental’ investors to account
- Shift towards demanding seats in a People’s Parliament (the elected Upper Chamber) – with specific representation on ethical and environmental issues
- Shifts towards the use of Social Networks as “populist NGOs” – ensuring levels of original and dynamic thought
