QWhat economic growth for our societies when our human resources will be permanently exhausted, our natural resources exhausted and our climate unbreathable? As the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and our planet gets hotter and hotter, we need a paradigm shift. Invent a new economic model that preserves our ecosystems while serving social justice.
The current system, led by finance and accounting methods of the 20e century, is driven by overconsumption and the quest for significant financial returns. While they are necessary, even vital, virtuous investments in organizations working on the just transition are left behind. Cooperatives, third places where we reinvent work, sustainable mobility, organic agriculture, green energies, short circuits, protection of natural areas, local currencies…
Thousands of social and ecological innovations already exist in France, in the heart of our territories. They are supported by organizations which do not aim for enrichment. They seek to serve and, to do so, invent a new relationship to growth, the measurement of value and its (re)distribution. Their modes of governance are democratic. They place the ecological transition right at the center of their strategy.
A fair ecological transformation of the economy
All these ecological and social innovation initiatives form a fabric that creates added value for all of society and the environment. But, while they provide concrete solutions essential to resolving the vital challenges of our century, they are cruelly lacking in resources.
The financial sphere is not structured to finance the transition they are leading. Employees, entrepreneurs, elected officials, students, representatives of associations… Actors and actresses of this transformation, we unite today as a civil force, within the “Billion », to build today the world in which we want to live tomorrow.
Convinced that the cooperation we carry out on a daily basis constitutes a resource of great value for building the future we desire, we are already more than 1,500 organizational leaders, coming from all walks of life, from all origins, from all territories. of France. Together, we will raise 1 billion euros to support projects leading to a just ecological transformation of our economy.
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