A Bold Challenge to Modern Capitalism

The Bridge at the Edge of the World

• We must change the very nature of corporations so they become legally accountable to society at large, not just to themselves and their shareholders.


• We must challenge the current obsession with GDP growth and focus on growth in the areas that truly enhance human well-being: growth in good jobs, in the availability of health care, in education, in the deployment of green technologies, in the incomes of the poor, in security against illness and disability, in infrastructure, and more.


• We must challenge materialism and consumerism as the source of happiness and seek new values about quality of life, social solidarity, and connectedness to nature.


• We must transform the market through government action so that it works for the environment, rather than against it.


• We must transform democracy through deep political reforms that reassert popular control, encouraging locally strong, deliberative democracy and limiting corporate influence.


• We must forge a new environmental politics that recognizes links among environmentalism, social liberalism, human and civil rights, the fight against poverty, and other issues.