YOUTH 2020 - The position of young people in Slovenia

318 Figure 9.11: Environmental concern – I minimise my consumption/purchases to only what I really need because of environmental problems. x Did you vote – in the last election of members of the National Assembly (3 August 2018)? 90% 80% 60% 40% 30% 10% 20% 70% 50% Strongly disagree. I did not have voting rights at the time. I was considering voting, but in the end I did not vote. I usually vote, but I did not vote in those elections. I voted. 4.0 7.0 10.9 30.4 35.9 19.8 10.9 25.3 48.1 13.6 16.0 31.0 35.4 10.6 15.6 30.9 38.9 10.9 Disagree. Neither disagree nor agree. Agree. Strongly agree. 2.1 0% 100% 3.0 Source: Mladina 2020. Based on the data presented, it could be said that Slovenian young peo- ple show linear rather than multidimensional patterns of political be- haviour. This cannot be attributed to the “backwardness” of the Sloveni- an political sphere or to the obsolescence of young people’s political imagination. Rather, it reflects that consumer activismand environmen- tally responsible consumerism have become conventional behaviours of young people, who, through these practices, express themselves, while also building a new image of the (young) good citizen that, to a much greater extent, displays patterns of active citizenship (see Dalton, 2009). More voters are turning to consumer activism and environmentally responsible consumerism.