The Global Community must now direct the wealth of the world towards the building of local-to-global economic democracies in order to meet the needs for food, shelter, universal healthcare, education, and employment for all.
Truly, the world is on the threshold of a global revolution, and needs to
proceed with the non-violent approach. The Global Community needs to build an economic democracy
based firmly on the basic principle that the Earth belongs equally to
everyone as a birthright. The Earth is for all people to labor and live
on and should never be the possession of any individual, corporation,
or uncaring government, any more than the air or water, or any other
Earth natural resources. An individual, or a business should have
no more than is needed for a healthy living.
The impacts of our democracy are destroying the Earth global life-support systems.
To live in a world at peace and have conditions of basic justice and fairness in human interactions,
our democratic values must be based on the principle of equal rights to the Earth.
Territorial conflict has for millennium been the basis of war and mass killing of others.
Throughout the ages wars have been fought over land, and other Earth natural resources.
We have seen
oil conflicts in the Persian Gulf, and the Caspian Sea Basin.
We have seen
water conflicts in the Nile Basin, the Jordan, and Indus River Basins.
We have seen wars being fought
over minerals and timber in Brazil, Angola, Cambodia, Columbia, Congo, Liberia, the Philippines, and Indonesia.
The view from space shows us a global landscape in which competition over resources is the governing principle behind the use of military power.
Truly, resources have become the new political boundaries.
When people know they own the resources in their communities then people can start directing the wealth of their resources towards
the building of local-to-global economic democracies in order to meet the needs for food, shelter, universal healthcare, education, and employment for all in their community.
Global rights will help here. Global rights allow people to do what they need to do in order to be sustainable. People and communities are protected by global rights.
The universality of human rights recognizes the right of all individuals
to participate in the cultural life of their community and of other country,
to receive education and training, and to be informed. The Global
Community is aware that traditional customs and standards
could burden the sustainability of all life on Earth. They could burden
Earth society or any society forever, and holds individuals in a straitjacket.
We cannot accept that. No one can! There are choices to be made and you
must make them. Cultures can develop and can go on developing. Even religious
beliefs may evolve. We are living now, and we are able to
create these changes. We are at least as bright, most certainly brighter,
than the people who were living thousand of years ago.
As far as
the
Global Community is concerned, cultural and religious
differences cannot be a reason or an excuse or a pretext for not respecting
human rights and, most importantly, ecological rights. Quite
the contrary, all kinds of cultures may promote human rights and especially
cultural rights. They are different in their achievements, but they are
equal in dignity where they are expressions of freedom. At any time
or in any given place, men, women and children use their culture to invent
new ways of making human rights a living reality. Diversity enriches us
if it respects the dignity of each individual, and if it takes account
of human rights as a whole.
Security is a primordial human and Earth right. The Global Community has broadened the traditional focus
of the security of nations to include both the security of people as well
as that of the planet. Global security policies include:
* every person on Earth has a right to a secure
existence, and all states have an obligation to protect those rights
* prevention of conflicts and wars; identification, anticipation,
and resolving conflicts before they become armed confrontations. The Earth
Court of Justice will help here.
* military force is not a legitimate political instrument
* weapons of mass destruction are not legitimate instruments
of national defence
* eliminate all weapons of mass destruction from all
nations and have inspectors verifying progress to that effect
* all nations should sign and ratify the conventions
to eliminate nuclear, chemical and biological weapons
* the production and trade in arms should be listed as
a criminal act against humanity; this global ministry will introduce a
Convention on the curtailment of the arms trade, a provision for a mandatory
Arms Register and the prohibition of the financing or subsidy of arms exports
by governments
* the development of military capabilities is a potential
threat to the security of people and all life on Earth; the ministry will
make the demilitarization of global politics a high priority.
* anticipating and managing crises before they escalate
into armed conflicts and wars
* maintaining the integrity of the environment and global
life-support systems
* managing the environmental, economic, social, political
and military conditions that threatened the security of people and the
planet
On the Scale of Global Rights,
primordial human rights and the protection of the global life-support systems (ecological rights) are on top of the Scale. They are the
most important aspects on the Scale.
Primordial human rights are those human rights that individuals have by virtue of their very existence as human beings:
- live
- safety and security
- eat
- drink fresh water
- breath clean air and
- have shelter.
These rights
are in a separate categorie and distinct than ecological rights, the right of the greatest number of people,
economic rights, social rights, cultural rights and religious rights. Ecological and primordial
human rights are the only rights that have existed unchanged throughout the evolutionary
origin of our species. Any major change would have threatened our very existence. All
other human rights listed here are rights created by human beings and can be changed
depending of new circumstances; they are not stagnant but are rather flexible and adaptive,
and they can evolve. Ecological and primordial human rights of this generation and of future
generations are therefore much more important than any other human rights existing now
and in the future.
To determine rights requires an understanding of needs and reponsibilities and their importance. The Scale of Global Rights
is the best guidance for continuing this process. The Scale shows social
values in order of importance and so will help us understand the rights of a community. What are the universal needs of a person, family, a community?
Primordial human rights are necessarily human needs but not all human needs are primordial human rights.
Nevertheless there are very specific primordial human needs. First there are the material needs, the requisites for a dignified life and truly
the primordial human rights:
- safety and security
- eat a balance diet
- 'clean' energy
- a 'clean' and healthy environment
- drink fresh water
- breath clean air
- basic clothing and
- have shelter.
Then there are the nonmaterial needs which can evolve, and are flexible and adaptive:
- social justice
- basic health care
- communications facilities in the community
- well-rounded education
- cultural protection
- spiritual and religious acceptance and
- human and Earth rights
All families need shelter, food, language, body of
knowledge, certain skills, a source of income. Security of the home is an important aspect for any family and the global community
it belongs to. Primordial human needs raise the question of interacting universal responsibilities. In terms of parenthood,
parents must raised their children mentally and physically healthy. It
is a responsibility to do so. Which also means each local community must have an educational
system to help parents raise the child.
For instance, the existing and future uses of water are constantly challenged;
balancing supply and demand is made even harder by the amounts of pollution
found in the air, land and waters. A large part of our body is made of
water, and we cannot live without water; therefore water is a primordial
human right by our very nature. In order to avoid conflicts and wars
over drinking (fresh)water, fresh water has been categorized as a primordial
human right. Industrial pollution plays a major role in the deterioration
of nature but this time the level of pollution is above the carrying capacity
of a healthy ecosystem. Pollution also affects significantly human health and
all lifeforms on Earth. Every person needs Oxygen to live so clean air
is certainly also a primordial human right by our very nature.
Control over the amounts of greengases produced by human activities and let go into our air must be paramount to governance and management of Earth.The production of greengases involves the destruction of the Oxygen in our air and its replacement by CO2, a deadly chemical.
CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere have been measured at an altitude of about 4,000 meters on the peak of Mauna Loa mountain in Hawaii since 1958. The measurements at this location, remote from local sources of pollution, have clearly shown that atmospheric concentrations of CO2 are increasing. The mean concentration of approximately 316 parts per million by volume (ppmv) in 1958 rose to approximately 369 ppmv in 1998. The annual variation is due to CO2 uptake by growing plants. The uptake is highest in the northern hemisphere springtime. Today in 2013, the concentration is 400 ppmv. And after all the dirty tars sands oil of Alberta has been consumed, the concentration will be over 600 ppmv, i.e. the end of civilization as we know it, and the end of most lifeforms on the planet.
The Global Community has developed a global strategy to reinforce primordial human rights.
Recommendations to that effect are:
* provision of minimal standards of health, education, and housing worldwide
* reduce inequality in access to work opportunities
* care for the quality of life of the people
* all nations must ratify an agreement to form the Earth Court of Justice
* increase global cooperation between nations to deal with terrorism in a more selective, targeted way
* help the Global Community promote and implement its global civic ethic program worldwide
* allow our volunteers perform their global ethical management tasks during conflict resolution
* emphasise social responsibility of corporations in the whole cycle of their products or services
* expand coordination and global cooperation among nations, agencies, and NGOs, regarding information, early warning, apprehension,
and punishment of terrorists through the Earth Court of Justice. The Court will create an environment for transparent Justice.
* when there is massive damage done to a country that is abhorent to most countries of the world then the Earth Court of Justice will find
it justified to go after the suspected criminals wherever they may be hiding
Management of global resources, our global commons
Humanity sees the need to manage world affairs in several aspects of our lives. Today, earquakes, cyclones and other natural disasters, as well as human made global destruction and disasters, require a rapid and efficient response from the world to help those in needs. All of this can be effectively accomplished when the organizational structure of the government of each nation-state includes a Ministry of Global Peace and a Ministry of Essential Services. We can all co-operate together better this way when all people are prepared and able to do so.
Because of the limited quantities of Earth resources to be made available for this generation and the next ones, and because of environmental, climate change, and world population concerns, there is a need to manage the entire process of managing resources. And we all know that the amount of oil left in the ground in the world has already passed its peak quantity. So why waste the oil on doing things we know are nothing but a waste of energy and often use for destruction and certainly will shortened the life span of the next generations. A Ministry of Global Resources is needed to look after the management of Earth resources at all stages: exploration, production, transportation, manufacturing and distribution.
