Volume 13 Issue 5 January 2015
Theme for this month
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Global Community 30th Anniversary (1985-2015) and achievements
Table of Contents
I. Introduction 
II. Global Community achievements
- Global Dialogue
- Newsletters
- Global Parliament
- Global Community days of celebration and remembering throughout the year
- History of Global Parliament
- Global Constitution
- Global Rights
- Global Law
- Global Justice Network
- The Judiciary
- Global Ministries
- Global Community ethics
- Corporate citizen global ethics
- Peace Movement worldwide
- What Global Community stands for
- Global Community essential services
- Moratorium on world population
- Worldwide disarmament and security
- Global Community is the new Faith,
and the Religion of the 3rd millennium
- Global Protection Agency (GPA)
- Protection of the global life-support systems
- Earth biodiversity zone
III. References
Introduction
Welcome to Global Community 30th Anniversary (1985-2015) and achievements. This is our Anniversary, you the reader, the researcher, the writer, the doer, the participant in a worthy cause. This is our Day! Our Year! Our place, Earth! Our People, all Life on our planet! This is the time to say thank you all of you!
Over the past thirty years we have had countless discussions to find new ways, new solutions to global problems, and creating a new Vision for us all and the coming generations. Together we made a difference in the world. If humanity, all life on Earth was a ship, then we are its compass and stars to navigate toward a better future. Global Community has offered the world guidelines, politics and ethics for human behaviors so needed for Life's survival on our planet.
Global Community has proposed ethics to live by for life's survival on our planet.
Humanity urgently wants social and ecological reforms, as well as a spiritual renewal to add trust, meaning, standards and practical guidelines to this new quest for survival. Global citizens
want a spiritual home to do good and avoid evil in all its forms.
Global Community ethic provides no direct solution for all the extensive problems of humanity. The ethic is giving humanity the moral foundation for a better individual and community. Global Community has offered a new global order with a vision of Hope and Love away from despair and social chaos.
Global Community ethics has offered fundamental moral behaviors and irrevocable standards.
You need not be religious to make this vision yours. This vision is for all human beings regardless of their social origin, language, culture, sex, skin color or religion.
Global Community vision has created new hopes, standards, ideals and goals for everyone to embrace freely, and live a life without fear.
Global Community faith is about realizing this new global order will be better, safer, and more realistic after replacing the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights 
by the Scale of Global Rights 
.
To determine rights requires an understanding of needs and reponsibilities and their importance. The Scale shows social values in order of importance and so will help us understand clearly the rights of a community and its citizens. So now Global Community ethics includes a process based on the Scale of Global Rights. Global citizens have a binding responsibility for the welfare of all humanity and care for all life on Earth. Global Community ethical grounds are practical, real, and applicable for all women and men of good will, religious and non-religious.
Wherever there are people there will be conflicts, and ethics can help to resolve conflicts. Global Community has proposed that such conflicts be resolved without violence and within a framework of justice. People must commit themselves to the most nonviolent, peaceful solutions possible. This is the path to global peace 
.
Over the past thousands of years to this day, morality in society made its way into our ways of doing business. So the set of behaviors that constitute Global Community ethic for a business evolved largely because they provided possible survival benefits to increase evolutionary success. Consequently, Peoples have evolved socially to express emotions, such as feelings of empathy or guilt, in response to these moral behaviors. Humans have developed truly moral, altruistic instincts. When looking across cultures of geo-cultural areas and across millennia, certain virtues have prevailed in all cultures, the major ones include wisdom, knowledge, courage, justice, love, truth, empathy, kindness, and social intelligence. These virtues were not always incorporated into the ways of doing business because the 1% business world became corrupted, greedy, no longer in line with humanity's survival on the planet, and more interested in keeping most of the wealth, resources and power
for themselves keeping the remaining 99% of the world population in poverty and powerless to help themselves.
But today we have incorporated these virtues and proper behaviors into corporate citizen global ethics 
.
Moral values can be identified across cultures, even if we do not accept a global understanding of principles and values including integrity, trustworthiness, benevolence, justice, and fairness. These values can be resources for finding common ground between believers and nonbelievers, and for conflicts needing of ethics to resolve their problems.
Global Community ethics for a business are about how we treat others and a commitment to respect every person humanely and with dignity. For this process to work, global citizens have learned to forgive, be patient and compassionate, promote acceptance, open theirs hearts to one another, and practice a culture of solidarity and cooperation. Let go narrow differences between us all for the greater good of humanity and future generations.
Morality can be derived from a standard that global citizens believe should be universal such as the Scale of Global Rights and from Global Community ethic for a business which include all lifeforms.
Global Community ethic for a business has aimed to identify principles of right action that may be used to guide people in their lives. These principles can be used to decide whether particular courses of action, or particular types of action, are right or wrong. Ethics have emphasized respect for persons, and held that there are certain actions that should never be done.
How can we be sure that the corporate citizen global ethics we have proposed here are truly what is needed for humanity's survival?
In society, the proper course of action is one that maximizes the greatest happiness of the greatest number which gives us a measure of right and wrong. What matters is the combined positive effect of everyone and not only of any one person and "not only of the 1% of the population in control of most of the wealth and power".
Over the past decades, Global Community has organized a Global Dialogue every day of every year to probe the world about what may be the best vision to follow for humanity's survival this century.
Results obtained have shown clearly that a significant part of the world population has approved a global ethic with the Scale of Global Rights as being the proper guide for this generation and next ones this century.
Developing ethics that would save humanity from extinction will encounter numerous criticisms from individuals whose basic human rights will be violated. But that is to be expected! And there is no other way! Global Community has researched and developed the Scale of Global Rights
to continue this process. On the Scale of Global Rights, primordial human rights and the protection of the global life-support systems and ecological rights are on top of the Scale. They are the most important aspects on the Scale. Applying the Scale into our ways of life will require sacrifices from people whose human rights will be violated because social values have different degrees of importance on the Scale. But this process is necessary because the 1% of the world population has already violated the basic human rights of most people on Earth and brought humanity and all life on Earth close to extinction.
Now Global Community has claimed that all lifeforms are important and must be included as part of global ethics. It is not just about 'humanity survival' but about 'all lifeforms survival' we are fighting for.
This is morally right for humanity's survival because each of us depends on the well-being
of the whole, and so global citizens have respect for the community of living
beings, for people, other lifeforms, and plants, and for the preservation
of Earth, the air, water and soil.
Professions are expected to develop up-to-date codes of ethics with specific guidelines in line with the Scale of Global Rights.
Corporate citizen global ethics should be consistent with the requirements of morality governing society. If improving
survival of all life on our planet
is given a moral priority in society,
it must also be a moral priority to the corporate citizen, and it may be justifiable to contravene other moral demands in order to meet this goal. Because there are different moral codes that apply to different sections of society and differences in codes between societies, problems will arise when the Scale of Global Rights is applied as a basis of global ethics. The Scale must be given a moral priority.
So rights lower on the Scale may be affected negatively.
Global citizens may be asked to make sacrifices concerning human rights categorized as less important on the Scale of Global Rights. This would happen only to give the greater good a moral priority and success.
Everytime you participate in the Global Dialogue you help improve humanity and all life's survival on out planet. We all make a difference in the world! I know so! Thank you for participating!
Your names, your papers, your articles, your recommendations, your comments, and all of our work done so far was included here in the Proceedings of each Global Dialogue, and in the Global Files folder
.
Each Dialogue Overview includes a listing of all those who sent their work that year. For instance, the authors of research papers and articles on global issues for Global Dialogue 2014 are all listed here with their work
.
Newsletters section shows the accumulation of the hard thinking that was needed to achieve significant changes toward humanity's better and safer future. Newsletters published since 1985 can be read again by clicking on the links.
Thirty years ago, on October 6, 1985, the Global Community organization was created along with Global Community WebNet. I remember having accomplished my first 'soft activism' in my city, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It was such a memorable day for me I actually stood up for a worthy cause: humanity, all life on Earth, and the protection of the global life-support systems. Being a scientist I extended my principles to include standing up for them in public. My very first activism was at City Hall on Sunday, October 6, 1985. I stood up in front of City Hall that day. I was born again that day! Standing up for what I believed in very strongly! I produced a brochure explaining everything I stood up for. Those who know me can easily imagine how meticulously long the brochure may have been.
Then, on October 29, I went to the University of Calgary campus and distributed the brochure to anyone I met. I also posted the brochure on bulletin boards. Several other public places got my message. I was very proud of having done it. My first very intense exploration of my own capability of reaching out to others and standing up for workable sound solutions to global problems. That day on October 6, for the very first time, the expression 'Global Community' was used in the world. People were using the expression 'international community' but no one had ever used 'Global Community'. So I defined what it meant for the years to come and included its definition on my October 6 brochure. A more up to date definition is shown here on the following image.
From there on I produced countless brochures and ivestigative reports; organized public seminars; and I was invited to give talks in schools. There was so much interest in my teaching that I decided to research and develop a course on environmental auditing and assessment of properties. A very long course indeed, eight months long, covering all aspects. I taught the course in a special area of the University of Calgary Library. Although it has cost me plenty, my course was for free, no fees to take it. It was so successful that the federal government of Canada decided to 'buy' my course package. Very little money! Then a year later, it was used by the government to offer a special training with the same objectives at the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT). The industry was pleased of such initiative.
For the first time ever there was a course on the environmental auditing and assessment of properties, land assessment, pollution evaluation, remediation and restoration of building and land, and the protection of the environment. And a year later, the Univeristy of Calgary started its own program also covering all environmental aspects. This experience taught me that if I persevere in standing up for what I strongly believe is right I will enventually succeed.
Again back in 1985, I have researched and developed several new concepts no one had ever thought about. Of course the most important expression was 'Global Community'. As usual, being a scientist, I gave it a long and technical definition. Later on in the 1990s, after having met a marvelous woman whom I married, Virginie, we gave the definition a more popular and easy to grasp meaning. Actually Virginie had a lot to do with this new version. Virginie and I had countless brain-storming exercises in the Rocky Mountains. From there on many important aspects of Global Community were established for the decades to follow.
Virginie passed away April 28, 2000. 
Thirty years ago the Global Community organization was created. Today the world is seeing the amazing accomplishments of Global Community.
It was then within the 1990s that I started several businesses one of them being a federally incorporated business. Global Community WebNet became Global Community WebNet Ltd. which is now the only federally incorporated business I have kept alive over the years. All of them were offering services related to environmental auditing and assessment of properties, and decommissioning. They were:
- Property Environmental Services Ltd.
- Property Environmental Consultants Inc.
- Property Sustainable Development Services
- Property Inspection, Audit and Decommissioning Services Inc.
- Global Community WebNet
Virginie, some friends, and I also created and registered a society:
The Society for World Sustainable Development
One of the very powerful tools to communicate our ideas and having everyone to participate in the discussions has been the Global Dialogue.
The idea of creating global dialogues was first brought forward in a report on global changes published in 1990 by Germain Dufour. The report contained 450 policies (workable sound solutions) on
sustainable development, and was presented to the United Nations, the Government of Canada, the provincial government of Alberta and several non-profit organizations and scientists.
There was a need at the time for helping humanity back onto the path of survival this millennium. There is still a need for such help and most likely will continue to be so forever. Global dialogues are the
source of new ideas and finding new ways for our survival and taking along with us other lifeforms on the planet.
Today, the people of the Earth Community, Global Community, are using global dialogues to resolve conflicts, promote democracy, and fight hunger, terrorism, disease, and human and Earth rights abuses . In order to
bring about the event of peace, Global Community is offering other organizations around the world to work together to bring warring parties to peace. We can accomplish this task by concrete
actions such as:
a) Tracking armed conflicts within and between nations around the world and offering assistance in dispute resolution;
b) Promoting human rights and democracy;
c) Monitoring democratic elections; and
d) Educating the public about the advantages of a peaceful solution to any conflict.
Since its beginning in 1985, many accomplishments can be claimed by Global Community:
- Global Community
- Global Parliament
- Formation of Earth Government
- Formation of the Global Governments Federation
- Establishment of the Global Justice Movement for all Life
- Global Community of North America (GCNA)
- Global Information Media (GIM)
- Global Law
- Global Politics
- Global Citizens Act
- Scale of Global Rights
- Life Day Celebration, May 26
- ECO Award
- Movement for Cultural Appreciation
- Cultural Appreciation Day, August 22
- Global Community of North America (GCNA) Emergency, Rescue, and Relief Centre
- Global Sustainability
- Soul of Humanity Centre
- Soul of Humanity
- Soul of all Life
- Global Exhibition
- Building of Global Communities for all Life
- Global Constitution
- Global Dialogue
- Politics and Justice without borders
- Planet - Life - Soul of Humanity symbiotical relationship
- Global Education and Training
- Earth Management
- Global Data Measurement and Assessment
- Global indicator GESDI
- Global indicator GSDP
- Global Civilization
- Global Labour Force
- Global Environmental Protection
- Protection of Earth ecosystems and of the global life-support systems
- Global Economic Model
- Certified Corporate Global Community Citizenship (CCGCC)
- New way of doing business
- Global Movement for Taxation on all Earth Natural Resources
- Global Protection Agency (GPA)
- Global Community institutions and bodies
- Global Governance
- and many more.
We have claimed ownership of all of the above as ours because we were the first in establishing them, defining them and promoting them on a monthly basis with Newsletters,
press releases and letters.
The Table of Contents show more achievements we also claimed ownership of. Each achievement has a link to connect for more details.
Happy 30th year Anniversary everyone. May you all have a very happy, peaceful, healthy and prosperous 30th year Anniversary of Global Community.
Germain
Germain Dufour
(short Bio)
(a more extensive description of my PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS)
Prophet of God
Spiritual Leader of the Global Community
President
Global Community WebNet Ltd.
Authors of research papers and articles on global issues for this month
William Blum, Guy Crequie (2), Alex Ellefson, Environment News Service,
Pepe Escobar (2), Andrea Germanos, Chris Hedges (2), Naomi Klein,
Lauren McCauley, Robin McKie, Maureen Nandini Mitra, Guy Moreau,
Fred Pearce, Dr Gideon Polya, Md. Hasibur Rahman, Chris Rhodes,
Tristan A. Shaw, Isaiah Thompson, Gail Tverberg, Eric Zuesse (4),
William Blum, Russia Invades Ukraine. Again. And Again. And Yet Again … Using Saddam’s WMD
Guy Crequie, APRES LA CONFERENCE DE LIMA SUR LE CLIMAT == ET LA SUITE !
Guy Crequie, UN MONDE SANS GUERRE EST-IL POSSIBLE ?
Alex Ellefson, Why India Is Unlikely to Do Much About Cutting Its Emissions
Environment News Service, 2014 Will Likely Be The Hottest Year on Record, Ocean Temps Spike
Pepe Escobar, Russia and China Are Teaming Up as the World's New Power Elite
Pepe Escobar, How China Is Transforming the World
Andrea Germanos, Global Warming To Worsen Global 'Dead Zones'
Chris Hedges, The Myth of Human Progress
Chris Hedges, Saving The Planet, One Meal At A Time
Naomi Klein, The Ethics of Climate Hope: Naomi Klein's Response to Elizabeth Kolbert's Review of 'This Changes Everything'
Lauren McCauley, 'A Roadmap To Global Burning': COP20 Closes With Even Weaker Climate Pact
Robin McKie, Earth Faces Sixth ‘Great Extinction’ with 41% of Amphibians Set to Go the Way of the Dodo
Maureen Nandini Mitra, Serious Question: Should Humans Extend Personhood to Animals?
Guy Moreau, Le meilleur destin de l'Humanité ou le pire O melhor destino da humanidade, ou pior El mejor destino de la humanidad o algo peor:
Fred Pearce, What Is The Carbon Limit? That Depends Who You Ask
Dr Gideon Polya, This Changes Everything. Capitalism vs. the Climate” by Naomi Klein - Green Socialist Revolution ASAP
Md. Hasibur Rahman, Role of Management Information System (MIS) in Disaster Management
Chris Rhodes, Regenerative Agriculture: The Transition
Tristan A. Shaw, Embracing The Specter Of Systemic Collapse
Isaiah Thompson, Explosions, Evacuations and Death: The Incredible Risks of Transporting Crude Oil Via Train
Gail Tverberg, Ten Reasons Why A Severe Drop In Oil Prices Is A Problem
Eric Zuesse, E U DemandsRussia Bail Out EU & Ukraine
Eric Zuesse, Ukrainian Soldier Confirms: Ukraine's Military Shot Down Malaysian MH17 Plane
Eric Zuesse, Obama's Secret Deals With Saudi Arabia & Qatar
Eric Zuesse, Media Blackout As U.S. Sponsors Genocide In Southeastern Ukraine
