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 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 2014, the concentration is 400 ppmv. And after all the dirty tars sands oil of Alberta, Canada, 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.
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 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
Global competition over natural resources
Global Community concept of
ownership states that land
and natural resources of the planet are a common heritage and belong equally to everyone as a birthright. Products and services created by individuals
are properly viewed as private property. Products and services created by groups of individuals are properly viewed as collective property.
The impacts of our democracy are destroying the Earth global life-support systems.
A few people have control over so much of the Earth!
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 conflicts 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 economic and military power.
Truly, resources have become the new political boundaries.
The need to manage Earth resources, world affairs, and essential services with global ministries
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.
The planet's fresh water, fisheries, forests and atmosphere are already strained.
Based on these trends, it is clear that the 21st century will witness even greater pressures on natural resources. Current demographic
trends offer hope, however. Over the past 40 years the average number of children born to each woman has fallen from five to
less than three.
Young people increasingly want to wait to have children and to have smaller families. Policymakers have a choice.
They can do nothing, or they can help ensure that in the 21st century the world's population peaks with fewer than 8 billion
people, simply by committing the financial resources to meet the needs of couples who want to have smaller families, later in life.
Water is a fundamental human rights
Water belongs to the Earth and all species and is sacred to life therefore, the world’s water must be conserved, reclaimed and protected for all future
generations and its natural patterns respected.
Water is a fundamental human right and a public trust to be guarded by all levels of government; therefore, it should not be commodified, privatized or
traded for commercial purposes. These rights must be enshrined at all levels of government. In particular, an international treaty must ensure these
principles are noncontrovertable.
Water is best protected by local communities and citizens, who must be respected as equal partners with governments in the protection and regulation of water.
The world situation concerning freshwater is critical. Water tables are diminishing on every part
of the world. Water quality and availability affect environmental
quality for life support. Groundwater aquifers are more polluted. Water tables
are falling on all continents, while human demand for water increases.
Over 1 billion people lack
safe driking water. Almost half of the world population does not have adequate sanitation. Most diseases in the developing world are water-related. If current trends continue, half the
world could face water shortages by 2032. About 70% of freshwater withdrawals is for agriculture. The quality of the soil for agriculture is also decreasing worldwide.
More funding is needed for safe water supply projects. The world situation concerning freshwater is critical. Water tables are diminishing on every part
of the world. Water quality and availability affect environmental
quality for life support. Groundwater aquifers are more polluted. Water tables
are falling on all continents, while human demand for water increases.
Over 1 billion people lack
safe driking water. Almost half of the world population does not have adequate sanitation. Most diseases in the developing world are water-related. If current trends continue, half the
world could face water shortages by 2032. About 70% of freshwater withdrawals is for agriculture. The quality of the soil for agriculture is also decreasing worldwide.
Agricultural practices must be changed to get more crop per liter of water by:
* developing plants that are drought-hearty and more tolerant to a lesser quality of the soil
* practicing desalination and water efficiencies in agricultural and urban usage
The lack of potable water and availability of water for agriculture use will contribute to the cause of conflicts between nations.
In order to avoid conflicts over water, other actions have to be taken:
* investing in reforestation and in watershed management
* promoting the healthy effects of vegetarianism
* using animal stem cells to produce meat tissue without animals
* securing treaties and cooperatives agreements on water rights
* implementing integrated water management plans
Because of an ever-increasing global population and of human impacts on the natural environment, freshwater resources have become essentials to human life and to all life in Earth. There is an urgent need to protect these resources and for integrated
understanding of lakes, wetlands and flowing waters.
Drinking water is vital to
life on Earth. Only 2.5 per cent of all water on Earth is fresh water most of which lies deep and frozen in Antarctica
and Greenland. What we drink comes mostly from groundwater, rivers and
lakes. Precipitation, melt water from glaciers, dew and fog drip constantly
replenish our fresh water resources. They are also constantly depleted by
evaporation and transpiration. These water resources are changing due to the the
variations in the hydrological cycle from place to place and from day to day.
They are all what we have got. Nothing else! They are very precious to all
humankind, and to all life as well.
Water in the home comes from either spring water, a deep well,
a river or a city reservoir, and is never 'pure'. If water was untreated, it would contain man-made contaminants, minerals, gases, salts, and microorganisms, which would cause unacceptable taste or health risks. Hazardous compounds present in water are mercury, lead, agricultural chemicals, arsenic, organochlorine compounds formed by the chlorine added to municipal water to destroy microorganisms, industrial pollutants, solvents,
pesticide, fertilizer, and other contaminants. Our body absorbs equally these contaminants through drinking water or while bathing. City water is regulated for
health hazards and does not contain dangerous bacterial contamination. It may contain chemical contaminants from industrial discharge or hazardous waste disposal, vinyl chloride from P.V.C. plastic pipe.
Most people take for granted the water we use to wash the car,
to water the lawn, cook and flush our wastes away, to shower, do half-loads of laundry, run the water while brushing our teeth, and ignore a dripping tap, and dump down the drain motor oil, solvents, paints, cleaners.
Water pollution varies in severity from one
region to the next depending of the density of urban development, agricultural
and industrial practices and the presence or absence of systems for collecting
and treating the waste waters.
Human health is dependent on a wholesome and
reliable supply of water and safe sanitation. It has been estimated that at any
given time about half the people living in developing countries are suffering
from water-related diseases caused directly by infection, or indirectly by
disease-carrying organisms that breed in water. Diarrhoea. infections by
parasitic worms, river blindness and malaria are among the most widespread of
these diseases. More than five million people are estimated to die each year
from diseases related to inadequate sanitation and hygiene practices, and
drinking polluted water.
There is a need to add a sociological, political and anthropological dimension to current debates on
the sustainable use of water in the world.
More specifically, the impacts of human activities on the management of water supplies can have on local populations.
Global Community should develop and implement a program for the restoration of the hydrological cycle on all continents and the cooling of the planet.
The effect will be to stop the drying out of continents.
Similarly, all the Earth natural resources belong to Global Community to be used, developed and protected for the maximum benefit of the people and of all
life.
To develop and protect Earth natural resources for the maximum benefit of all people and other life forms on our planet
There is a multitude of diverse Earth resources being taken from the ground and water, carried away for processing, manufacturing, packaging, or used in some form or another by consumers, and by commercial and industrial facilities.
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 from beginning to end, from the exploration stage to the consumer.
A Ministry of Global Resources
is needed to look after the management of Earth resources at all stages: exploration, production, transportation, manufacturing and distribution.
It would be much less costly to recycle discarded materials. It makes no sense to spend so much energy trying to find new mines
when there is an enormous amount of useful metal in cities and landfills. For instance, why do we need to keep gold in safety deposit boxes, bank vaults, and jewelry boxes? There is
more gold in boxes than in underground mines.
A study made by Global Community of the ecological accounting and balance sheet for mining has shown that minerals are obtained in a way that:
* uses too much energy
* generates too much pollution and causes significant health and safety problems
* degrades permanently the environment during extraction, refining, and smelting of minerals
* encourages poor regions to yoke their futures
Mines have transformed landscapes and the lives of local people who live near mineral deposits. Entire communities have been uprooted
in order to make way for mine projects. People had to forsake traditional occupations and suffer the effects of living beside a mine
that poisons their water supplies or pollutes the air they breathe. Local people who got jobs in a mine had to trade health problems
for an income. Prostitution and drug use are serious problems at mining sites.
In fact, mineral dependence reduces economic growth in developing countries. Extracting raw materials for export is far less lucrative than processing the materials or manufacturing finished goods.
By extracting minerals, countries are essentially running down their stocks of nonrenewable resources.
Mineral exporting-countries become heavily indebted to international lenders and much of what they earn from minerals and other exports never enters the national economy but is used instead to service the external debt.
These countries have typically invested little in social services, such as education and health care, and are beleaguered by conflicts
over resources and political instabilities.
Even though social, economic and environmental costs of mining are high and mineral prices are low, mining operations are still expanding. Mining firms
have profited from direct and indirect subsidies handed out to them by governments. Mining firms benefits a lot from the cheap fuel and from the
roads and other infrastructure made available to them. Even more surprising, mining firms do not usually pay royalties or taxes on profits, and
governments provide immunity to companies against compensation claims. The final hand-out of public money occurs when mines have to close down or
are abandoned, and governments and taxpayers are stuck with cleanup after companies have gone bankrupt or just walked away from
poor projects.
Fisheries are a global common, a shared resource to be managed within a global sustainable use framework
Fisheries, like the other global resources listed in this section, are part of "global commons" or shared resources such as our atmosphere, oceans, rivers and lakes, fish stocks, national parks, fresh and drinkable water, non-renewable energy sources such as oil and coal (all fossil fuels), soils, forest, the electromagnetic spectrum, advertising, and even parking meters.
It is becoming more and more obvious that global commons are being overused, depleted, wasted, or controlled by self interests. It is a tragedy when the depletion of a shared resource by individuals, acting independently and rationally according to each one's self-interest, despite their understanding that depleting the common resource is contrary to the group's long-term best interests.
Our fisheries are at risk, as climate change affects both the populations and ranges of species sensitive to changes in water temperature, and have impacts on habitat. The Pacific marine fishery is likely to see lower sustainable salmon harvests in the south, but higher and more consistent harvests in the north. The Atlantic marine fishery is likely to suffer negative impacts resulting from complex and unpredictable changes in the water currents that shape the offshore habitats.
Overfishing, including the taking of fish beyond sustainable levels, is reducing fish stocks and employment in many world regions.
The world 's ocean fisheries are already being fished to their maximum capacities or are in decline. Global fish production climbed modestly in 1997, the last year for which global data are available, almost entirely because the farming of fish expanded in the world 's most populous country, China. Most fisheries worldwide are fully exploited or in decline. While the number of individual fishers continues to increase, the amount of fish each one catches is falling steadily. The poor have long depended on fish for complete protein, but population growth is helping to push this important food source out of their reach.
The average summer temperature of the Fraser River, British Columbia, Canada, has increased by 1.1°C over the past 50 years. A warmer climate may pose problems for salmon as they migrate upriver to spawn. Salmon are sensitive to temperature; warmer water can deplete their energy reserves, and make them more vulnerable to stress, infection, and disease. Salmon migration patterns and success in spawning are likely to change.
If summer river temperatures continue to rise, fewer fish may make it successfully upriver to their spawning grounds, and some salmon populations may be at risk.
A high level of ecological protection is essential to long term prosperity and well-being of people
Earth Environmental Governance can only be achieved successfully within
the larger context of Sustainable Developent
and Earth Management.
All
aspects are inter-related and affect one another.
A healthy environment is essential to long term prosperity and well-being,
and citizens in Global Community demand a high level of ecological protection.
This is the 'raison d'etre' of the Scale of Global Rights.
In this way the Scale of Global Rights gives us a 'sense of direction'
for future planning and managing of the Earth. Earth management is now
well defined and becomes a goal to achieve. We no longer waste energy and
resources in things that are absolutely unimportant.
Global Community found evident that the ecological base
is the essential prerequisite for the effectiveness and exercise of all
rights recognized for human beings. The stewardship of the ecological base
has to be given priority before the fulfilment of various economic and
social wishes. Demands resulting from the socio-economic system of a particular
country have to find their limits in the protection of Global ecosystem.
Vital interests of future generations have to be considered as having priority
before less vital interests of the present generation. Supply chains have
to be designed in a way, that the goods can enter after usage or consumption
into natural or industrial recycling processes.
If serious damages to persons,
animals, plants and the ecosystem cannot be excluded, an action or pattern
of behaviour should be refrained from. A measure for supplying goods or
services should choose a path which entails the least possible impact on
the ecological and social system concerned. This way functioning proven
systems will not be disturbed, and unnecessary risks will not be
taken.
Supply strategies consuming less resources should have preference before those enhancing
more resource consumption. Global Community has also extended
the idea of sustainability to be a moral and ethical state
, as well as
an economic and environmental state, wherein sustainable consumption patterns
respect the universal values of peace, security, justice and equity within
the human relationships that exist in Global Community.
When there is a
need to find a solution to a problem or a concern, a sound solution
would be to choose a measure or conduct an action, if possible, which causes
reversible damage as oppose to a measure or an action causing an irreversible
loss.
The Earth's forests provide goods and services essential to human and planetary well-being
The world's forests provide goods and services essential to human and planetary well-being. But forests are disappearing faster
today than ever before. Due both to deforestation and human population growth, the current ratio of forests to human beings is less than half
what it was in 1960. Yet we not only need more forests, we need forests more than ever before to protect the world's remaining plant and
lifeforms, to prevent flooding, to slow human-induced climate change, and to provide the paper on which education and communication still
depend. More efficient consumption of forest products and eventual stabilization of human population are needed to conserve the world's forests
in the this millennium.
Half of the world's original forest cover is gone, a loss that reflects humanity's intensive use of land since the invention of farming.
The vast primeval forests
of Europe and Asia survive today only as patchwork remnants of secondary growth, much of it vulnerable to logging, encroachment by development,
pollution, fire and disease.
Population dynamics are among the primary underlying causes of forest decline. Poverty, corruption, inequitable access to land and wasteful
consumption practices also influence the decisions of governments, corporations and individuals to cut and clear forests. The interaction of these forces
is most evident in areas such as South Asia, Central America and sub-Saharan Africa, where poverty, rapid population growth and weak institutions
contribute to forest loss and severe environmental degradation.
The dominant force in forest loss is growth in the demand for farmland. Subsistence agriculture is the principal cause of forest loss in Africa,
Asia and much of Latin America. Slash-and-burn farming and other traditional techniques were sustainable for centuries when population densities
were lower. Today they are a major factor, along with the expansion of commercial farms and livestock grazing areas, in the permanent conversion
of wooded land to agriculture. The need to increase food production is expected to accelerate the forest-to-farmland cycle, especially in
countries where alternatives for meeting this demand are limited.
Total wood consumption has tripled during the 20th century. Per capita consumption has changed little on a global basis–actually
decreasing slightly–but consumption patterns vary widely between countries. A typical American uses 15 times as much lumber and paper
as a resident of a developing country. Reducing wood consumption in the industrialized world is unlikely to stop forest loss in developing
countries however, since most of the wood consumed comes from trees in the industrialized countries themselves. Nevertheless, the consumption
model offered to the rest of the world threatens accelerated forest loss as both populations and economies grow in developing countries.
Commercial logging of tropical forests has more than doubled since 1960, accounts for 5 million to 6 million hectares of forest loss each year.
This is about one third the forest area lost each year in the developing world. Illegal logging causes
a significant, though unquantified, amount of additional forest loss. Logging's biggest role in deforestation, however, is more indirect.
Logging roads provide pathways deep into forests that farmers and other settlers then follow, permanently clearing the land for crops and pasture.
Nearly 3 billion people depend on wood as their main source of energy. The production of fuelwood and charcoal accounts for over
90 percent of the wood harvested in Africa, 80 percent in Asia and 70 percent in Latin America. Population growth is closely linked to rising
woodfuel demand. The effects of woodfuel scarcity are most severe in impoverished areas, where more modern fuels are inaccessible or unaffordable.
Women and children are the victims of woodfuel scarcity. The search for fuel consumes the time, energy and health of women and their
children. As local wood supplies grow scarce, women risk spinal column damage and uterine prolapse from carrying heavier loads over longer
distances. Girls are often kept home from school to help their mothers gather wood, depriving them of educational opportunities. Where wood
is unavailable, women cook with inefficient fuels such as animal dung or crop wastes, depriving livestock of fodder and soils of natural fertilizer.
This endangers both the nutritional and respiratory health of women and their families.
Forest scarcity threatens the use of paper for education. About 80 percent
of the world's population lack access to enough affordable paper and reading materials to meet basic standards for literacy and communication.
Reducing paper consumption could help ensure enough paper for all. These efforts are undermined, however, by broader inequalities in access to
education and economic opportunity. Closing the "paper gap" between rich and poor nations ultimately depends on government action
to increase spending on education, health and social services in developing countries. Future population growth and forest loss will largely determine
whether and when this gap can be closed.
Population policies based on human development and the Scale of Global Rights offer the greatest hope for the future of forests 
. This is not an
argument for population "control" but for the social investments that allow couples to choose when to have children and how many to have.
Programs linking conservation activities with family planning services show promise for achieving both the sustainable use of forests and greater
acceptance of reproductive health services.
Sustainable wood consumption is essential for the future of forests. Individuals and institutions alike should promote the ecologically sound
and socially responsible use of forest products. Eco-labeling, or the environmental certification of wood products, could speed the adoption
of more sustainable forestry practices. Consumer demand for green-certified paper and other wood products is an important complement to recycling
and other efforts to reduce wood consumption.
The well-being of the world's forests is closely linked to the health and well-being of women. Investing in education for girls
helps them to contribute to their national economies–and to postpone childbearing until they are ready for a family. Providing credit and other economic opportunities for women creates alternatives to early and frequent childbearing. Finally, better access to quality reproductive
health services directly benefits women and their families. These approaches increase human capacity, providing the greatest long-term return to societies, individuals and the environment. Moreover, they are likely to lead to an early peak in world population in the coming century, quite possibly at levels that can co-exist with forests that teem with human and non-human life for centuries to come.
Deforestation removes a large sink of CO2 and adds a large source of CO2 to the atmosphere
Deforestation is the removal of trees, often as a result of human activities.
It is often cited as one of the major causes of the enhanced greenhouse effect. Trees remove carbon (in the form of carbon dioxide) from the atmosphere during the process of photosynthesis. Both the rotting and burning of wood releases this stored carbon carbon dioxide back in to the atmosphere.
The earth's atmosphere contains about 400 ppm CO
2 by volume. Due to the greater land area, and therefore greater plant life, in the northern hemisphere as compared to the southern hemisphere, there is an annual fluctuation of about 5 ppm, peaking in May and reaching a minimum in October at the end of the northern hemisphere growing season, when the quantity of biomass on the planet is greatest.
Despite its small concentration, CO
2 is a very important component of Earth's atmosphere, because it traps infrared radiation and enhances the greenhouse effect of water vapor, thus keeping the Earth from cooling down. The initial carbon dioxide in the atmosphere of the young Earth was produced by volcanic activity; this was necessary for a warm and stable climate conducive to life. Volcanic activity now releases about 130-230 million tonnes (145-255 million tons) of carbon dioxide each year. Volcanic releases are about 1% the amount which is released by human activities.
Atmospheric CO
2 has increased about 30 percent since the early 1800s, with an estimated increase of 17 percent since 1958 (burning fossil fuels such as coal and petroleum is the leading cause of increased man-made CO
2, deforestation the second major cause).
The CO
2 concentration in the atmosphere is being affected by deforestation and, as a consequence, this human activity:
* removes a large sink for CO2, and it
* adds a large source of CO2 to the atmosphere (via burning after logging, or and decomposition)
It is also estimated that rainforests provide up to 40% of the oxygen currently found in the atmosphere.
Forests store large amounts of CO
2, buffering the CO
2 in the atmosphere. The carbon retained in the Amazon basin
is equivalent to at least 20% of the entire atmospheric CO
2. Destruction of the forests would release about four fifths of the CO
2 to the
atmosphere. Half of the CO
2 would dissolve in the oceans but the other half would be added to the 16% increase already observed this century,
accelerating world temperature increases.
Agriculture faces an increasing challenge in feeding the growing world population
The number of people living in countries where cultivated land is critically scarce is projected to increase
to between 600 million and 986 million in 2025. Despite the Green Revolution and other technological advances, agriculture
experts continue to debate how long crop yields will keep up with population growth. The food that feeds the future will be raised
mostly on today's cropland. The soil on this land must remain fertile to keep food production secure. Easing world hunger could become unimaginably difficult if population growth resembles
demographers' higher projections.
Soils represent an important component of the terrestrial resources.
In fact, more carbon is stored in soils (including peat) than in all of the vegetation of the world!
Global warming and agriculture
Weather conditions such as temperature, radiation and water, determine the carrying capacity of the biosphere to produce enough food for the human population and domesticated animals. Any short-term fluctuations of the climate can have dramatic effects on the agricultural productivity. Thus, the climate has a direct incidence on food supply.
In the coming years, unless population size is stabilized, agriculture will have to face an increasing challenge in feeding the growing population of the world.
To create a biodiversity zone over the entire planet by way of Earth rights and taxation of natural resources
Fot the protection of those global communities we will need to create a biodiversity zone over the entire planet by way of Earth rights and taxation of natural resources.
Climate change is a result of the rising global temperatures associated with global warming and human activities, the effects of which have a direct impact on all life on Earth.
Global warming is causing the melting of the polar ice caps.
The Polar Regions are very sensitive indicators of global warming. These regions are highly vulnerable to rising temperatures and may be virtually ice free by the
summer of 2030.
Global Community also proposes that all nations of the world promote the
Scale of Global Rights and the
criteria to obtain Global Community
Citizenship. Every global community citizen lives a life with the higher values described in the Scale and the criteria. Global community citizens are good members of
the human family. Most global problems, including global warming and world overpopulation, can be managed through acceptance of the Scale and the criteria.
Global Community can contribute in
evaluating options and strategies for adapting to climate change as it occurs, and in identifying human activities that are
even now maladapted to climate. There are two fundamental types of response to the risks of climate change:
1. reducing the rate and magnitudes of change through mitigating the causes, and
2. reducing the harmful consequences through anticipatory adaptation.
Mitigating the causes of global warming implies limiting the rates and magnitudes of increase in atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, either by reducing
emissions or by increasing sinks for atmospheric CO2. Reducing the harmful consequences can be achieved by co-operating together with Global ministries on
climate change and emergencies. Global Community has created Global ministries to help humanity be prepared to fight the harmful consequences of a
global warming through anticipatory adaptation. Global ministries on climate change and emergencies are now operating. The ministries have developed:
1. policy response to the consequences of Global warming, and
2. strategies to adapt to the consequences of the unavoidable climate change.
Producers of the greenhouse gases are committing a crime against humanity
Producers of the greenhouse gases tell us "we are energy efficient" but the truth of the matter is that they are producing the deadly
gases of mass destruction, and those deadly gases are killing us all, and all life on Earth. It does not matter how smart you may be
in fooling yourselves in accepting a slow death, a suicide in a way, you are still killing yourselves and the people of the next generations. That
is a crime against humanity. You are criminals.
An oil company is proudly telling us with all sorts of gifts, grants and awards to the community that every year they have 'given' to
their customers trillions of litres of the deadly gases. And, their customers, very proudly and carefully burned all of those litres. That is the biggest problem. We are told that we should be proud
of burning the deadly gases. Americans invaded the Middle East to burn trillions of barrels of oil. That means
trillions of litres of the deadly gases entering the atmosphere of the Earth. The best and cheapest oil in the world being
taken over by the worst consumers of the world. Just how mad are we? How insane are we getting to be? How can anyone be proud
of thenselves about such an invasion? What is it? We enjoy driving with freedom on the highway?! We enjoy driving and to forget
completely that we are actually killing ourselves and taking away the lives of people of the next generations. We want to forget
we are destroying all life on Earth because that is the price of freedom with insanity.
Trading partners to become legally and morally responsible and accountable for their products from beginning to end
Over its long past history trade has never evolved to require from the trading partners to become legally and morally responsible and accountable for their products from
beginning to end. At the end the product becomes a waste and it needs to be properly dispose of. Now trade must be given a new impetus to be in line with Global
concepts of Global Community. You manufacture, produce, mine, farm or create a product, you become legally and morally responsible and
accountable of your product from beginning to end (to the point where it actually becomes a waste; you are also responsible for the proper disposable of the waste).
This product may be anything and everything from oil & gas, weapons, war products, to genetically engineered food products. All consumer products. All medicinal
products! All pharmaceutical products! In order words, a person becomes responsible and accountable for anything and everything in his or her life.
As a business you may be using standards of operating and managing that are similar to the ISO 14001 environmental
management plan (internationally recognized standards that provide guidelines to reduce environmental impacts). ISO 14001 provides a framework
for continual improvement to mitigate potential environmental impacts from operations and businesses dealing with your company.
The problem is not so much how good is your environmental management plan. The problem is the product you produce and put on the market
to consumers. The problem is your product, a deadly product of mass destruction. It is worst than all known weapons of mass destruction as
it kills by making consumers believe it is good for them. Like smoking cigarettes! Companies making cigarettes have for long told
their consumers that a longer filter would not affect them so much and they would not get cancer and die of it. Whether or not you use
the most energy-efficient machines and the best management team, and ISO 14001 for that matter, at the end it does not matter. You are still
producing the deadly gases and consumers are still burning them. Consider the long filter for cigarettes as an illusionary solution
to the problem and so are carbon emission trading permits.
Oil companies are responsible and accountable of their products from beginning to end. The 'end' for an oil company does not
end at the gas pump where a consumer buy your refine products. No! The end for you goes all the way to global warming, to pollution
of the environment, to the destruction of Global life-support systems, to taking away lives of future generations, to the destruction of life on Earth.
Very much so!
Global Community proposes to ask you to pay a global tax on your products. The tax would be high enough to discourage consumers
from buying your products and force you to use viable alternatives. The Governments of the United States and Canada should put a high tax on all oil based products and their derivatives and certainly gasoline should have the highest tax possible.
The tax would be a carbon tax allocated for the protection of the environment and Global life-support systems.
A workable type of Tobin tax should also be in place as it is a powerful instrument to promote sustainable development and force shareholders in moving away from
producing oil.
We need to improve on our ability to:
* predict future anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases. While demographic, technological and economic factors
are in many respects inherently speculative, better observations and
understanding of the processes by which human activities directly or
indirectly contribute to emissions are clearly required. These in
particular include emissions from deforestation and agricultural
activities;
* obtain more data on the effect of human emissions on atmospheric concentrations of
greenhouse gases. Not only do we need to reduce the uncertainties about
past and current sinks for emitted greenhouse gases, but we need to
better understand and quantify the long term feedbacks such as CO2
fertilization and physical and biological response to climate change if
we expect to improve our confidence in projections of future
concentrations.
* measure direct and indirect effects of radiative forcing of greenhouse gases and aerosols.
* measure climate sensitivity to changes in radiative forcing.
* measure the response to climate change of biological and physical processes
with the terrestrial and ocean systems
* obtain an early detection of the signal of human interference with the climate
system against the change caused by natural forces or internal system
noise is important in fostering timely and responsible coping actions.
* develop actions to limit emissions of greenhouse gases and prepare to
adapt to climate change. However, stabilizing greenhouse gas emissions will not stabilize
greenhouse gas concentrations and climate but only slow down the rates
of change.
* live with the facts that climate change is unavoidable, atmospheric greenhouse
gas concentrations are already signficantly higher than pre-industrial
levels, and that aggressive efforts to reduce their anthropogenic
emission sources would only slow down the growth in their concentrations, not
stop it. Therefore, policy response to this issue must also include
strategies to adapt to the consequences of unavoidable climate change.
Individuals can help bring about a world that is more secure and more supportive of life, health and happiness
Individuals, too, can help bring about a world that is more secure and more supportive of life, health and happiness. They
can educate themselves on population dynamics, consumption patterns
and the impact of these forces on natural resources and the environment. They can be socially, politically and culturally active to elevate
the issues they care about. They can become more environmentally responsible in their purchasing
decisions and their use of energy and natural resources. And individuals and couples can consider the impacts
of their reproductive decisions on their communities and the world as a whole.
Nationalization of natural resources
As defined by Global Community, the concept of ownership states that land and natural resources of the planet are a common heritage and belong equally to everyone, to all life on Earth, as a birthright. Products and services created by individuals are properly viewed as private property. Products and services created by groups of individuals are properly viewed as collective property. Only Global Community can rightfully claim ownership of the Earth. October 29 is the day to celebrate ownership of our natural resources.
Along with ownership comes the obligation of using the resources, share them or lose them. Land and all other Earth natural resources are not commodities. Use the land, share it or lose it. This principle also applies to banks and similar institutions all over the world and to Wall Street. You own property because the previous owners could not pay. Use that property, share it or lose it. Global Community stipulates that land ownership is no longer a problem. The Earth and all its natural resources belong to all the "global communities" contained therein. A village, or a city is "a global community" and owns the land around its boundaries. Along with Global Community, it has ownership of all natural resources within its boundaries. So, by definition, land here, covers all naturally occurring resources like surface land, the air, minerals deposits,
fossil fuels, water, electromagnetic spectrum, the trees, fish in the seas and rivers. It is unjust to treat land as private property. As mentioned above, land here, by definition, covers all naturally occurring resources like surface land, minerals deposits (gold, oil and gas etc), water, electromagnetic spectrum, the trees, fishes in the seas, lakes and rivers. It is unjust to treat land as private property. Land is not a product of labour. Everyone should therefore be given equal access to such natural resources.
In order to better protect life on our planet, Global Community is asking people of all nations to defend and protect their natural resources. In particular, all the hydrocarbons within a national territory must be nationalized. It is an obligation, not only of a national government, but also of all the active forces in a country; it is the duty of local and municipal authorities, the duty of state authorities, of everyone, to take upon themselves this defense and this recuperation of natural resources.
Nationalization is a necessity because American corporations have been buying local corporations to acquire natural resources of a country. This state of affairs has been going on ever since WWII. Over the past decades, the US national debt and annual deficit have been out-of-control because of a complete business freedom of the US corporate world. No taxation! When a large corporation is about to go out of business, the White House intervened with a bail out.
Planetary trading blocks should be serving Global Community and not the other way around,
people around the world serving the very few rich individuals
Global Community has made clear that globalization and planetary trading blocks should be serving the Human Family and not the other way around,
the people around the world serving the very few rich individuals. Conflicts and wars in the world are often the results of bad trading of
arms and oil and the absence of moral responsibility and accountability in our way of doing business with the Middle East nations.
By applying proper moral safeguards and accepting responsibility and accountability of all products (arms and oil in this case),
from beginning to end where they become wastes, each corporation would make free trade and globalization serving the Human Family.
Over its long past history trade has never evolved to require from the trading partners to
become legally and morally responsible and accountable for their products from beginning to end. At the end the product becomes
a waste and it needs to be properly dispose of. Now trade must be given a new impetus to be in line with Global concepts of
Global Community.
When you do exploration work, develop, manufacture, produce, mine, farm or create a product, you become legally
and morally responsible and accountable of your product from beginning to end (to the point where it actually becomes a waste;
you are also responsible for the proper disposable of the waste). This product may be anything and everything from oil & gas,
weapons, war products, construction products, transportation and communications products and equipment, to genetically
engineered food products. All consumer products! All medical products! All pharmaceutical products! In order words, a person
(a person may be an individual, a community, a government, a business, an NGO, or an institution) becomes responsible and
accountable for anything and everything in his or her Life.
No more waiting! Time for
action is now! We are all responsible for the creation of global warming, and there are plenty of observable effects. Greenhouse
gases are accumulating dangerously in the Earth's atmosphere as a result of human activities, and temperatures are rising globally
due to these activities. Climate changes have to be managed without delays.
Consumers in the developed nations should be concerned with the impact of their decisions on the global environment but also on the lives, global rights and well-being of people in other parts of the world
Global consumption is a very important aspect of globalization. Consumers should be concerned with the impact of their decisions on
the environment but also on the lives, global rights and well-being of other people. Since one of the key functions of
families as a social institution is to engage in production (selling their labour in return for wages) and consumption (using
those wages to buy goods and services), then the role of families has impacts on sustainable consumption and development.
Corporations are required to expand their responsibilities to include global rights, the environment, community and
family aspects, safe working conditions, fair wages and sustainable consumption aspects. Global Community has summarized the rights of every
person on Earth by developing the Scale of Global Rights.
The scale will eventually be
replacing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Global Constitution established all rights.
Just as corporations have social responsibilities and so do consumers in societies. Consumers are socialized to improve the
quality of their lives.
Quality of Life is a multi-dimensional, complex and very subjective concept. For instance,
someone who has changed their consumption habits to better ensure that their choices will make a better quality of Life for
themselves, the environment and future generations, may be seen by others as having a lower or inferior quality of Life since they
have removed themselves from the materialistic mainstream characteristic of our consumer society. Someone may feel that an absence
of violence and abuse in their Life leads to a higher quality of living even though they have fewer tangible resources, money, or
shelter; peace of mind and freedom from abuse has increased the quality of their daily Life relative to what it was like before.
There are universal quality of Life values which lead to "human betterment" or the improvement of the human condition. In addition
to the value of species survival (human and other living organisms), they include: adequate resources, justice and equality,
freedom, and peace or balance of power. A better quality of Life for all global citizens is a goal for all of us and
one of our universal values.
Global Community is creating a global civilization based on a just and tolerant society giving everyone the opportunity of becoming a global citizen.
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and approaches to humanity's survival are urgently needed today.
for people to live by. The Scale tells you what is the most important, and
what is the least important for the survival of our species. By accepting the Scale as our first principle,
many activities would not be conducted as we would know their destructive effects. Well! That is the idea! 
is about courage
to live a Life in a harmonious peace order and showing by example, thus
preventing poverty, wars, terror and violence. We need to educate the coming
generations with good principles, being compassionate, social harmony and
global sustainability being some of them.
has been and continue to be
researched and developed for this purpose.
. They are not given by states or corporations, nor can they be extinguished by state or corporate action. No state or corporation has the
right to erode or undermine these natural rights or enclose the commons that sustain all through privatisation or monopoly control.
