1.     Legitimate leadership is built upon trust. Those who are led must largely believe that the leader is committed to integrity, honesty, and transparent inquiry into problems. The leader’s actions must align with his words

2.     Legitimate leadership rests upon checks and balances, which are necessary to ensure power is not corrupted.

3.     Legitimate leadership is an act of service. Those in power must show a primary interest in the good of the collective ahead of their self-interest. In this way, true leaders are mission-centered rather than self-centered.

4.     Legitimate leadership empowers others appropriately rather than concentrating power disproportionately. In other words, true leaders produce more leaders and empower them as situations demand.

5.     Legitimate leadership is visionary, carrying the torch of a possible future.

6.     Legitimate leadership is willing to lead by example, including following a foundation of ethics, performing more than one’s share of work, and making sacrifices where appropriate.

7.     Legitimate leadership is compassionately fierce when something undermines the good of the whole. In a company this might mean the CEO fires a slacking employee. In a city, the police may jail a murderer. On a global level, this might even mean arresting those breaking global law.

VIII. Conclusion

A) Seeing the world today, Global Community claims that each of us depends on the well-being of the whole.

And so global citizens have respect for the community of living beings, people and other lifeforms, and plants, and for the preservation of Earth, air, water and soil.

B) Humanity is the planet's keepers. Every global citizen is a Life's protector.

Global Community concepts , ethics and approaches to humanity's survival are urgently needed today.

C) Global Community claims that all lifeforms are important and included as part of global ethics.

It is not just about 'humanity survival' but about 'all lifeforms survival' we are fighting for. The lives of all lifeforms and plants on our planet deserve protection, preservation, and care. Global Community disapproves of the limitless exploitation of the natural foundations of life, the relentless destruction of the biosphere, and the militarization of the space within and above the Earth's atmosphere. Global citizens must live in harmony with nature on and above the Earth's surface.

D) Symbiotical relationships are needed today for the long term future of humanity and for the protection of Life on Earth.

In our global civilization, the fundamental criteria of a symbiotical relationship between individuals and their communities is that a relationship is created for the good of all groups participating in the relationship and for the good of humanity, all Life on Earth. The relationship allows a global equitable and peaceful development and a more stable and inclusive global economy. We have defined that any symbiotical relationship is for the good of all, for the good of the 'other'. It is based on a genuine group concern and unconditional support for the individual's well-being ~ a giant leap in human behaviour. The question is how can we improve the political symbiotical relationship to fulfill the fundamental criteria? Global Community promotes values and principles to achieve the fundamental criteria and that requires the promoting and establishment of: global community ethics, mutual respect, respect for Life , basic liberties, justice and equity, caring for the 'other', integrity, responsibility and accountability.

E) Economic and political power must be used as a service to humanity instead of misusing it in ruthless battles for domination.

Global Community faith can help to develop a spirit of compassion with those who suffer, with special care for the children, the aged, the poor, the disabled, and the refugees.

F) "We the Peoples", Global Community, will protect life on Earth at all costs.

We need ways of organizing ourselves to help us live in a world with less energy and grow strong caring communities in which we get more of our human satisfaction from caring relationships and less from material goods. We need to reclaim the ideal of being a democratic middle-class people without extremes of wealth and poverty. We need to recover a deep sense of community that has disappeared from many of our lives. This means letting go a sense of ourselves as consumption machines.

G) Global Community ethics

Global Community ethics have established that the greatest happiness of the greatest number of people is a measure of right and wrong. What matters is the combined positive effect of everyone and not only of any one person (or the wealthy 1% in our society). Global Community ethics are meant to save humanity, all lifeforms on Earth, from extinction, and includes a process based on the Scale of Global Rights which describes social values in order of importance to help us understand clearly the rights of a community and its citizens. Global citizens have a binding responsibility for the welfare of all humanity and care for all life on Earth.

Global Community ethics are about how we treat others and a commitment to respect every person humanely and with dignity. For this process to work, global citizens learn 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 for the greater good of humanity and future generations.

Obviously the Golden Rule can be only integrated 'softly' within Global Community ethics as global ethics require breaking many rules and morality standards, including human rights. It is Global Community challenge to develop ethics, moral directives, that can be acceptable to all Peoples for the survival of all life on our planet, and that will require sacrifices from us all. Let us remember over and over again that our primary goal and the most important principle on the Scale of Global Rights is the survival of all Life on Earth.

H) Global Community faith

Global Community faith is helping, along with the various communities of faith, to formulate their very specific ethics about the meaning of life and death, the enduring of suffering and the forgiveness of guilt, about selfless sacrifice and the necessity of renunciation, about compassion and joy.

I) Education

The lives of all lifeforms and plants on our planet deserve protection, preservation, and care. Global Community disapproves of the limitless exploitation of the natural foundations of life, the relentless destruction of the biosphere, and the militarization of the space within and above the Earth's atmosphere. Global citizens must live in harmony with nature on and above the Earth's surface.

A major worldwide education program must be organized and coordinated in all nations to educate people on the thousands of ways to protect life on our planet.

J) Global Community has developed a mean to measure the amount of destruction cause by human activities.

Not by Nature! But by human activities! Why is that important? It is important because there are human activities going on in every part of the world. And the world, our planet, can only be pushed to its limits by so much destruction before everyone on the planet suffer extinction. Life extinction! So Global Community has proposed a way to measure human activities of all types and show how important and destructive consequences may be. Global Community already has researched and developed the Scale of Global Rights 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!

We applied here the above principle and conducted measurements on the actual consequences of the activitiy concerning the production, transportation and burning of the dirty tar sands oil of Alberta, Canada. Of course we deal here with actual facts and events and not on what people are saying in the Media. After all of the dirty tar sands oil has been used up, the amounts of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere will bring about the end of all civilizations on Earth. And that is a fact!

1.     Ban military action in all parts of the world;

2.     Lead the way in creating legitimate power for Global Parliament, subjecting ourselves and multinational corporations to taxation that generates money for programs that are focused on world betterment and world problems. As a mark of our global leadership, we should commit a greater percentage of our resources to this effort than any other organization.

3.     Hold ourselves to a high standard of compliance around global treaties that aim for collective benefit and the redress of economic, environmental, military, and political problems. Our adherence should be exemplary. Or, if we truly question the merit of a global accord, we should lead the way in creating agreements that even better serve the global interest rather than simply ignoring or undermining the existing attempts.

4.     Exert strong global leadership on multinational solutions to pressing health, environmental, and other problems. We should propose innovative new solutions and show leadership in carrying them out, especially in areas such as clean energy development.

5.     Take seriously the process of coming clean by exposing corporate interests in politics, lobbying by powerful organizations, subsidies of fringe military groups, etc. When our global government officials commit to be honest and transparent, a much deeper foundation of international trust will be built.