Global Civilization vision of the world in year 2024.

*     the preservation of ethnicity;
*     equitable treatment, including gender equity;
*     security;
*     protection against corruption and the military;
*     earn a fair living, have shelter and provide for their own welfare and that of their family;
*     peace and stability;
*     universal value systems;
*     participation in governance at all levels;
*     access the Earth Court of Justice for redress of gross injustices; and
*     equal access to information.

Land and nations
Water and nations
Clean air and nations
Food supplies
Our overpopulated planet
Status of primordial human rights
Status of community and social rights
Status of cultural rights
Status of religious rights
Status of civil and political rights
Status of business and consumer rights

North America 
America has to make major changes. The United States are the world's largest consumer, largest producer of greenhouse gases, and role
model for much of the developing world. By not ratifying the Kyoto Protocol, the United States are losing credibility as a leader nation. Without
major changes, by 2020 the total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions will increase by 40%, raising temperatures by 3.5 degrees Celsius during
the century.

Countries in Latin America & the Caribbean
There is too much political instability, guerrillas, paramilitaries, and drug dealers. Farmers are constantly being displaced and thus the land is
not being used efficiently. Brazil is the world's leading nation for biodiversity and rainforest conservation. 

Africa
Strategies in Africa for the protection of the global life-support systems must include poverty, biodiversity loss, low investment rate, AIDS and
social equity. These strategies must have funding from external organizations and must also obtain immediate economic benefits.

Europe
Western Europe is making real progress toward a sustainable development, yet its consumerism, bureaucracy, unemployment, and social
intolerances are unsustainable. In Central and Eastern Europe ethnic conflicts and widespread crime make it hard to achieve sustainability.
The European Union (EU) carbon dioxide output dropped 0.5% between 1990 and 2000. All six main gases believed to be responsible for
climate change were down 3.5%.

Asia & Oceania
Eventually China will surpass the U.S. in greenhouse gas emissions. It must create new approaches to sustainable development. India loses
10% of its GDP per annum because of natural resource degradation.


Democracy

North America
The United States has served as a model of democracy to many nations but now they have lost credibility on several grounds:

* by not ratifying the Kyoto Protocol, they have shown a total disregard to the protection of life on Earth. What good is democracy when the existence of life on Earth is being threatened by CO2 pollution? All democratic systems are required to be responsible and accountable to humanity. The Scale of Human and Earth Rights places life on top of the Scale and is the most important right to be protected.
* systematically planning and invading other nations either through their military or through their corporations and institutions, and for the purpose of controlling or taken over a nation's resources for profit and self-interests.
* american elections are becoming more corrupted by money and special interest lobbying, advertising and campaign contributions

Countries in Latin America & the Caribbean
Less than 50% of citizens vote. Democracy does not have a solid ground for growth. Free-market democracies in the region must include social justice and equity as a way of life. Unless America includes the Scale of Human and Earth Rights and the Charter of the Earth Government to govern the newly proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas(FTAA), than we will see a collapse of democracy in the region, civil wars and the rise of dictatorships.

Africa
There are only 20 of the 53 African nations with electoral democracies. Authoritarian regimes in the region have been successful because of strong ethnic groups and religious fundamentalism. Dictators might yield their power if they had secure retirement. May be an 'African Council of Elders' composed of former heads of state could be created to advise Africa.

Europe
Democracy implies not just the mechanics of free and fair elections but the ability of different political parties to choose and, if elected, to implement their freely chosen manifestos. On the face of it, this may appear to be the case. But we need to probe a little deeper. In Britain, there were protests in Genoa, Gothenburg, Davos and at almost every other major summit meeting since Seattle in December 1999. And this disaffection is just the festering tip of a very large iceberg. For underlying these high-profile protests lies a widespread and deepening public disengagement from party politics as evidenced by ever-lower voter turnouts in elections around the world. This is something Tony Blair should know well, having himself been re-elected by only 42% of the vote with a turn-out of just 58%; the lowest since 1929. That means only 25% of those eligible voted for him. So why all the disaffection when the mechanics of democracy seem to be in good working order? European democratization will require the expansion of the EU to the East and South. Unless genuine democracies are created, the former authoritarian regimes of Central and Eastern Europe may come back.

Asia & Oceania
There are 24 of the region's 39 nations with electoral democracies. Japanese appear indifferent to democratic issues in other nations because democracy was forced into them. Much of Asia supports autocratic governments. China provides stability to its 1.3 billion people.

Health

North America
Global travel is a major factor affecting North America. Infectious diseases can be easily brought into the region. Food imports increase vulnerability to infections from overseas. The widespread use of antibiotics is responsible for the growth of microbial resistance. Biotechnology has made real progress but still need responsible use and a greater understanding of ethics. Multidrug therapies have reduced significantly AIDS deaths. SAR is spreading in Toronto and Vancouver.

Countries in Latin America & the Caribbean
Underfunded public health systems are inadequate and with too much emphasis on bureaucracy and politics. Tuberculosis and HIV are growing and so are many other communicable diseases.

Africa
Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for almost half of all deaths from the full range of infectious disease worldwide. Because of AIDS, life expectancy is 47 years. Children made orphans by AIDS usually turn to crime to survive.

Europe
The health systems in Central and Eastern Europe are deteriorating. All of Europe is facing problems such as AIDS, mad cow disease and inflenza. Migration is a factor in spreading diseases.

Asia & Oceania
Except for Japan and Australia, Asia and Oceania countries have communicable diseases increasingly widespread and out of control. SAR has is spreading in several cities.

Women's rights

North America
Single-mother households are raising one third of the children living in poverty in the United States. Corporations must allow women and men equally to advance in the business.

Countries in Latin America & the Caribbean
These nations have the highest rates of maternal mortality. Governments must change laws about rape, sexual harassment, and equal pay for women.

Africa
Women are not considered for jobs outside the home. The situation can be improved by:

a) increasing enrollment of girls in all levels of education
b) help women entrepreneurs
c) give women access to credit
d) offering women better health care services
e) let women have equal job opportunities than men, equal pay for equal work

Europe
Few women are in top management positions in business. Stressful social and financial pressures force women to work very hard, and thus they have no time to raise children.

Asia & Oceania
It is expected that the changing status of women will improve democracy and equality. Rural women in India are working more to stay in the same place. In Japan women have a high economic and social status.

Our overpopulated planet

North America
The United States are the only industrial nation with a fertility rate at or above the replacement level of 2.1 children per woman. North Americans need to be educated on the impacts of an aging population and immigration on the economy and resources. The average American consumes about 50 times more resources than the average Indian. North American consumers obtain resources at a cost lower than the true value and at the expenses of less economically fortunate regions.

Countries in Latin America & the Caribbean
There is a rapid urbanization of the region due to migration from rural areas and by high fertility among new arrivals in urban settings. About 54 million people are hungry in the region. Political unrest is caused by a disproportionate income gap.

Africa
Africa's population is expected to grow from 13% of the world's population in 2000 to 20% by 2050. Africa has major management problems in all areas. In fact, much of the urban management class is being reduced by AIDS. AIDS orphans grow up in crime groups and join armed conflicts over natural resources. Several major global problems can be resolved by:

* promoting one or two child per family
* increase income
* improve literacy
* insure protection of new born children
* educate men and women to family planning and let them be equal partners in all aspects of life
* make men and women use of inexpensive contraceptives with easy access to them
* promote a more healthy and rewarding lifestyle with just one child per family
* expanding women's opportunities
* access to high-quality reproductive health services
* community-based natural resource management practices and security of land tenure

Europe
Its population is expected to fall from 12% of world's population in 2000 to 7.1% by 2050. Future benefits for an aging population will therefore be difficult to provide. The EU is enforcing the U.N. decisions on development in the region. More conflicts with immigrants are expected.

Asia & Oceania
Because of its low birth rates, by 2080 Japan's population will be half of what it is today. Low birth rates are also seen in Australia. About 60% of all Arabs are under 25 years old with very little employment. In China, 7% of the population is older than 65. Its annual population growth rate is 1.07% and its fertility rate is 1.82 %. When translated in absolute numbers, the increase causes major challenges to social and economic development.

F) USA invasion: China is next after North Korea

Everyone asks so now what is next? Is invading Irak and Afghanistan a signal to the end of the invasion of the Middle East by America? Is North Korea part of the invasion? Was getting their hands on the best oil and gas in the world the only reason of the invasion of the Middle East by the USA?

What is next? Who is next?

China is next. We all knew that from the beginning. Americans need a playground for wars. They want their television screens live filled with war stories. Another 'Cold War' is on the horizon. It will be good for the American economy. Imagine the money the war industry will be making with the break up of China, a stable nation economically and politically, a government that can keep over 1.2 billion people living together peacefully. And Russia has a land with more pristine natural resources than all other nations in the world put together. Oil and gas, untouched wilderness, vast quantities of clean drinking water, uranium, tungsten, nickel, copper, gold and diamonds are among them. These mineral resources remain largely untouched, for the same reasons as the Arctic's fossil fuel resources.

And America along with European nations all have their eyes on Russia natural resources because those nations have always been invaders and warmongers and never had any respect for the protection of the Earth ecosystems and global life-support systems which must be included in all trade negotiations with Russia. They would rather go to war with Russia and destroy all life on Earth.

Over past centuries, America along with European nations nations have always been at war with one another and the world to grab whatever they could whatever the costs. WWII is an obvious example of European nations trying again to destroy Russia (the USRR), Germany being the worst warmonger, and the other European nations and America watching Russian people fighting for their land and livelihood being destroyed. After seeing Russian people fighting and defeating the German Army, Hitler Red Army troops, and winning the war without any Allies help, then Allies decided it was time to finally show up and fought the remaining small German trops left over in Europe. Over 20 million Russian lives were killed and much of the URSS land and livelihood destroyed by the European Hittler army. But the so called "Allies" never stop being what they truly are: invaders and warmongers, and they still have their eyes on Russia's natural resources. Because Allies economies has always been based on the manufacturing of war products and therefore always creating conflicts and wars in the world grabbing other nations natural reources in the process.

G) Mines and mining the impacts

A study made by Global Civilization 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; and
*    encourages poor regions to yoke their futures.

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.

In year 2024, the American dollar is no longer the world currency for business and trade. China has now moved towards a BRICS "gold marketplace", a "new financial architecture". Gold has become a major commodity everyone wants to buy. Russia and China have established systems to do multi-trillion yuans global trade bypassing the US dollar. The USA dollar is losing values to the yuan which is progressively replacing the US dollar's reserve status with the new Chinese gold-backed system. And a Russian version of Visa/ MasterCard is being used in at least 90 percent of ATMs in Russia and are able to operate in the form of the Mir payment system.

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.

In year 2024, 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.

H) World energy demand

In year 2024, world energy demand can be largely fulfilled by renewable energy technologies. There is however a strong opposition to change arising from the fossil fuel industry and from governments of most oil-producing nations and major fossil fuel users such as the United States and Britain.

There are significant advantages of shifting away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy and toward greater reliance on renewables. Decreasing the impacts of global warming is certainly the most significant advantage. Global carbon emissions must be reduced at least 70% over the next hundred years to stabilize atmospheric CO₂ concentrations at 400 parts per million (ppm). The sooner societies begin to make the transition from fossil fuels to renewables, the lower will be the impacts and the associated costs of both climate change and emissions reductions.

Other costs of conventional energy production and use are:

1.    degradation of the environment through resource extraction;
2.    air, soil, and water pollution;
3.    acid rain;
4.    biodiversity loss;
5.    fuelling of the war industry, and therefore a threat to peace and Earth security and, in consequences, a threat to the global life-support systems;
6.    global economic losses due to natural disasters are in line with events anticipated as a result of global warming;
7.    nuclear power is one of the most expensive means of generating electricity and is responsible for nuclear accidents, weapons proliferation, and nuclear waste problems;
8.    political, economic and military conflicts over limited resources such as oil become more important as demand increases;
9.    reliance on fossil fuels create less jobs; renewables create four times more jobs; and
10.    fossil fuels do not bring electricity in many poor countries but renewables can; no electricity means no access to education, clean water, improved health care, communications, and entertainment.

The United States represents 25 percent of current global emissions, and 36.4 percent of industrial-country 1990 emissions. Withdrawal from negotiations on the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement dealt a blow to Global Civilization efforts to battle climate change.

Global Civilization is interested to enact renewable energy policies that:

a)    are consistent and long-term to allow industries and markets to adjust;
b)     provide access to the electric grid ;
c)    educate and inform the public;
d)    encourage individual and cooperative ownership of projects;
e)    establish standards; and
f)    incorporate all costs in the price of energy sources.

I) The sustainable use of drinking water

There is a need to add a sociological, political and anthropological dimension to current debates on the sustainable use of water in the Mediterranean region: Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Egypt, Israel, Syria, Jordan, Crete, Lebanon, Malta and Iraq. More specifically, the impacts of human activities on the management of water supplies can have on local populations.

In year 2024, Global Civilization has developed and implemented 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.

J) The global concept of land ownership

In year 2024, Global Civilization has re-defined the basic concept of "land ownership", starting with the principle that the land and all natural resources on 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.

In year 2024, Global Civilization has made possible to shift public finance off private property and onto common heritage property. From the local to the global level we need to shift taxes off of labor and productive capital and onto land and natural resource rents. In other words, we need to privatize labor (wages) and socialize rent (the value of surface land and natural resources). This public finance shift will promote natural monopolies (infrastructure, energy, public transportation) that should be owned and/or controlled or regulated by government at the most local level that is practical.

The levels of this public finance shift can be delineated thusly: municipalities and localities to collect the surface land rents within their jurisdiction. Regional governing bodies will be asked to collect resource rents for forest lands, mineral, oil and water resources; the global level needs a Global Resource Agency to collect user fees for transnational commons such as satellite geostationary orbits, royalties on minerals mined or fish caught in international waters and the use of the electromagnetic spectrum.

An added benefit of this form of public finance is that it provides a peaceful way to address conflicts over land and natural resources. Resource rents should be collected and equitably distributed and utilized for the benefit of all, either in financing social services and/or in direct citizen dividends in equal amount to all individuals.

In year 2024, a portion of revenues was transferred from the lower to the higher governance levels as needed to ensure a just development pattern worldwide and needed environmental restoration.

K) The adoption of world sustainable development

In year 2024, Global Civilization promotes the adoption of world sustainable development and for strong international cooperation to achieve this goal. Global cooperation can facilitate native people's acceptance of rational policies, financial assistances and advanced technologies provided by the international community, and that international cooperation also can contribute to regulating world population distribution, improving low population quality of backward countries, protecting and exploiting natural resources, developing those products and industries which can cause lower consumption of natural resources and energy sources with light pollution of environment, and keeping environmental stability and ecological balance. In a word, international cooperation greatly contributes to world sustainable development.

L) Religion and conservation

In year 2024, most conservationists now believe that it is essential that there be comprehensive discussion not only of environmental policies, but also of the ethics underlying environmental protection. Global Civilization looks at the importance of the environment in the main sources of Islamic instruction, namely the Koran and Prophet's Hadiths (teachings). These texts turn out to be on the side of conservation, the emphasis being on respect for creation, the protection of the natural order and avoidance of all wasteful activities which may cause injury to the environment. These positions are contrasted with the views expressed by political Islam, which has become influential in a large part of the Muslin world and rejects the conservation measures advocated by Western writers.

Over the past decades, the recent rapid increase in human population has shown that the planet is no longer able to sustain everyone. Many major global problems, such as greenhouse gases, global warming, and pollution, are aggravated by the population expansion. Global Civilization has declared that the world is overpopulated. Humans are now threatening other species worlwide. The species extinction crisis is out of control as we are losing 40,000 species per year.

We must alert and organise Global Civilization to pressure world leaders to take specific steps to solve the two root causes of our crises: exploding population growth and wasteful consumption of resources. Overconsumption and overpopulation underlie every major global problem we face today.

As human population continue to grow, finite reources such as fossil fuels, phosphorous, grain, fish, freshwater, arable land, coral reefs, forests, and other lifeforms species continue being depleted.

While many people understand that population growth must cease if humanity is to survive, no action has been taken on a world-wide basis which will insure that population growth is reduced to a minimum. Global Civilization is declaring a moratorium on world population, the fertility rate and immigration applications all over the world, on all applications for immigration, until applicants from any religious or cultural background have satisfied completely Global Civilization standard for a population fertility rate of 1.3 children per family. The problem with world overpopulation is everybody’s problem. Until tangible progress is made no immigrants should be accepted. That is Global Law.

Overpopulation is a form of population warfare. It is the use of a very high fertility rate to conquer a nation, and that could mean as many as or more than 2.1 children per family. It is a form of cultural and/or religious aggression and invasion by having a much too high number of new born babies. For instance, there has been a rapid increase in population among Muslims to the extent that in 20 years all of Europe and North America are expected to be mostly Islamic. The influx of Latino immigration into the western states of the USA will also have the effect of a population warfare.

Now, obviously what immigration does is to infringe into the most important rights on the Scale of Global Rights: Sections 1, 2, and 3. It amounts at creating and stressing the world overpopulation problem which is way far more destructive than conducting military warfare. Global Civilization condemns all types of warfare we see in the world today: military, economic and population. Surely the rights to protect the existence of all life on our planet are more important than cultural and religious rights. Sections 1, 2 and 3 on the Scale of Global Rights are certainly more important than Section 6.

No one can feed, educate, and take care of a family with a large number of children. Simply said: if you cannot feed a human family of too many members, dont do it, it is better to refrain from making children. Think of the world population today and in the coming decades, as a family with already far too many members. We all know world population on our planet as over reach its safe and secure capacity. Our human family is breaking down, suffering, crying, hungry, dying, tortured, and in great danger of extinction. Our human family is out of control, abused, taken advantage of by the 1% of its members, and by promoting democracy and human rights destructively.

To reduce consumption levels in industrialised nations, natural resource management would need to be at the forefront of policymaking, and economic growth based on unlimited consumption can no longer be the goal of government policy. Much would also need to be done to let go the culture of consumerism; and private and public investments must be shifted to sustaining a low-carbon infrastructure.

In year 2024, after having established a Commons Trust Fund, reduced world population and global consumption, natural resources are now accessible to people in all nations, all global communities, consumed within planetary limits and preserved for future generations.

M) Earth governance: responsibility of managing Earth

Global Civilization believes that we have the responsibility of managing Earth. The partnership of government, civil society, and business is essential for an effective Earth governance based on global concepts, the Scale of Global Rights and Global Constitution.

One cannot talk about the governance of the Earth without talking about the most influential bodies or institutions of the world that actually govern or rule the world today, or have the power to change it and actually do change the world in many different ways. During roundtable discussions we will talk about global issues concerning the United Nations, the major global economies or planetary economic blocks, the richest people and corporations on the planet, the IMF, the World Bank, the WTO, religions, the debt of the developing nations, the restoration of the planet, Earth ecosytems, and the global life-support systems. And of course we will also talk about sound solutions to global problems. And all issues will also be discussed further in Monthly Newsletters throughout Global Dialogue 2018 (September 1st 2017 to August 31st 2018).

N) The war industry is the mother of all evils

Let us define what Global Civilization means by the "war industry". The war industry comprises all persons (a person can be an organization such as a government, a business, a non-government organization, an institution such as a university or an institute of technology, or it can be a professional, an individual, or the like) directly or indirectly related to the research, engineering, production, manufacturing, promoting, selling, use of war products, war equipment, war ships, war planes, or the like. The USA military is also a part of the war industry and must also be shelved, mothballed, forever from humanity. Conflicts and wars are often created for the exploitation of natural resources and are financed by tax payers of a country, for the purpose of making a profit and protecting self-interests. The war industry will use every mean possible to survive as an industry. Tax payers are picking up the tab.

Greed is what drives belonging or being involved with the war industry. By making an astronomical profit through the selling of arms, war products and equipment to all of the Middle East countries, including Iran, Irak and Afghanistan, and by sucessively calling these old friends their new enemies and terrorists, and destroying their countries, America and Great Britain have shown that they could never be trusted. The only American interests in the Middle East are the cheap crude oil and the protection of Israel. The Jews come first even if it mean to fight and annihilate the entire Islamic Civilization with nuclear war heads. If you have any doubt that they would do such an atrocious crime, ask the people from Japan.

Throughout the 20th Century, the war industry has created the worse evil humanity has ever encountered: the business of conflicts and wars. It is a business that has made trillions of dollars (American) and will continue to do so. It has no moral value, no understanding about Life, no respect for anyone or anything, no law except the ones that it makes for itself, and all its products are meant to kill and destroy. It has sold its products to the enemies for the purpose of making more profit. It has subdued governments all over the world to make them buy its products. It has given trade and way of doing business a bad reputation and, therefore, it is a threat to the establisment of business. Although the war industry has a good public image, it does not really matter who is the buyer as long as the buyer pays good money.

The war industrial uses oil and gas for everything from exploration work, mining, production, war products manufacturing, war ships and planes building, to conflicts and war themselves. This industry is the worst ever polluter of greenhouse gases by a long shut than any other industries and human activities worldwide put together. In large part, this industry has created the global warming of the planet and is destroying the global life-support systems. Even America has been since WWII, and still is in 2024, right on top the owner of that industry.

Global Civilization promotes the abolition of nuclear weapons for security, sustainability and justice in a nuclear free future.

The "war industry" throughout the world must be put to a complete halt and shelved forever from humanity. Global Civilization is asking all peoples never again to buy there products. The war industry is the "Mother of all evils in the world". All persons working, directly or indirectly, for the war industry, are responsible and accountable to humanity for anything happening to their products after they are sold. Ethical and moral values no longer touch people involved with the war industry. They dont think that are actually responsible and accountable for spreading evil all over the world. They think they are "good people", good citizens. Every single bullet you manufacture you are responsible and accountable for it, all of you from the President to the employee on the industrial line. Society holds responsibility and accountability as well. And if that bullet happened to be a nuclear war head then it becomes even more imperative to held the manufacturer and the people involved responsible and accountable.

It is the same idea for any consumer products of any industry. You manufacture, produce, mine, farm or create a product, you become 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).