The Scale is a balancing process to sustain all life on the planet now and future generations

Concerning sections 1, 2, and 3, it shall be Global Community highest priority to guarantee these rights to Member Nations and to have proper lesgislation and implement and enforce global law as it applies.

Section  1.    Ecological rights and the protection of the global life-support systems
Section  2.    Primordial human rights

•     safety and security
•     have shelter
•     'clean' energy
•     'clean' and healthy environment
•     drink fresh water
•     breath clean air
•     eat a balance diet
•     basic clothing
•     universal health care and education
•     employment for all

Section  3.    The ecological rights, the protection of the global life-support systems and the primordial human rights of future generations

Concerning Sections 4, 5 and 6, it shall be the aim of Global Community to secure these other rights for all global citizens within the federation of all nations, but without immediate guarantee of universal achievement and enforcement. These rights are defined as Directive Principles, obligating the Global Community to pursue every reasonable means for universal realization and implementation.
Section  4.    Community rights, rights of direct democracy, the right that the greatest number of people has by virtue of its number (50% plus one) and after voting representatives democratically.
Section  5.    Economic rights (business and consumer rights, and their responsibilities and accountabilities) and social rights (civil and political rights)
Section  6.    Cultural rights and religious rights

Scale of Global Rights definition

Definition of the Scale of Global Rights

On the Scale of Global Rights primordial human rights and the protection of the global life-support systems (ecological rights) are on top of the Scale. They are the most important aspects on the Scale. For instance, the existing and future uses of water are constantly challenged; balancing supply and demand is made even harder by the amounts of pollution found in the air, land and waters. A large part of our body is made of water, and we cannot live without water; therefore water is a primordial human right by our very nature. In order to avoid conflicts and wars over drinking (fresh)water, fresh water has been categorized as a primordial human right. Industrial pollution plays a major role in the deterioration of nature but this time the level of pollution is above the carrying capacity of a healthy ecosystem. Pollution also affects significantly human health and all lifeforms on Earth. Every person needs Oxygen to live so clean air is certainly also a primordial human right by our very nature.

Control over the amounts of greengases produced by human activities and let go into our air must be paramount to governance and management of Earth.The production of greengases involves the destruction of the Oxygen in our air and its replacement by CO2, a deadly chemical. CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere have been measured at an altitude of about 4,000 meters on the peak of Mauna Loa mountain in Hawaii since 1958. The measurements at this location, remote from local sources of pollution, have clearly shown that atmospheric concentrations of CO2 are increasing. The mean concentration of approximately 316 parts per million by volume (ppmv) in 1958 rose to approximately 369 ppmv in 1998. The annual variation is due to CO2 uptake by growing plants. The uptake is highest in the northern hemisphere springtime. Today in 2013, the concentration is 400 ppmv. And after all the dirty tars sands oil of Alberta has been consumed, the concentration will be over 600 ppmv, i.e. the end of civilization as we know it, and the end of most lifeforms on the planet.

We need a clear vision. We need a common vision. And we must all change! There are many important aspects of our lives we can no longer do, or should never do anymore. They are destructive. Humanity and all life can no longer afford activities that destroy life and the global environment. And there are other activities we must do, certainly thousands of them, to assure the survival of life on Earth.

In view of this planetary state of emergency we all must change, we must do things differently to give life on Earth a better survival chance. Perhaps the Scale of Global Rights represents the strongest pillar of our vision. In 1985, the Scale of Global Rights was first proposed as a replacement to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. After several decades of research and development, many global dialogues, we still find the Scale as the best solution to global problems.

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The Greenhouse Effect, the human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases, is the explanation about how Global Warming was created all over the planet. Global warming is the long-term heating of Earth’s climate system observed since the pre-industrial period due to human activities, primarily fossil fuel burning, which increases heat-trapping greenhouse gas levels in Earth’s atmosphere. Climate Change is a long-term change in the average weather patterns that have come to define Earth’s local, regional and global climates. The "cause" is global warming, one of the major "effects" is climate change.

Today, we are presenting once more the Scale as the best educating tool to bring about the change the people of the world need to achieve for their own survival. Now the Scale of Global Rights is a long term solution and is also a part of the Global Movement to Help of Global Community. In itself the Scale was designed to help all life on Earth. What would be preferable is that nations unite amongst themselves to help. Over time, we have seen the creation of the United Nations, the European Union, the South American Community of Nations, and the North American Free Trade Agreement. Except for the UN, these organizations are mainly concerned with trade and economics. Global Civilizational State offers a more meaningful union in the form of nine or more Global Governments. For instance the South American Community of Nations can be a Global Government by simply accepting the Global Constitution as a way of dealing between member nations. A Global Government is concerned not only with economics and trade, but also with the environment, health, agriculture, energy, food, social, cultural and many other essential aspects. The Federation of Global Governments would be the place of meeting between Global Governments. The very first step of the Federation, and maybe the only one, would be the approval of essential services amongst the participating member nations. Global Community has researched and developed such services and listed them here. All of them are already in operation on a small scale.

To act as a global policing force, as the GPA aspires to do, many foundations must be laid, especially regarding the move from wielding power derived from Global Civilizational State to legitimate global leadership. There are many required characteristics that are prerequisite for legitimate leadership: 

• 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.

The defence function of a leader requires that he safeguard the good of the whole by whatever the most skillful means are to accomplish that defence.  While that is not a comprehensive catalog of leadership prerequisites, I do think those few requirements are foundational and relatively unquestionable. Without at least a solid foundation of those requirements, the GPA’s actions among nation-states will remain those of a unilateralist leader rather than a global leader. We will be, and should be, legitimated in the role of a global leader among nation-states and validated as an enforcer of global law. Global Civilizational State offers a few recommendations for actions that would strengthen and legitimate the GPA’s role as a true global leader by gradually creating an international structure that better safeguards the whole than we can ever do now as a unilateralist leader.  The GPA recommendations: 

• 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.

As we enact global law, we will begin to take on a much deeper kind of global leadership, one that earns more respect than envy and more gratitude than hatred, one that can catapult the whole planet forward into a future where war is no longer thinkable between nation-states and a legitimate and beneficial global government is able to cope with global problems.  I believe that there is no greater task in the world today than for GCEG to proceed through the maturation of its leadership, emerging from a more self-interested adolescence as a global leader into a nobler adulthood. We have the potential to act as a torchbearer for a better tomorrow. Do we heed the call? I hope this message has convinced at least a few people that the question of how to proceed with that maturation is of far deeper significance than the reforming of the United Nations. I thus pray that we move with wisdom, grace, clarity, and love in the days, years, and even decades ahead. 

In the past, security was thought as better accomplished through military means. Expanding the military capabilities and forming alliances with other nations were the only way to 'win'. Today wars are unlikely to produce winners. Global Community is all over the planet. Ethnic groups are everywhere. Wars truly make no sense! The world is too crowded and too small nowadays! And weapons too lethal! So security cannot be achieved through the military. The only job the military should be asked to do today is to protect the global life-support systems.

These systems have the highest priority on the Scale of Global Rights and are certainly more important than any of the other rights on the Scale including security. Simply because without life there is no other right possible. Without Oxygen there is no life! Without clean water there is no life! So protect life on Earth at all costs. Wars are the biggest threat to life and the ecosystem of the planet. Primordial human rights come next on the Scale of Global Rights. Without a shelter life will still exist in some places but is not possible in cold place.

So security must be achieved by other means than wars. We might as well shelved the war industry from humanity right now and that means phasing out all nuclear, biological, chemical weapons right now. No waiting! That also means having inspectors verifying the phasing out in all nations of the world. The nature of global security has changed since the rise of Global Community. Security used to be about the protection of the state and its boundaries, people, institutions and values from an outside threat. Global Community emphasizes as a priority the prohibition of external interference in the internal affairs of sovereign states.

Essential services are the services and functions that are absolutely necessary, even during a pandemic. They maintain the health and welfare of the municipality. Without these services, sickness, poverty, violence, and chaos would likely result.

Once approved, Global Protection Agency will have powers, issued by Executive and Ministerial order, that include the means to secure critical supply chains, ensure people have access to essential goods and services to keep society running, and make sure critical infrastructure and materials are readily available to support response and public safety.

While each community will need to determine what its essential services are, here are some examples:

• Executive governance (the mayor, or his/her designee, who is in charge and has the authority to make executive decisions and enact policies), business regulators and inspectors

• Education and research

• Pharmaceutical and medical supply product production, manufacturing and distribution, and medical research

• Sanitary product manufacturing

• Education institutions, for providing remote learning or other essential functions

• Information and communication technologies

• Healthcare, public health, hospitals, and pandemic control

• Cleaning services necessary to provide and maintain disinfection

• Fire and police protection and other first responders

• Law enforcement and justice

• Provision of clean water

• Businesses that provide materials and services for the operation, maintenance and safety of transportation systems (road, transit, rail, air and marine)

• Basic sanitation, including sewage, garbage removal and wastewater management

• Maintenance of communication infrastructure (e.g., telephone system, radio, internet, and postal)

• Maintenance of utilities (e.g., gas and electricity)

• Facilities critical in supporting certain daily needs steam, alternative energy, industrial recycling, oil and fuel

• Care and residential facilities for seniors, adults, children or individuals with disabilities

• Provision of food and other essential goods, establishment of supply chains, food banks

• Disaster management

• Mining operations, mineral exploration and development, and mining supply and services

• National and cross-border freight carrier intermodal transportation between nations where special standardized containers are used for transport of cargo on trucks, freight trains, and ships.

• Road maintenance/repair

• Natural resources management

• Protection of the global life support sytems and environment

• Environmental cleanup and response

• Earth ecosystems protection

• IT (information technology) workers for certain facilities including medical facilities, governments facilities, banks, employees working from home to manage the transfer or other use of information through computers or computer systems, and to test, build, install, repair, or maintain the hardware and software associated with those complex computer systems in one or more locations.

• Banking

• Professional services including lawyers, paralegals, engineers, accountants and translators

• Payroll departments and public works

• Critical manufacturing,

• Tax collection

  Essential goods are the food and other supplies that a municipality needs to survive, such as medical supplies and gasoline.

  Essential workers are the personnel needed to maintain essential services.

Table of Contents of short and long term solutions to saving the world.

As a first step, all nations can and should approve the first three sections on the Scale of Global Rights. The approval would supersede the political and physical borders of participating member nations. The Global Protection Agency (GPA) would have the approval from all member nations to give immediate help, bypassing normal government protocols. Somewhat like an emergency unit but at the global level. That is what those first three sections mean. They represent an efficient and immediate emergency response to help. First, participating member nations need to give their approval to the GPA. The GPA is a global organization much like the World Trade Organization (WTO) for trade between nations, the World Health Organization (WHO) for health, or the European Union, North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFT), South American Community of Nations (SACON) for trade and economics. The GPA offers an efficient emergency response to help. The GPA is a short term solution, an immediate and efficient response to help.

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Proceedings of Global Dialogue

Proceedings of Global Dialogue 2020 (September 1st, 2019 to August 31, 2020) are ready for reading. Please do verify that your articles, comments and papers were correctly published, and that recommendations were appropriate, useful, pertinent, and proper. Authors of research papers and articles on global issues for Global Dialogue 2020 were published in the Dialogue Overview section at

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Artwork by Germain Dufour
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Authors of research papers and articles on global issues for this month

David Anderson, John Scales Avery(2), Medea Benjamin, M K Bhadrakumar(2), Farooque Chowdhury, Climate And Capitalism, Jonathan Cook, Stan Cox, Countercurrents Collective(2), Finian Cunningham(3), Bharat Dogra(2), Nicolas J S Davies, Tom Engelhardt, Pepe Escobar(2), Ron Forthofer, Andrew Glikson, Chris Hedges, Michael Hudson, Robert Hunziker, Anthony Mathew Jacob, Irwin Jerome, Caitlin Johnstone(2), Pooja Kalra, Mahboob A Khawaja, Michael T Klare(2), Peter Koenig, Renu Kohli, Sergey Lavrov, Tom Murphy, Sandeep Pandey, Paul Craig Roberts, Yang Sheng, David Sparenberg(2), Li Xuanmin, Bai Yunyi.

David Anderson, Premier Xi Jinping’s Geopolitical Methane Hydrate Feedback Loop Challenge in Climate Change.
John Scales Avery, Ecology And Economics.
John Scales Avery, Water.
Medea Benjamin, How the United States Helps To Kill Palestinians in Palestine.
M K Bhadrakumar, The China-Iran pact is a game changer – III
M K Bhadrakumar, China on the horizon as ‘world’s pharmacy’in World.
Farooque Chowdhury, Language and people.
Climate And Capitlism, Indian monsoons becoming more chaotic.
Jonathan Cook, In our hurry to conquer nature and death, we have made a new religion of science.
Stan Cox, Earth Abuse and the Next Pandemic.
Countercurrents Collective, Climate change will be disastrous even after latest world pledges, says report.
Countercurrents Collective, The Arctic’s greening won’t save us.
Finian Cunningham, Global Britain, Global Delusions.
Finian Cunningham, China & Russia Vaccines Defeat Cold War Virus.
Finian Cunningham, Victory’s Test of Time.
Bharat Dogra, Land May Be A Deeply Philosophical Issue But Must Face Practical Realities of This World.
Bharat Dogra, Narrow Response to Crisis Situations Which Ignores Basic Causes Will Not Resolve The Crisis.
Nicolas J S Davies, Denis Halliday: A Voice of Reason in an Insane World .
Tom Engelhardt, Slaughter Central.
Pepe Escobar, Putin rewrites the law of the geopolitical jungle.
Pepe Escobar, Putin, crusaders and barbarians.
Ron Forthofer, The sad saga continues: occupation and oppression of Palestinians.
Dr Andrew Glikson, The Origin of the Northern Freeze.
Chris Hedges, The Age of Social Murder.
Michael Hudson and Paul Craig Roberts, It Is Time To Remove The Debt Barrier ToEconomic Growth.
Robert Hunziker, Poisoning the Planet’s Web of Life.
Anthony Mathew Jacob, Palestine, to whom does it Belong?
Irwin Jerome, Four Intersecting Pandemics Threaten Continuation of Life.
Caitlin Johnstone, My Experiments With Hacking Capitalism.
Caitlin Johnstone, All Of Humanity's Problems Are Caused By A Lack Of Awareness.
Pooja Kalra, Sheikh Jarrah: History shows that empires have colluded to legalise ‘settler colonialism’ in Palestinian territories in Palestine.
Dr Mahboob A Khawaja, Global Humanity Paralyzed by COVID-19 Pandemic and Politics of Conflicts Looks for Change and Unity.
Michael Klare, Will There Be Resource Wars in a Renewable Future?
Michael T Klare, Will There Be Resource Wars in a Renewable Future?
Peter Koenig, Gaza – US and the West Supports Israel’s Crimes Against Humanity – Understanding the Never-Ending Conflict. in Palestine.
Dr Renu Kohli, Birds and Biodiversity : The Pillar of life on Earth.
Sergey Lavrov, The time has come to do away with medieval and colonial habits.
Tom Murphy, Ultimate Success.
Sandeep Pandey, Change In Worldview Need Of Hour.
Michael Hudson and Paul Craig Roberts, It Is Time To Remove The Debt Barrier ToEconomic Growth.
David Sparenberg, POEM to the EARTH.
David Sparenberg, Every Day Is An Earth Day: Suggestions for Living in an Ecozoic Future.
Yang Sheng, Li Xuanmin and Bai Yunyi, China-Russia partnership 'key to balance US hegemony'

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