Links to conferences, projects, NGOs

A typical global community may be what a group of people, together, wants it to be. It can be a group of people with the same values. It can be a group of people with the same cultural background, or the same religious background. Or it can be people with different values, cultural background or religious values and beliefs. The people making a global community may be living in many different locations on the planet. With today's communications it is easy to group people in this fashion. It can be a village, or two villages together where people have decided to unite as one global community. The two villages may be found in different parts of the world. It can be a town, a city, or a nation. It can be two or more nations together. A global community could be a group of Africans, maybe NGOs, or maybe businesses, in one(or several) of the nations of Africa, who decided to unite with another group(s), or businesses, situated in Canada, or elsewhere in the world. Together they can grow as a global community and be strong and healthy.

A global symbiotical relationship between two or more nations, or between two or more global communities, can have trade as the major aspect of the relationship or it can have as many other aspects as agreed by the people involved. The fundamental criteria 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.

The emphasis of a global symbiotical relationship is not so much on how much money a nation should have or how high a GDP should be although money can be made a part of the relationship. We all know developed countries live off developing countries so the emphasis has no need to stress out the profit a rich nation is making off a poor nation. The emphasis of the relationship should give more importance to the other aspects such as quality of life, protection of the environment and of the global life-support systems, the entrenchment of the Scale of Human and Earth Rights and the Charter of the Earth Community into our ways of life, justice, peace, cultural and spiritual freedom, security, and many other important aspects as described in the global ministries (health, agriculture, energy, trade, resources, etc.).

To become a member of the Global Community you can be:

*     a global community
*     a town, city or province
*     a state or a nation
*     a business
*     an NGO
*     a group of people who decided to unite for the better of everyone participating in the relationship
*     an international organization

Any of these groups can formed together a global symbiotical relationship.

The Global Community has begun to establish the existence of the New Age Civilization of the 3rd Millennium, the age of symbiotical relationships and global cooperation. An economically base symbiotical relationship exists between nations of the European Union. Other types (geographical, economical, social, business-like, political, religious, and personal) may be created all over the world between communities, nations, and between people themselves. There has always been symbiotical relationships in Nature, and between Souls and the matter of the universe to help creating Earth and life on Earth to better serve God.

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 its goals? The Charter of the Earth Community promotes the values to achieve its goals. These goals require 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.

Other symbiotical relationships may be based on common concerns and issues such as: the environment, peace, justice, women's rights, human and Earth rights, and many more. There is a whole spectrum of possible symbiotical relationships.

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

A global symbiotical relationship between nations is more than just a partnership, or an economical agreement such as the WTO. The WTO is about a trade partnership between nations. Of course it is a bad idea to be a member of the World Trade Organization ( WTO). There are no advantages! It just does not work for anyone except when you have an army to knock down any member who does not do your five wishes and plus. A membership in the WTO is not needed and nations should instead seek relationships with fewer other nations only if needed. Certainly it is better to seek an economic relationship with another nation we can trust than with a hundred nations we have no control on and everyone of those nations has a say in the governing of our nation, its environment and social structure. The WTO only offers illusions to profit the few wealthiest people on Earth. They say "become an industrialized nation as we are". But that is the biggest illusion of all. To become an industrialized nation is far from being the best solution. The best way and solution for any nation is to follow the Scale of Human and Earth Rights. Right on top of the scale are the ecological rights, the global life-support systems, and the primordial human rights of this generation and of the next generations. Economic and social rights come next and are not the most important. That makes a lot of sense! The effect of IMF and World Bank policies in the world caused the destruction of the economies of the poor nations (now we call them 'developing' countries). They impoverished the people by taking away basic services and devaluating their currency. They opened up the national economy to be ravaged by competition with richer nations. Poverty lead to other problems causing the ecological destruction of a poor nation.

On the other hand, a global symbiotical relationship between two or more nations can have trade as the major aspect of the relationship or it can have as many other aspects as agreed by the nations involved.

The Global Community is inviting you to participate in the formation of global symbiotical relationships between people, institutions, cities, provinces, communities, nations, businesses, or a combination of them. We are also proposing the formation of a political symbiotical relationship between state and the global civil society. A similar relationship already exists between the people of the Global Community, also known as the human family, the global civil society.

Global ministries are a very specific and useful type of symbiotical relationships on Earth. There are urgently needed. The Global Community has been promoting the formation of 51 global ministries for the proper governance of Earth.

Global ministries are world wide organizations just like the WTO for trade and therefore should have the same power to rule on cases as that of the World trade Organization (WTO).

A new symbiotical relationship between religion and the protection of the global life-support systems has begun to take place all over the world. Religious rituals now support the conservation efforts and play a central role in governing sustainable use of the natural environment.

Major faiths are issuing declarations, advocating for new national policies, and creating educational activities in support of a sustainable global community. The Global Community is establishing a symbiotical relationship between spirituality and science, between our heart and mind, and God, between religion and the environment.

The human family is finding its role in the universe, a higher purpose and a meaning. We now can celebrate life.

A sustainable world can be built with the help of a very powerful entity: the human spirit. Community participation generates the energy needed to sustain the planet and all life. Religious and environmental communities have formed a powerful alliance for sustainability.

The Global Community Citizenship is given to anyone who accepts as a way of life the Criteria of the Global Community Citizenship. You will be required to take oath.

Criteria of the Global Community Citizenship
Copyright © 2003 Earth Community Organization

1. Acceptance of the rights and responsibilities of a person belonging to 'a global community' and to 'The Global Community', the Earth Community, the human family. That is, to take such a stand has four parts:

a) I am not just a woman, I am a person, I am citizen of a global community,
b) I am not just a man, I am a person, I am citizen of a global community,
c) We are responsible, accountable and equal persons in every way and,
d) We are citizens of The Global Community, the Earth Community, the human family.

We need to take this stand for the survival of our species.

2. Acceptance of the concept of 'a global community'. The concept of 'a global community' is part of the Glass Bubble concept of a global community. The concept was first researched and developed by the Earth Community Organization (ECO). Then it was further researched and developed by Earth Government and results obtained were published by in February 2003 Newsletter.

We have already said that 'a global community' is not about a piece of land you acquired by force or otherwise. A typical global community may be what a group of people, together, wants it to be. It can be a group of people with the same values. It can be a group of people with the same cultural background, or the same religious background. One could think of a typical global community of a million people that does not have to be bounded by a geographical or political border. It can be a million people living in many different locations all over the world. The Global Community is thus more fluid and dynamic. The Global Community is this great, wide, wonderful world made of all these diverse global communities. We need to let go the archaic ways of seeing a community as the street where we live and contained by a border. The people making a global community may be living in many different locations on the planet. It can be a village, or two villages together where people have decided to unite as one global community. The two villages may be found in different parts of the world. It can be a town, a city, or a nation. It can be two or more nations together.

3. Acceptance of the Scale of Human and Earth Rights. To determine rights requires an understanding of needs and reponsibilities and their importance. The Scale of Human and Earth Rights and the Charter of the Earth Community were researched and developed by the Global Community to guide us in continuing this process. The Scale shows social values in order of importance and so will help us understand the rights and responsibilities of global communities.

Scale of Human and Earth Rights

* Ecological rights and the protection of the global life-support systems
* Primordial human rights
* The ecological rights, the protection of the global life-support systems and the primordial human rights of future generations
* Community rights and the right that the greatest number of people has by virtue of its number (50% plus one) and after voting representatives democratically
* Economic rights (business and consumer rights, and their responsibilities and accountabilities) and social rights (civil and political rights)
* Cultural rights and religious rights

4. Accptance of the Charter of the Earth Community. The Charter of the Earth Community is a declaration of interdependence and responsibility and an urgent call to build a global symbiotical relationship between nations for sustainable development. It is a commitment to Life and its evolution to bring humanity to God. Earth Community has focused people aspirations toward a unique goal: humanity survival now and in the future along with all Life on Earth. The "Belief, Values, Principles and Aspirations of the New Age" of the Charter are closely interrelated. Together they provide a conception of sustainable development and set forth fundamental guidelines for achieving it; they were drawn from international law, science, philosophy, religion, and they were discussed as research papers during the global dialogues.

5. Acceptance of your birth right of electing a democratic government to manage Earth. The political system of an individual country does not have to be a democracy. Political rights of a country belong to that country alone. Democracy is not to be enforced by anyone and to anyone or to any global community. Every global community can and should choose the political system of their choice with the understanding of the importance of such a right on the Scale of Human and Earth Rights. On the other hand, representatives to Earth Government must be elected democratically in every part of the world. An individual country may have any political system at home but the government of that country will have to ensure (and allow verification by Earth Government) that representatives to Earth Government have been elected democratically. This way, every person in the world can claim the birth right of electing a democratic government to manage Earth: the rights to vote and elect representatives to form Earth Government.

6. Acceptance of the Earth Court of Justice as the highest Court on Earth.

A Certified Corporate Global Community Citizenship is a unique way to show the world that your ways of doing business are best for the Global Community.

You can obtain the citizenship after accepting the Criteria of the Global Community Citizenship and following an assessment of your business. The process shown here is now standardized to all applicants. You are then asked to operate your business as per the values of the citizenship. As a business you may:

a)     be a corporate Knight
b)     be a socially responsible investor
c)     have taken the challenge of a more integrated approach to corporate responsibility by placing environmental and community-based objectives and measures onto the decision-making table alongside with the strategic business planning and operational factors that impact your bottom-line results
d)    provide not only competitive return to your shareholders but you also operate your business in light of environmental and social contributions, and you have understood the interdependence between financial performance, environmental performance and commitment to the community
e)     have taken a full life-cycle approach to integrate and balance environmental and economic decisions for major projects
f)     have an active Environmental, Health and Safety Committee and integrated codes of conduct, policies, standards and operating procedures to reflect your corporate responsibility management
g)     have scored high on categories such as:

* environmental performance
* product safety
* business practices
* commitment to the community
* employee relations and diversity
* corporate governance
* share performance
* global corporate responsibility
* health, safety and security
* audits and inspections
* emergency preparedness
* corporate global ethical values
* standards of honesty, integrity and ethical behaviour
* in line with the Scale of Human and Earth Rights and the Charter of Earth Community
h)     support a balance and responsible approach that promotes action on the issue of climate change as well as all other issues related to the global life-support systems:

* global warming
* Ozone layer
* wastes of all kind including nuclear and release of radiation
* climate change
* species of the fauna and flora becoming extinct
* losses of forest cover and of biological diversity
* the capacity for photosynthesis
* the water cycle
* food production systems
* genetic resources
* chemicals produced for human use and not found in nature and, eventually, reaching the environment with impacts on Earth's waters, soils, air, and ecology

But now we want to help you be an active corporate member of The Global Community, the human family, the Earth Community.

Apply to us to be a corporate citizen of the Global Community, the Earth Community, the human family.

You do not need to let go the citizenship you already had before. No! You can still be a citizen of any nation on Earth. But now you are a better human being as you belong also to the Global Community, and you have now higher values to live a life, to sustain yourself and all life on the planet.

You have become a person with a heart, a mind and Soul of the same as that of the Global Community.

Once you have taken the oath you have accepted rights and responsibilities that come with the citizenship.

Rights and responsiblities have been described in the August 2003 Newsletter. (http://globalcommunitywebnet.com/earthgov/NewsE.html)

Letter to Louise Arbour, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights

Dear Louise Arbour, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights:

I would like to congratulate you on your new appointment as High Commissioner for Human Rights. The United Nations General Assembly has approved a great new member. You succeeded Sergio Vieira de Mello, who was killed in a terrorist attack in Baghdad last August. My condolences to the people of Rio de Janeiro for their loss. And I wish the best for this four years term.

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is to raise awareness of human rights and fundamental freedoms and to publicize ways of promoting and protecting them at the international level. Another aim is to encourage debate on human rights issues under discussion in United Nations bodies. The mission of OHCHR is to protect and promote all human rights for all.

The United Nations vision is of a world in which the human rights of all are fully respected and enjoyed in conditions of global peace. The High Commissioner works to keep that vision to the forefront through constant encouragement of the international community and its member States to uphold universally agreed human rights standards.

It is your role to alert Governments and the world community to the daily reality that these standards are too often ignored or unfulfilled, and to be a voice for the victims of human rights violations everywhere. It is also your role to press the international community to take the steps that can prevent violations, including support for the right to development.

OHCHR is guided in its work by the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and subsequent human rights instruments, and the 1993 Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action. The promotion of universal ratification and implementation of human rights treaties is at the forefront of OHCHR activities.

OHCHR aims to ensure the practical implementation of universally recognized human rights norms. It is committed to strengthening the United Nations human rights programme and providing the United Nations treaty monitoring bodies and special mechanisms established by the Commission on Human Rights with the highest quality support.

The High Commissioner for Human Rights is the official with principal responsibility for United Nations human rights activities. OHCHR is committed to working with other parts of the United Nations to integrate human rights standards throughout the work of the Organization.

Having siad all of that you know already, perhaps now you wonder what this letter is about.

First of all I would like to invite to participate in Global Dialogue 2004. I am sure the Global Community would gain a lot from your knowledge, experience and sound judgement.

What issues could be of interests to you?

3.    Criteria to obtain the Global Community Citizenship.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
4.    The statement of rights and responsibilities of a person and of belonging to 'a global community' and to 'The Global Community', the Earth Community, the human family.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
5.    Results of comparing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and charters of nations around the world with the Scale of Human and Earth Rights.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
16.    Earth Court of Justice.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
21.    Humanity scale of social values.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
28.    Preventive actions against the worst polluters on the planet and those who destroy the global life-support systems.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
35.    Community rights on the Scale of Human and Earth Rights.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
46.     Justice is for everyone, anywhere and anytime.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]
54.    Cities and global communities: power to govern themselves, rights and responsibilities.[ Articles published ] [ Participate ]

The Global Community would really want your participation.

The Earth Court of Justice will hear cases involving crimes related to the global ministries. It will have the power to rule on cases involving crimes related to each one of the ministries.

The Earth Court of Justice has listed America as the first nation to be prosecuted for a global environmental crime. You could get acquainted with this problems by reading our press release and June Newsletter. And certainly this Newsletter will take you right to the heart of the problem. Because the leader of the USA was responsible for not signing the Kyoto Protocol, President George W. Bush will be first to appear in Court. The reality here is that every American is on trial here. A large majority of the consumers in USA are also responsible for producing the deadly gas causing global warming and climate change, and they are all on trial. The same goes for every person on Earth producing the deadly gas. The gas is just as deadly as the gas that murdered millions of Jews during World War II. It is even more deadly as it is destroying the global life-support systems of all life on Earth. We are killing billions of human beings and countless life species. Americans have closed their conscience to the reality of life on Earth. Justice must prevail to stop the "killing fields". And therefore they are guilty as charge.

The invasion of Iraq is another crime against humanity. Ever September 11 the Global Community has opposed the invasion. Americans have invaded Iraq to steal their oil and gas. Read the President's message about this issue. Oil and gas production will only last for another 30 to 50 years. They need the fossil fuels to feed the american economy, their war industry (about 50 million Americans live off the industry directly or indirectly). Their vision of the world is a world ending with the end of fossil fuels. Whoever will have the biggest guns at that time will survive. America is financially bankcrupted with a national debt of over 6 trillion dollars and will never pay it back because they know it does not matter. At least it wont matter 50 years down the road. The world will be under tremendous natural and human stresses only 30 years from now. Money wont mean anything. Guns will mean survival. That is the vision of America. It is their vision on how they want to survive and what they will do to survive. Democracy and human rights dont mean anything unless you belong with those who have the biggest guns.

The Global Community has a different vision of the world now and 50 years from now. Our vision is very much in tune with most nations of the world.

Prosecuting criminals on the basis of universal jurisdiction regardless of a territorial or nationality nexus required a solid commitment of political will from national governments and the Global Community.

Once in effect, the Earth Court of Justice will become the principal judicial organ of the Earth Community. The International Court of Justice was found powerless and inadequate to deal with crimes other those crimes dealing with genocides. On the other hand, the Earth Court of Justice will have a dual role: to settle in accordance with international law the legal disputes submitted to it by national governments, local communities, and in some special cases by corporations, non-government-organizations and citizens, and to give advisory opinions on legal questions referred to it by duly authorized organs and agencies.

The Court will be composed of judges elected by the Elected Representatives Council and Earth Security Council. It may not include more than one judge of any nationality. The Members of the Court do not represent their governments but are independent magistrates. The judges must possess the qualifications required in their respective countries for appointment to the highest judicial offices, or by jurists of recognized competence in international law. The composition of the Court has also to reflect the main forms of civilization and the principal legal systems of the world.

The Earth Court of Justice will hear cases involving:

* nation states
* national political and military leaders accountable for violations of international humanitarian law
* 'core' crimes of genocide
* crimes against humanity and human rights
* war crimes
* crimes with significant impacts perpetuated against the life-support system of the planet (for instance wars and use of weapons of widespread destruction are listed under this category)
* crimes related to the relentless misuse of the Earth Resources
* environmental crimes
* social crimes as the Court may see apply
* crimes stemming from the global ministries

The Earth Court of Justice will also rule on global problems and concerns such as the creation of a new nation in the world, and disputing territories or land between nations.

The procedure followed by the Court is defined in its Statute. The Court decides in accordance with:

* the Scale of Human and Earth Rights,
* belief, values, principles and aspirations of the New Age,
* international treaties and conventions in force,
* international custom,
* the general principles of law and,
* as subsidiary means, judicial decisions and the teachings of the most highly qualified publicists.

The Statute of the Earth Court of Justice will be established later.

The Earth Court of Justice established by the Charter of the Earth Community as the principal organ of the Earth Community shall be constituted and shall function in accordance with the provisions of the Statute.

The Earth of Justice will handle environmental damage cause by the U.S. military action. The Earth Community has classified the damage as a criminal liability for military personnel and/or their contractors. The war industry has become a liability to humanity.

Transnational organized crime has become so powerful that it can affect significantly the ability of governments to act. It is estimated that about 5% of the global economy, that $1.6 trillion per year, is laundered through the international financing system. A solution to reducing organized crime is to decriminalize drugs and put drugs under state control. Much more should be done to identify sources and target money-laundering locations, create an international agreement to establish a registration system for major financial transactions, share information on financial transactions, and coordinate prosecuting strategies. All banks would be required to cooperate or be frozen out of the international system. The international body would be able to freeze criminal assets prior to conviction and the transfer of assets after conviction.

Perhaps you wonder what you could do to help human rights. You could help by participating in Global Dialogue 2004. Help us promote the Scale of Human and Earth Rights, and the criteria to obtain the Global Community Citizenship.

Letter to all Canadians concerning the Kyoto Protocol and climate change

Dear fellow Canadians:

Over the past several years our research team at the Global Community Assessment Centre (GCAC) has shown over and over again that global warming is here, our climate is changing rapidly, and we need to act now. The planet is getting warmer. Ratifying the Kyoto Protocol was only a first step to protect our global life-support systems. Much more has to be done.

To a politician, a week is a long time. To an economist, thirty years is the 'long term'. As you have seen during the federal election, politicians and economists deal only in desperately trivial twinklings of time. To a pessimistic person, in the long run we are all dead so why bother. To a religious person, we are all here on Earth for the glory of God but eternal life is after we passed away so why bother.

Why bother?

Why will it matter whatever we do now on Earth when eternal life is next? This is also a pessimistic view. Many people think that way. It just seems that life is defeated before even trying to fight for our survival. Unless God gives these people new Revelations about the worth of managing Earth than life does not stand a chance.

When we think about life on Earth we must think as a matter of course in very long periods of time. Whatever happen in this 3rd Millennium, which we have called the New Age Civilization of the 3rd Millennium, will depend of us and to what degree we are willing to make a difference to manage wisely Earth, our home. Will our actions be geared to survive a decade, a hundred years, a thousand years, or a million years? If our actions were geared to survive a million years, the chances are that we would learn to master great things including harnessing the sun flare energy, interstellar travel, genetic engineering, and reajusting the planetary position of another planet in our solar system to initiate a new life on its surface. Is it not worth to make sacrifices now?

A sound governance of the Earth is needed for the long term survival of our species. This is 'la raison d'etre' of the Earth Community Organization (ECO). ECO has proposed the creation of global ministries to manage Earth and humanity's global problems. Security is on top of the Scale of Human and Earth Rights.

History can help us understand ourselves and what is happening to us, and our impact upon the rest of the world, only when we look at ourselves on the grand scale of time. As members of families, we note the passing generations. Historians traditionally deal in centuries. For the most part we are unaware of the deep rhythms that lie beneath naturally occurring events, rhythms that must be measured in millennia, or in millions of years, or in tens of millions of years. We have a huge effect upon all life on Earth and the fabric of the planet itself yet we are vaguely aware of the rhythms. From an engineering point of view that is totally unacceptable. If Earth was seen as a spaceship with specific life-support systems, to think of those rhythms would be of outmost importance. The knowledge and understanding of the rhythms would determine our policies now, today. Even though our lives are so brief, a million years should be a proper unit of political time. Politicians would become in a way engineers who can think not only a week at a time but can also think ahead a million years. The world needs 'engineer politicians' with the highest integrity of judgment.

We all know we are rapidly wiping out our fellow species on Earth. We tend to think that this present-day destructiveness is just an anomaly and that in the fullness of time the world will settle down again into some form that may be slightly different from the present but nonetheless agreable. Not so! By changing the climate as we do we influence the ecology and evolution of the whole world for the rest of time. It is important to understand that the way climate behaves, the extreme of which it is capable of, and the ways in which it can be influenced. Yet when we look at our own history as human beings and briefly at the 100 million years or so of prehistory, we see how dangerous this complacency is, the sheer precariousness of our existence and of all other lifeforms.

Small events today can have huge global consequences that can change the flora and fauna of the whole world. Some people at least are bothered now by global warming and know that nothing can ever be the same again. But what is the cause of it? Just a rise in concentration of a gas in the atmosphere that in any case is present in barely more than a trace. That is all it takes to change the climate of the world. When we look at our own history and prehistory we see this very effect in action and the results. Without such effects, this time in reverse, that is, a loss in greenhouse gases rather than a gain, our own species probably would not have come into existence. Earth as it stands now is a miraculous jewel of a place, an oasis in an infinitely hostile and diverse universe, Shangrila. Nothing says that this Shangrila will ever come back again after we have destroyed it.

We are just beginning to see what a dangerous game we are playing. More specifically we begin to see how inadequate it is to think only in short periods of time, and to be satisfied with politics and policies of economics that deal only with the here and now. Over the past several years ECO has fought the economic systems of the world requiring that the FTAA, the EU and the WTO be governed by the Scale of Human and Earth Rights and the Charter of the Earth Community. The Scale was designed for the survival of our species and that of other lifeforms we want to take along with us over a period of one million years.

Peace in the world is a state of being at peace within ourselves. Justice keeps us at peace. When there is no justice, human rights, peace and security are threatened and war is often thought as the only solution. ECO believes that the United States have not accepted the principle of justice for all in humanity. They have already objected to have their military be subjected to the international court. They want a special treatment over and above the other nations of the world. As far as they are concerned, Justice is only for the other nations not for the US. So it is no wonder that war is at the horizon. The US can break the laws but not the other nations. There is no justice! This means Americans dont feel at peace within themselves because they are guilty of something terrible. We all know what this is. The whole world knows Americans have planned to invade the Middle East nations and other nations as well ever since they coerced the United Nations in creating the State of Israel, the Jews of Israel being their Trojan Horse. Americans are invaders, nation predators, just as the British were in the past. They will not stop at the Middle East, we all know China is their next target. If they get what they want, they will make Adolf Hitler look like a kid in the block. There will never be Peace this millennium. The September 11 event was a desperate response to this threat, and yes of trade issues as well but then what is trade when the US military is left out of Justice? What is trade when the US military is taking over a nation's resources?

We could calculate the impact of the greenhouse gas emissions due to the invasion of Iraq by Americans.

Iraqi oil production can be as much as 3.7 million barrels/day or 1.35 billion barrels/year. The US has taken away this oil from the Iraqi people to feed its own economy back home and the war industry (approximately 50 million Americans live off the war industry).

1.35 billion barrels x 123 kg/barrel = 0.246 trillion kg CO₂ / year

Counting 4 years of invasion so far yield 0.984 trillion kg CO₂ / year to be added to the US total of CO₂ greenhouse gas emissions:

8.130 trillion CO₂ emissions + 0.984 trillion = 9.114 trillion CO₂ emissions in year 2005

This shows that the act of plundering Irak of its resources include its gas emissions as well. Makes a lot of sense!

Iraq contains 115 trillion barrels of proven oil reserves along with 100 billion barrels in probable reserves. That will add quite a large amount of CO₂ emissions due to the America alone. We should also add the carbon emissions and greenhouse effect that will be created by the burning of the Iraqi natural gas. Iraq contains 110 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of proven natural gas reserves, along with roughly 150 Tcf in probable reserves. Iraq can possibly peak to a production of 700 billion cubic feet of natural gas per year. Now if anyone has any doubt about why Americans have invaded Iraq... and no Americans will not give the oil back to Iraqis.

The invasion of Iraq is another crime against humanity. Ever September 11 the Global Community has opposed the invasion. Americans have invaded Iraq to steal their oil and gas. Read the President's message about this issue. Oil and gas production will only last for another 30 to 50 years. They need the fossil fuels to feed the american economy, their war industry (about 50 million Americans live off the industry directly or indirectly). Their vision of the world is a world ending with the end of fossil fuels. Whoever will have the biggest guns at that time will survive. America is financially bankcrupted with a national debt of over 6 trillion dollars and will never pay it back because they know it does not matter. At least it wont matter 50 years down the road. The world will be under tremendous natural and human stresses only 30 years from now. Money wont mean anything. Guns will mean survival. That is the vision of America. It is their vision on how they want to survive and what they will do to survive. Democracy and human rights dont mean anything unless you belong with those who have the biggest guns.

Trade has no meaning except when the US is getting richer at the expenses of all other nations, including Canada, and at the expenses of the global life-support systems. The US is willing to disregard global warming as 'the major threat to the world' today, to all life on Earth. The risk is insane! America has lost credibility as a leader nation. America needs to be told with action that global warming is here and now. America needs to be told that all the oil in the world and all the Saddam Husseins in the world don't matter if we do not protect our global life-support systems.

Fellow Canadians, we need to be tougher than we can ever be and imagine. Humanity needs a leader nation with integrity. Let us be that leader! Kyoto is only a beginning. There is a whole lot more work to do to save humanity and all life from extinction. As far as the US are concerned they lost their mind, heart and Soul. Dont follow into their steps. There is a chance that they might follow into ours. As far as an action to be taken to bring America in line with the rest of the world, close the Canadian border from coast to coast to coast to all consumer products, goods and services going back and forth, and triple the prices of oil, natural gas, coal, electricity, wood products, food products, water being sold to America, until they have agreed and taken all actions to resolve the problem with global warming and peace in the world and that means no war. God hope they do! We have a chance to be a great leader nation and as a Canadian I want us to be even greater. God blesses us all! I prey God to give us strength.

Letter to the Prime Minister of Canada, Paul Martin

Dear Prime Minister Paul Martin:

I have noticed your political platform and thought helping you and other liberals on very important issues.

Liberal platform
A Canada in which no individual and no region is denied the opportunity to participate fully in the building of the nation.
A Canada with safe and healthy neighbourhoods, with clean air and water and plenty of green spaces.
A Canada that is a world leader in developing and applying path-breaking technologies for the environment
A Canada that succeeds in building globally competitive firms - from start-ups to multi-nationals

Competition wil only be good when corporations, the business world, has accepted the new way of doing business and be the Certified Corporate Global Community Citizenship.

New way of doing business.

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 the global concepts of the 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!

A Canada built on innovation with world-class research universities, smart regulation and innovative financing - all combining to make Canada a leader in the commercialization of bright ideas.

Well I am giving you innovative and bright ideas to make Canada sustainable in all aspects of life and protect global life-support systems. It cost me to research and develop these new ideas. When will the Government of Canada and Canadian institutions (universities, research centers, etc.) be doing the same without asking for tax dollars? How can you put a dollar value on saving humanity, all life? How can you or anyone say to all Canadians 'We get value for your money' when what is at stake here is saving all of us, all life? Money is paper. You can print money anytime you want. But you cannot redo life on Earth. And every time you print money you destroy a forest. Forests absorb CO₂ and produce O₂. Every time you print money you destroy the global life-support systems by a small amount. How can you do that?!? When will you and the printing industry, newspaper and book publishers understand simple survival on Earth? In just a few decades the full impact of the melting of the Artic permafrost will double the concentration of CO₂ in the troposphere so every tree count. And it has to be an undistrubed, mature tree, a tree that can produce a net sink for carbon. I know you have never learned these basic understandings in high school but now you have been told, and you should act accordingly. On the Scale of Human and Earth Rights the protection of the global life-support systems comes first as the most important issue. It is more important than the health care issue as there will be no human being around on Earth without the Oxygen in the air and with a high concentration of carbon dioxide. Beside the problem with the health care system is that most of the money put into it pays salaries. People are asking too much money and most of time that money is used to pollute the environment and destroy the global life-support systems. People are just being greeded and refuse to understand simple survival on this planet. Sir, you have to hammer in the proper values and what really has to be done to protect them from themselves. They are out of control!

A Canada where there are supports to help people balance work and family responsibilities so that all Canadians, especially women, have the opportunity to participate fully in the workplace.

That is good! Get them out of the bedrooms. We have no need of more children. The world is overpopulated. Do you know the impact of 6 billion people on the planet to just breating out every second? As a life-form we inhale and exhale air. That is we burn O₂ and exhale CO₂. Every second! The amount is astronomical. And so is the respiration of all plants and animals on the planet. Just astronomical! So we have no need of increasing our population. If it was about balancing the tax dollars for a better economic growth you would understand what I am saying here. Just think of this as balancing the life equation on this planet for our survival as a species, for the survival of all life. It is a crime not to! Use the scale of social values to guide you. Surely you have no problem understanding that there are things more important than others. Security is more important than cultural, political or religious rights. Without security you could not enjoy many other rights. Without a shelter you would be at the merci of the elements. Without food you would die. What I am saying is that the protection of the global life-support systems and primordial human rights come first as the most important rights on the scale. Over time humanity has side-track from values concerned with the survival of the species to values designed to make life more enjoyable and better quality. Well being or wellness! Now is time to give more importance to basic survival values such as the primordial human rights as we our going through the worst of times never experienced before by life on the planet.

The Liberal vision calls for:

A world where Canada speaks with an independent voice for the values of freedom, social justice. A world where the benefits of global interdependence are spread more fairly, thus alleviating hunger, poverty and disease. A world where this growing interdependence - whether from trade, from security threats, or from global environmental challenges like climate change and overfishing - is managed by truly effective international cooperation and problem solving. A world where the international community accepts an obligation to protect people from deadly oppression by their own government. What happened in Rwanda and Bosnia, and in other dark instances throughout history, is simply unacceptable. We need new rules to make it clear when international intervention is justified to protect citizens from tyranny.

The Earth Court of Justice has listed America as the first nation to be prosecuted for a global environmental crime and the invasion of Iraq. In our view crimes against humanity include those actions that destroy the global life-support systems and crimes agaisnt the primordial human rights of a nation such as the invasion of Iraq. You could get acquainted with this problems by reading our press release and June Newsletter. And certainly this Newsletter will take you right to the heart of the problem. Because the leader of the USA was responsible for not signing the Kyoto Protocol, President George W. Bush will be first to appear in Court. The reality here is that every American is on trial here. A large majority of the consumers in USA are also responsible for producing the deadly gas causing global warming and climate change, and they are all on trial. The same goes for every person on Earth producing the deadly gas. The gas is just as deadly as the gas that murdered millions of Jews during World War II. It is even more deadly as it is destroying the global life-support systems of all life on Earth. We are killing billions of human beings and countless life species. Americans have closed their conscience to the reality of life on Earth. Justice must prevail to stop the "killing fields". And therefore they are guilty as charge.

THE LIBERAL POLICY
The Liberal government has already made significant progress, with the following initiatives and activities:

Ratified the Kyoto Protocol on climate change, as well as the United Nations Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants;

Over the past year, the liberal government has been consistently vague on Kyoto and made the environment ministry the target of some of the largest cuts to pay for tax reductions for oil and coal companies. And over your corporate life, Sir, your company was the Great Lakes’ largest shipper of coal, a fossil fuel which changes the climate and causes smog faster than any other fuel, and you plan on giving away emission credits to corporations for free. Who will protect us against your kind of tyranny?

Announced in 2003, a five-year, $2 billion initiative to address the climate change challenge. This includes $1.7 billion over five years to support partnership, innovation and targeted measures to promote energy efficiency, renewable energy, sustainable transportation and alternative energy sources;

How is it possible that you help the oil and gas industry with tax breaks and incentives. You should be taxing the industry not giving it a break. It goes against the Kyoto agreement to be helping the industry. Regulations should be enforced and new ones made to apply the 'Polluter Pays Principle'. You should also have a plan to force the vehicle manufacturing industry abandon gasoline engines for cleaner ones.

Announced a 10-year, $3.5 billion program to clean up federal contaminated sites, augmented by a $500 million program for the remediation of certain other sites, notably the Sydney tar ponds;
Launched the $120 million Clean Air Action Plan, a 10-year regulatory road map promoting cleaner vehicles and fuels, reduction of smog-causing emissions from industrial sectors, and expanded public reporting by industry on pollutant releases;
Develop environmental and sustainable development indicators, in collaboration with Statistics Canada, so as to improve Canada’s ability to measure its progress on improving the environment.

Indicators have already been developed and sustainable development measured. We have obtained "E" for Canada, where E was defined as meaning an "unsustainable development, and there is a need to take immediate actions and totally different approaches in line with a sustainable development"

Letter to the Leader of the Opposition Stephen Harper

Dear Leader of the Opposition Stephen Harper:

I have noticed your political platform and thought helping you and other conservatives on very important issues.

The Conservative platform would:

A) Increase power over spending for the Auditor General

B) Make sure that an ethics commissioner is appointed by Parliament

C) Elect Senators

D) Fix election dates

E) We will become an environmental world leader by focusing on clean air, clean water, clean land, and clean energy

F) Canadians must demand better stewardship for their environment. They must demand a government that will be less interested in flashy announcements at inter-national conferences, and more interested in environmental results.

G) A Conservative government will work with Canadians to address real environmental problems and develop a long-term vision for a healthy, sustainable environment as a trust for future generations.

H) Legislate caps on smog causing pollutants like Nitrogen Oxide (NOx), Sulphur Dioxide (SO2), and Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC). Negotiate power plant and smokestack emissions limits with the United States and border states. Investigate a cap-and-trade system that will allow firms to generate credits by reducing smog-causing pollutants.

Redirect federal spending aimed at fulfilling the terms of the increasingly irrelevant Kyoto Protocol to concrete programs to ensure clean air, water, and land, and to promote energy conservation.

A belief that the quality of the environment is a vital part of our heritage to be protected by each generation for the next.

All of your sections dont have substances. Just generalities! Where is the beef someone would say. It shows you dont understand Canadians and their needs. Your Conservative Party has been around for a long, long time. I have recognized a lot of Alberta conservatives during your leadership convention and the federal election campaign. Except for new younger faces, nothing has changed. So you thought let us give Canadians a one page political platform with no substance and have our friends from the media polish our image on television, and abracadabra we will create a majority government. While this way works in the U.S.A. where Americans prefer electing Holliwood actors or the like, here in Canada we dont. We want a leader who can understand Canadians. You dont! Governing Canada takes more than wearing a cowboy hat and be in front of the parade with a smile on your face. Like your counterpart in Alberta, Ralph Klein, said many times. You would be better running for Premier of Alberta. Furthermore, from what I understand of your western born Conservative Party, Westerners are more likely to be the cause of the break-up of Canada than are Easterners. Jo Clark probably understood the same and left you guys.

Lettre au chef du Bloc Québécois, Gilles Duceppe

Cher monsieur Gilles Duceppe, chef du Bloc Québécois,

Je veux vous suggérer des choses à faire par rapport à votre plate-forme électorale.

La plate-forme électorale du Bloc Québécois
Le Bloc veut construire des logements sociaux pour les démunis.
Proposing that the federal government set aside 1 % of its expenses, or $2 billion per year, for the development of social housing.

This is great! Having a shelter is a primordial human right. On the Scale of Human and Earth Rights, primordial human rights is second in importance than the protection of the global life-support systems. Makes a lot of sense.

Proposing the implementation of the Kyoto Protocol so that it is fair for Quebec and based on the principle of polluter-pays.

The protection of the global life-support systems is the most important aspect and is on top of the Scale.

Demanding a surtax on the profits of large oil companies. Il ne faut pas favoriser l ’industrie pétrolière à même nos impôts.

Il faut également relever le défi du développement durable du Québec, ce qui signifie prendre des décisions en se posant la question suivante: dans quel état voulons-nous laisser notre pays aux générations suivantes? Des investissements en éducation, dans les énergies renouvelables comme l ’éolien.

Le cinquième défi que doit relever la nation québécoise est celui de la construction du monde dans lequel on vit. Le Québec est handicapé par son absence des forums internationaux où siègent les pays souverains. Mais cela ne doit pas nous empêcher de participer aux débats internationaux. C’est un des rôles les plus importants du Bloc à Ottawa. Nous défendons sur la scène internationale les valeurs québécoises de solidarité et de justice.

Nous vous invitons à participer au Global Dialogue 2004. Vous àtes bienvenue.

Par contre, les interventions armées unilatérales, l’illégalité internationale et la doctrine «préventive »de l’ad- ministration Bush ne constituent une réponse ni légitime,ni efficace. Il en va de même du projet de Bouclier antimissile auquel le gouvernement de Paul Martin a décidé de participer. Cela aura plutôt pour conséquence d’intensifier les risques posés à la sécurité internationale et à la paix.

À cet égard, il est impératif de modifier le cours actuel de la mondialisation qui, trop souvent, mène à la pauvreté une grande partie de la population mondiale. L’ouverture au commerce et la création de règles internationales pour contrer le protectionnisme et protéger les investissements sont une bonne chose à laquelle le Bloc Québécois adhère. Cela ne signifie pas que les règles commerciales doivent avoir préséance sur le bien commun et la capacité des États à redistribuer la richesse, protéger l’environnement et la culture et assurer des services publics fondamentaux comme la santé et l’éducation à leurs citoyens.

Le développement durable du Québec consiste à prendre des décisions qui permettent de développer l’économie et la société durablement en agissant sur les éléments fondamentaux de notre vie collective. Ces éléments fondamentaux sont l’éducation, la culture,l’environnement, l’économie et l’emploi. Le contexte qui se dessine à l’aube du 21 e siècle favorisera les sociétés qui réussiront à agir posi- tivement sur chacun de ces éléments fondamentaux.

Faites attention ici! Except for the environment, all your fundamental aspects are found at the bottom of the Scale of Human and Earth Rights. This show how far out your la société québécoise s'est agrandi. Il n'y a pas d'échelle de valeurs dans votre plate-forme électorale. Tout est égale é tout.

La mise en œuvre du Protocole de Kyoto. Les contradictions de l’approche canadienne.
À la suite d’une longue bataille du Bloc Québécois à la Chambre des communes, le gouvernement fédéral a enfin ratifié le Protocole de Kyoto, le 17 décembre 2002. Cette ratification signifie que le Canada s’engage à ramener ses émissions de gaz à effet de serre (GES) à un niveau inférieur de 6% à ce qu’il était en 1990.

Si le Bloc Québécois a accordé une si grande importance à la ratification du Protocole de Kyoto, c ’est qu ’il est convaincu de deux choses:

• Il est urgent, pour le Québec et le Canada, de contribuer à la lutte contre les changements climatiques en réduisant leurs émissions de GES; et
• Le Québec peut en tirer un important avantage économique.

Malheureusement, les décisions prises par Ottawa jusqu ’ici favorisent l’industrie des hydrocarbures et font en sorte que les émissions de GES du Canada vont continuer d ’augmenter plutôt que de diminuer au cours des prochaines années, tandis que le Québec sera pénalisé pour son bilan positif,plutôt que d ’en être avantagé. Le gouvernement libéral a adopté l’approche du «pollueur-payé »,plutôt que celle du pollueur-payeur.

Dans ces conditions, on voit mal comment le Canada pourra remplir ses engagements internationaux. Car le principal facteur de croissance des gaz à effet de serre au Canada depuis dix ans, c’est la production et la combustion de pétrole, de charbon et de gaz naturel.

Le plan d’action d’Ottawa: recette pour un désastre
En novembre 2002, le gouvernement a produit le Plan du Canada sur les changements climatiques. Ce plan, qui laisse toujours un trou de 60 mégatonnes (MT) d’émissions de GES, vise les mauvaises cibles et est particulièrement injuste pour le Québec.

La mauvaise cible des libéraux.
Le Plan du Canada sur les changements climatiques épargne largement l’industrie de la production des hydrocarbures et cible le Québec et ses industries manufacturières. Il comprend un système de cible de réduction totalisant 55 mégatonnes pour les plus gros pollueurs, ce qui est peu.

Rappelons par exemple que le secteur de l’énergie est à lui seul est responsable de 98,7% de la hausse des émissions de gaz à effet de serre depuis 1990. Le gouvernement fédéral fait donc fausse route, en voulant faire porter le fardeau de la réduction de manière disproportionnée sur les propriétaires de résidence ou encore aux industries manufacturières québécoises, puisque ce secteur a diminué ses émissions depuis 1990. En fait, il est ( Le plan contient des mesures pour une réduction d’ensemble de 180 MT, alors qu’on estime que la réduction à effectuer pour atteindre l’objectif du Canada sera au minimum de 240 MT.) clair que la croissance des émissions de GES origine principalement du secteur de la production et de la combustion des hydrocarbures (La catégorie exclut les véhicules sport utilitaires (SUV) dont les émissions ont augmenté de 81% depuis 1990.)

Et il est tout aussi clair que le gouvernement libéral a l’intention d’accroître considérablement la production d’énergie à partir des hydrocarbures au cours des prochaines années. Dans une étude du Groupe de travail nord-américain sur l’énergie, composé du Mexique, des États-Unis et du Canada, les prévisions pour le Canada font état d’une augmentation considérable de la production de pétrole brut et de pétrole produit à partir des sables bitumineux,celle-ci triplant entre 1990 et 2010.

Il y a un fort risque qu’en plus de manquer sa cible, le gouvernement aura créé de nombreux programmes coûteux et mal gérés qui n’auront en bout de piste aucun impact notable sur le niveau d’émissions canadiennes de GES. Le plan de mise en œuvre du Protocole de Kyoto,dans sa mouture actuelle, risque d’obtenir des résultats semblables à celui du Registre des armes à feu. Le Bloc Québécois s’opposera farouchement à ce que l’industrie des hydrocarbures soit exemptée, en tout ou en partie, de sa juste part des efforts de réduction des émissions de GES du Canada.

Tout ca c'est vrai!

Une approche inéquitable pour le Québec.

Le plan déposé par le gouvernement fédéral est particulièrement inéquitable pour le Québec. Le plan actuel utilise 2010 comme année de référence à partir de laquelle des efforts précis de réduction seront exigés. Cette approche est inéquitable, car elle ne permet pas de prendre en compte les efforts passés et actuels et encourage les pollueurs à polluer davantage d’ici 2010. En outre, Ottawa se déclare prêt à financer des projets de l’industrie des hydrocarbures, une politique du «pollueur-payé ».

Le gouvernement fédéral a évalué les impacts de la mise en œuvre du Protocole de Kyoto sur la création d’emplois. Les résultats montrent que le Plan fédéral est particulièrement inéquitable, puisqu’il récompense les pollueurs et punit ceux qui polluent moins. Le Québec, qui pollue moins, perd plus d’emplois, tandis que l’Alberta qui pollue davantage, perd moins d’emplois. (En fait,il ne s’agit pas d’emplois perdus, mais plutôt d’emplois qui n’ont pas été créés à cause d’une croissance économique moins forte.)

Le plan du Bloc Québécois.
À l’automne 2002, le Bloc Québécois a déposé son propre plan de mise en œuvre du Protocole de Kyoto. Il vise à répartir les efforts de réduction entre les provinces et à offrir une solution économique permettant au Canada de remplir ses engagements internationaux. Ce plan est basé sur deux principes :

• le respect du principe du pollueur-payeur pour une répartition équitable des efforts de réduction; et
• le respect des compétences du Québec en matière d ’environnement, de ressources naturelles et de production manufacturière.

Et il comporte aussi deux éléments principaux: la répartition des efforts de réduction sur une base territoriale et la création d’un système de permis échangeables. Il est inspiré de ce qui a été accompli par l’Union européenne,où un plan de répartition des efforts de réduction des gaz à effet de serre (GES) a été conclu en deux ans. Rappelons qu’au Canada, aucun plan de répartition territoriale n’a été adopté.

L’approche européenne.
L’approche européenne permet de prendre en compte différents critères dans l’établissement de la répartition des efforts de réduction des GES:

• la taille de la population et la croissance démographique;
• le niveau de vie et de développement économique: on accorde un certain droit à une croissance économique supérieure;
• la structure économique: la dominance des secteurs primaires, secondaires ou tertiaires influencent les possibilités de réduction des émissions;
• l’efficacité énergétique: l’application de restrictions égales des émissions dans tous les pays désavantagerait ceux ayant déjà consenti un effort important et obtenu une meilleure efficacité
• la diversification des combustibles primaires: un pays avec plus de ressources différentes a plus de possibilités de réduire ses émissions;
• le climat: chauffage et climatisation.

Le comparer, c’est l’adopter.
Le plan déposé par le gouvernement libéral ne permettra pas au Canada de remplir ses engagements internationaux en réduisant ses émissions de GES de 6% par rapport au niveau de 1990. Il n’est pas efficace au plan économique, puisque le gouvernement fédéral pré voit qu’il aura un impact négatif sur l’économie canadienne. Enfin, ce plan est particulièrement inéquitable pour le Québec en favorisant les pollueurs.

Le plan du Bloc Québécois permettra au Canada de remplir ses engagements internationaux. Il est efficace au plan économique, puisqu’il aura un impact positif sur l’économie canadienne et qu’il évitera au gouvernement fédéral de s’engager dans un autre programme ruineux dont il a le secret. Enfin, ce plan est équitable puisqu’il répartit les efforts entre les provinces en fonction de leur part respective de l’augmentation des émissions de GES – principe du pollueur-payeur – et qu’il prend en compte toute une série de critères socio-économiques.

Le Bloc Québécois soutiendra la création d’une bourse des permis échangeables à Montréal. L’industrie automobile doit aussi faire sa part l’industrie de l’assemblage des automobiles n’a aucun objectif de réduction dans le cadre du protocole de Kyoto et la loi qui permettrait de rendre les véhicules moins polluants n’est pas encore sur la table. Cette industrie est entièrement concentrée en Ontario. Depuis octobre 2000, le gouvernement a annoncé qu’il négocierait avec l’industrie automobile pour améliorer de 25% en moyenne l’efficacité énergétique des véhicules d’ici 2010. Or, force est de constater que le gouvernement refuse de procéder de manière réglementaire dans ce cas, ce qui garantirait pourtant une importante et nécessaire réduction des émissions dans ce secteur.

Le Bloc Québécois s’assurera que le gouvernement fédéral utilise l’approche réglementaire afin d’améliorer l’efficacité énergétique des véhicules automobiles de 25% d’ici 2010.

Les grandes compagnies pétrolières ont assez abusé!
Depuis plusieurs années, les grandes compagnies pétrolières profitent de leur intégration verticale en imposant des coûts de vente toujours plus élevés de production et de raffinage,des coûts qui se répercutent ensuite au prix à la pompe. Les profits de ces grandes pétrolières sont toujours plus élevés et,au cours des dernières années,ces hausses de profits ont atteint des niveaux indécents.

Bénéfices nets des grandes pétrolières.
De plus, l’industrie pétrolière est à la source de la presque totalité des nouvelles émissions de gaz à effet de serre au Canada depuis 1990. D’après Statistique Canada, les entreprises américaines contrôlent 44% de l’actif et 53% des revenus d ’exploitation déclarés par la branche de l’extraction de pétrole, de gaz et de charbon. Cela signifie qu’une bonne partie des bénéfices des grandes pétrolières prend la route des États-Unis. Rien ne justifie un soutien gouvernemental à cette industrie. C’est pourtant exactement ce que fait le gouvernement libéral de Paul Martin. En octobre 2003, le gouvernement libéral a adopté le projet de loi C-48 faisant du Canada l’endroit où les compagnies pétrolières ont le meilleur régime fiscal en Amérique du Nord, surpassant même le Texas de George W.Bush.

Le Bloc Québécois s’oppose à ce geste absurde qui consiste à récompenser l’industrie pétrolière. Le gouvernement fédéral devrait faire exactement l’inverse et imposer aux pétrolières une surtaxe sur les profits excessifs. Cela aurait pour avantage de taxer la pollution et de décourager les profits excessifs et abusifs de cette industrie. Le Bloc Québécois propose l’augmentation de la surtaxe sur les profits des grandes compagnies pétrolières.

À la suite des interventions du Bloc Québécois, le Comité de l’industrie de la Chambre des communes a proposé la création d’un Office de surveillance du secteur pétrolier. Les hausses des prix des produits pétroliers se multiplient à intervalles réguliers et c’est pourquoi il est nécessaire d’agir rapidement en répondant favorablement et sans délai à la recommandation du comité. Ça fait déjà trop longtemps que les consommateurs sont victimes des fluctuations injustifiées des prix de l’essence. La ministre de l’Industrie doit créer ce chien de garde de l’industrie pétrolière pour assurer un traitement équitable aux consommateurs. Le Bloc Québécois exige la création d’un Office de surveillance du secteur pétrolier Donner des dents à la Loi sur la concurrence À chaque fois qu’une plainte a été portée contre les pétrolières en vertu de la Loi sur la concurrence,aucune accusation n’a pu être portée. En fait, ces plaintes ont été l’occasion pour le Bloc Québécois de constater que la Loi sur la concurrence du Canada était l’une des plus faibles du monde industrialisé. Il est temps de réviser cette loi et de lui donner des dents pour contrer les pratiques abusives. Le Bloc Québécois exige une révision complète de la Loi sur la concurrence en vue de la renforcer.

Les éoliennes: une énergie propre pour le Québec.
Pour répondre aux exigences de Kyoto, le Bloc Québécois propose que le gouvernement fédéral change de cap et qu’il soutienne le secteur des énergies renouvelables plutôt que l’industrie du pétrole et du charbon. Le Bloc Québécois propose un plan d’investissement qui permettra de créer 25,000 emplois de qualité,principalement dans l’Est du Québec. Le gouvernement libéral, pour sa part,a été et demeure un fervent partisan de l’exploitation des énergies fossiles au Canada. De 1970 à 1999, Ottawa a versé 66 milliards $de subventions directes à l’industrie des énergies fossiles (charbon,gaz naturel et pétrole), contre un maigre 329 millions $à l’industrie de l’énergie renouvelable. Ottawa a également subventionné le secteur nucléaire, tandis que pas un sou n’allait à l’énergie hydroélectrique. Le soutien du gouvernement fédéral envers l’industrie des hydrocarbures,à même les impôts des Québécoises et des Québécois,va à l’encontre des intérêts fondamentaux du Québec au plan environnemental, mais aussi au plan économique. Le Bloc Québécois propose plutôt de privilégier les sources d’énergie propre comme l’éolien.

L’éolien: la source d’énergie la plus propre
Selon des calculs publiés dans la revue Science et avenir de juillet 2002, l’éolien est la source d’énergie la plus propre qui soit, devant le solaire et, bien sûr, les hydrocarbures.

La filière éolienne.
Depuis 1996, l’industrie de l’énergie éolienne a connu une croissance annuelle moyenne de 30%. L’Allemagne est le pays qui opte le plus pour cette forme d’énergie ;elle possède 40 fois plus de puissance installée que le total canadien. À elle seule, l’Europe possède presque 75% des éoliennes du monde. De son côté,le Canada se retrouvait très loin du peloton de tête avec seulement 207 mégawatts installés. Le Québec compte pour 50% de cette production,ce qui demeure minime par rapport à son potentiel (concentré en Gaspésie, sur la Côte-Nord et dans le Nord du Québec). Selon les spécialistes, le Québec offre le plus grand potentiel éolien en Amérique du Nord.

L’éolien: synonyme de création d’emplois.
Le département de l’Énergie des États-Unis affirme que l’énergie éolienne crée plus d’emplois par dollar investi que n’importe quelle technologie – cinq fois plus que dans les cas de l’énergie thermique (charbon)et du nucléaire. Actuellement, Hydro-Québec est prête à acheter 1,000 MW d’énergie éolienne,à condition que de 40 à 60% des composantes de ces éoliennes aient été fabriquées dans l’Est du Québec. Cela signifie la création potentielle de milliers d ’emplois. Le Bloc Québécois propose des investissements qui,à terme, permettront à Hydro-Québec d’acheter davantage de mégawatts d’énergie éolienne à très bon prix, ce qui permettrait la création d’emplois supplémentaires.

La bonne gouvernance et l’éthique.
La condition première du développement durable d ’une société, c’est un gouvernement responsable qui gère avec efficacité et honnêteté les impôts, les lois et les relations internationales au nom des citoyens. Le critère qui doit présider aux décisions prises par un gouvernement est celui du bien commun. Le gouvernement libéral de Paul Martin échoue ce test sur toute la ligne.

Une mondialisation à visage humain.
Le cours actuel de la mondialisation, qui est un phénomène porteur de grandes espérances mais aussi de grandes injustices, doit être infléchi.La disparité de la richesse, le non respect des droits et liberté et le commerce libre de toute réglementation environnementale et du travail créent plus de désespoir que le contraire. Les politiques «d ’ajustement structurel » du Fonds monétaire international (FMI) ont eu pour résultat de déstabiliser des États et d’appauvrir les populations,plutôt que d’atténuer les crises. L’ouverture au commerce et la création de règles internationales pour contrer le protectionnisme et protéger les investissements sont de bonnes choses auxquelles le Bloc Québécois adhère. Cela ne signifie pas que les règles commerciales doivent avoir préséance sur le bien commun et la capacité des États à redistribuer la richesse, protéger l’environnement et la culture et assurer des services publics fondamentaux comme la santé et l’éducation à leurs citoyens.

Une réforme des institutions financières internationales
Au cours des dernières années, on ne compte plus les chocs économiques et sociaux qui ont été amplifiés par l’imposition des politiques d ’ajustement structurel du FMI. Plutôt que de permettre un retour à la stabilité et de combattre la pauvreté, ces politiques ont brutalement détruit, parfois en quelques semaines, des progrès économiques et sociaux qui avaient nécessité des années, voire des décennies de travail. Il faut souligner que les décisions du FMI sont davantage dictées par des intérêts financiers particuliers que par le bien commun.

Tout ca c'est vrai aussi!

Letter to the leader of the NDP, Jack Layton

Dear Jack Layton, leader of the NDP,

I have noticed your political platform and thought helping you and other new democrats on very important issues.

Your political platform
Sharing half the federal gas tax with municipalities for sustainable transportation: public transit, cycling and pedestrian infrastructure in our cities and freight rail and road investment in rural communities. This transfer should not depend on matching funds from provinces, many of which are fighting deficits directly linked to Paul Martin’s choices while finance minister.

I agree! This is a good economic solution.

Re-starting a 10-year national housing program to build 200,000 affordable and co-op housing units (including homes for seniors, people with disabilities and students), renovate 100,000 existing units, and provide rent supplements to 40,000 low-income tenants, many of whom are single mothers who pay a large percentage of their income in rent. This program would also help Canada’s forest communities by stimulating Canadian demand for lumber.

No! You are promoting the destruction of forests to build new home. Building new home for homeless is a primordial human rights and very important on the Scale of Human and Earth Rights. Forests are even more important. They are on top of the Scale. Forests get rid of CO₂ and create O₂. No life can survive on the planet without forests. You must use different materials to build new homes.

Canadians are also a global people.
Around the world, many governments and businesses choose to manage change, evolving to a sustainable future to protect prosperity. Canada must do likewise. It’s time for a bold plan based on Kyoto’s targets and time frames, using Kyoto as a trigger for transformation and recognizing that, as with calculators and computers, the more new technology is used and sold, the cheaper it becomes. We need to take the initiative today to make sure we have a green, clean and prosperous tomorrow.

• Leveraging the federal government’s remaining 19 per cent stake in Petro-Canada with a new Crown corporation focusing on conservation and renewable energy and committing Canada to creating jobs through green energy self-sufficiency.
• Putting Canada on track to be a global leader in new environmental technology by using the new Crown corporation to establish innovation centres in solar, tidal, wind and geothermal power across Canada, located near fossil fuel centres to ease in the economic transition to a sustainable economy, and by providing tax incentives for renewable energy businesses to locate in those areas.
• Imposing hefty fines for polluters that match the clean--up costs (the polluter-pay principle).
• Creating the Canadian Climate Exchange, using market economics to generate revenue for green energy and sustainable development by auctioning off emission credits to corporations, with a steady decline of available credits over time. As the price for pollution credits rises, the financial incentive for corporations to pollute will decline, with the auction proceeds funding Canada’s green energy transformation.
• Supporting only those carbon sink projects that improve local biodiversity, create local economic development and do not divert funds from permanent solutions such as energy efficiency and green power.
• Making clean drinking water systems and sustainable waste water treatment a priority of the infrastructure component of the new deal for municipalities, as well as a top priority for rural, Aboriginal and remote communities.
• Creating a department of water stewardship, like Manitoba’s, to pull together all federal water issues (12 ministries currently have jurisdiction), develop common standards, invest in infrastructure and work with provinces and territories to ensure co-operation on water quality and quantity issues.
• Building respect for Canada’s biodiversity. Canadian species at risk began 2004 without the protection of an endangered species law, despite the Liberals’ promise during three consecutive elections. Canada’s forest industry still relies too much on exporting jobs and logs instead of creating wood-based processing jobs here. And regulations on approving new biotechnology crops remain desperately weak, allowing genetically altered crops into our environment without long-term knowledge of their effects on biodiversity or human health. It’s time to stop taking Canada’s rich heritage of plant and animal life for granted and work to protect our biodiversity for generations to come. We need to respect our environment and maintain a priceless resource that may contain answers to humanity’s greatest challenges.
• Working with forest communities, workers and businesses to develop value-added wood product industries to create jobs and reduce Canada’s unsustainable reliance on exporting logs for processing in the US and overseas and by working with provinces to end clear cut logging in old growth forests and move to sustainable forest practices.
• Working with progressive legislators in other countries to replace undemocratic, corporate-driven trade deals like NAFTA and the WTO with agreements based on the principles of fair and equitable trade, which respect fair wages and working conditions, human rights, the environment and communities’ right to develop in accordance with their values.
• Working to re-establish Canadian legislators’ primacy to enact national and provincial policies, which has been eroded in recent years by trade deals like NAFTA and the WTO.
• Strengthening the Special Economic Measures Act to enable Canada to implement economic sanctions on Canadian companies that contribute to serious human rights violations overseas.
• Amending the State Immunity Act to enable Canadians to sue foreign governments for torture, war crimes and crimes against humanity.

The Earth Court of Justice has listed America as the first nation to be prosecuted for a global environmental crime. You could get acquainted with this problems by reading our press release and June Newsletter. And certainly this Newsletter will take you right to the heart of the problem. Because the leader of the USA was responsible for not signing the Kyoto Protocol, President George W. Bush will be first to appear in Court. The reality here is that every American is on trial here. A large majority of the consumers in USA are also responsible for producing the deadly gas causing global warming and climate change, and they are all on trial. The same goes for every person on Earth producing the deadly gas. The gas is just as deadly as the gas that murdered millions of Jews during World War II. It is even more deadly as it is destroying the global life-support systems of all life on Earth. We are killing billions of human beings and countless life species. Americans have closed their conscience to the reality of life on Earth. Justice must prevail to stop the "killing fields". And therefore they are guilty as charge.

The invasion of Iraq is another crime against humanity. Ever September 11 the Global Community has opposed the invasion. Americans have invaded Iraq to steal their oil and gas. Read the President's message about this issue. Oil and gas production will only last for another 30 to 50 years. They need the fossil fuels to feed the american economy, their war industry (about 50 million Americans live off the industry directly or indirectly). Their vision of the world is a world ending with the end of fossil fuels. Whoever will have the biggest guns at that time will survive. America is financially bankcrupted with a national debt of over 6 trillion dollars and will never pay it back because they know it does not matter. At least it wont matter 50 years down the road. The world will be under tremendous natural and human stresses only 30 years from now. Money wont mean anything. Guns will mean survival. That is the vision of America. It is their vision on how they want to survive and what they will do to survive. Democracy and human rights dont mean anything unless you belong with those who have the biggest guns.

The Global Community has a different vision of the world now and 50 years from now. Our vision is very much in tune with most nations of the world.

Prosecuting criminals on the basis of universal jurisdiction regardless of a territorial or nationality nexus required a solid commitment of political will from national governments and the Global Community.

Letter to the leader of the Green Party, Jim Harris

Dear Jim Harris, leader of the Green Party:

I have noticed your political platform and thought helping you and other Green Party members on very important issues.

What should you expect from a Green Party government?

Increase EI Parental Benefits, and make it more affordable for parents to stay at home with their children.
Create a health care system that not only treats illness, but prevents it.

We will create a just society by staying focused on the basic rights.

You mean primordial human rights here, dont you? They are very important rights on the Scale of Human and Earth Rights.

Enact a national nutrition program to ensure everyone can afford to eat healthy food.
Restart a national housing program and focus on cooperative housing.
Work to make our political system "citizens only" by banning corporate, union and special interest funding.

A global community can choose to elect the political system of its liking.
We will be a voice for sustainable industries and lifestyles.
Implement reforms to favor organic, pesticide free, cruelty free agriculture.
Take steady, well planned steps to reduce industrial pollution and toxic emissions.
Create funding networks to fund local organizations, rather than expand government bureaucracy.
Build our voluntary sector - empower communities and strengthen citizenship.
Implement a fair tax shift and a balanced budget.
Increase taxes on pesticides and fossil fuels, so we can cut income taxes, and create "green collar" jobs.
Stay focused on the long term sustainability of our health and social programs.
We will stand up for Canada's sovereignty and our uniquely diverse culture.
Stay out of "Star Wars" or any other kind of missile defense.
NAFTA must either be re-written to better protect Canadian industries, resources, and culture, or it must be scrapped.

Our platform presents a positive vision of the future.
Our social programs focus on increasing our quality of life. Our economic policy lays the foundations for long-term, sustainable wealth. Our foreign policy makes principled stands on international issues. The Green Party is committed to:

Restoring democracy in Canada by implementing a proportional representation voting system.
Ending subsidies that result in more pollution and increased health risks.
Opposing an Anti-Ballistic Missile Defense system on Canadian soil.

I agree with most of the above statements.

Bioregions are like city-states for non-humans.
Within their boundaries, plant and animal species are all dependent on one other. Unless we act to preserve the fundamental integrity of the ecosystem, preserving individual species will be difficult, if not impossible.

The Green Party will:

Create offices for bioregional stewards, under the mandate of Environment Canada.
Empower the stewards to seek intervener or “amicus curiae” status in legal actions that impact the health of the ecosystem.
Advocate for the maintenance of natural corridors.
Work with local environmental groups to reduce pollution levels in the air, water and soil.
Promote sustainability through education.
Monitor the diversity of species, the levels of pollution and the health of the ecosystem.
Advise municipal governments on ecological issues.

Meeting Canada’s energy requirements will entail major investments by both the public and the private sectors. We have a clear choice — we can build newer, bigger power plants or we can build better, more efficient homes, businesses and factories. Choosing conservation over increased consumption will create more jobs, leave taxpayers with more disposable income and protect our environment for generations to come.

The Green Party will:

Establish a special five-year tax break on energy efficiency retrofits in commercial and residential buildings.
Create national small business efficiency loans, designed to assist small and medium sized businesses in reducing their energy usage and operating costs.
Expand the national retrofit program and energy audit initiative through NRCan, growing the number of licensed auditors and evaluators.
Push for the adoption of profit-linked efficiency initiatives (gas/electric).
Introduce a fund for local and municipal procurement of electricity meters, through the Federation of Canadian Municipalities.
Assist provincial governments in designing, implementing and monitoring energy efficiency programs, through the Office of Energy Efficiency.

The Green Party will:

Help shoreline communities stop dumping untreated waste in our waters.
Facilitate accurate reporting and measurement of municipal waste management.
Promote technologies that use sewage as an alternate energy source.
Support public education programs that inform consumers about waste, recycling and conservation.

If we are sincere about our commitment to fighting climate change, we have to face the facts. We have to beat our addiction to fossil fuels in order to reduce the number one source of greenhouse gas emissions. A green government will increase energy taxes and use the generated revenues to fund efficiency programs and infrastructure. If we do not move quickly to reduce the demand on energy, we risk both an energy shortage and an environmental catastrophe.

The Green Party will:

Increase fuel taxes by ten cents (to be phased in over three years).
Phase in a $10 per ton coal consumption tax. This will decrease the use of coal for power generation, in favor of cleaner alternatives. It will also raise about $600 million per year in revenue.
Introduce tax incentives to help homeowners reduce home heating and electricity bills.
Create an efficiency program for landlords, to ensure that tenants do not have to carry the cost of inefficient housing.

According to the Green Party’s plan, any increase in energy costs for businesses and families will be balanced by opportunities to save with efficiency improvements. For most Canadian households and businesses, investments in energy efficiency will financially outperform any other investment strategy.

Climate change is already underway. The Green Party will act decisively to limit the impact of fossil fuels.

The Green Party will:

Discontinue petroleum drilling and extraction in ecologically sensitive regions, including arctic and offshore areas.
Add CO2 to the National Registry of Pollutants and require large companies to report their emissions.
Implement a carbon tax on gasoline, diesel and coal.

Achieving progress requires measuring performance. The Green Party will assist and encourage Canadian companies to attain ISO 9000 and ISO 14000 certification — the international standard for management practices that achieve quality control and environmental responsibility.

The Green Party will:

Create tax breaks for companies that are certified for ISO 9000 and ISO 14000.
Create long term goals to require ISO certified management for all large companies.

The creation of engineered organisms presents risks to our ecosystems that are barely understood. Implementing the precautionary principle means we must avoid conducting “uncontrolled experiments” on the biosphere.

The Green Party will:

Require a license for any organization or institution that performs genetic engineering for commercial or scientific purposes.
Make the unlicensed release of engineered species (whose DNA can easily cross with other species) into the environment a criminal offence.
Hold organizations (including importers) responsible for contamination and remediation costs when they release genetically engineered material into Canadian ecosystems.
Engage a National Commission on Genetic Technologies to guide licensing requirements and safety practices.
Require that all genetically modified organisms, created or imported into Canada, must be rendered sterile to minimize the likelihood of causing an ongoing interaction with the environment.
Prevent public funding to research that would attempt to create human qualities in animals. Xenotransfer of human genetic material into animals will be limited to medical trials and scientific research.

Industry Canada must establish long term goals to eliminate harmful industrial practices. A Green Party government will create a long term pollution management and reduction plan for all the chemicals in the National Pollutant Release Inventory.

Contrary to popular belief, tariffs and non-tariff barriers are admissible under GATT (Article XX) when they are implemented to protect exhaustible natural resources and ecosystems. The Green Party will instruct the Canada Revenue Agency to work with international environmental organizations in monitoring practices and conditions in other countries. They will also work to develop a system of tariffs that will introduce economic pressure on other nations to reform and protect Canadian jobs from being undercut by unsustainable industries.

To maintain a stable climate and sustain our standard of living, we need to focus on green energy. North Americans are the world’s biggest energy consumers, and must therefore be the most focused on how to supply their energy requirements safely and in more sustainable ways. North American economies currently rely primarily on fossil fuels for their energy needs, but North American reserves of oil and natural gas are almost tapped-out or are ecologically unfeasible. Under these circumstances, the necessity is clear. We need to increase green energy, soft energy supplies and a sustainable energy infrastructure as quickly as possible.

The Green Party will:

Allocate funding to promote academic research on future energy and energy efficiency.
Allocate funding to host bi-annual international energy conferences.
Allocate funding to form an international advocacy organization that will foster sustainable energy policies worldwide.

Excellent platform and great ideas! Good work.

Letter to Weyerhaeuser and International Forest Products (Interfor), logging and pulp and paper industries, concerning the cutting of trees, your responsibility and accountability

This letter is for all of those who have anything to do with logging industry, pulp and paper industry, printing and publishing industry. The Global Community is concerned about the cutting of trees. This is about letting you know your responsibility and accountability.

While British Columbia's coastal forests are being cut, so are the virgin old-growth in its vast interior being mowed down for the U.S. market. The saw-mills in Nanaimo is seeing a large daily cut of trees from Vancouver Island. It is a criminal activity. The Earth Court of Justice has categorized this type of environmental crime as the worst of all crimes. This activity destroys the global life-support systems.

In British Columbia, mighty logging firms like Weyerhaeuser and International Forest Products (Interfor) are free from a host of environmental restrictions that rein in their colleagues to the south. Canada, for instance, has no Endangered Species Act. Cut levels on crown lands (which are owned by the government and hold 95 percent of Canada's timber) may be restricted to protect biodiversity and some wildlife habitat - but not by more than 4 percent and 1 percent, respectively. Even in "high biodiversity" areas, British Columbia's logging plans foresee leaving only 10 percent old growth over the long term. And timber companies can't cut less even if they wanted. To protect timber and mill jobs, the province requires a minimum harvest, regardless of market conditions. This is a crime against humanity, against the global life-support systems and all life on the planet.

The wood is subsidized, so they cut large amounts, which tends to depress prices because the supply is so great. The lack of environmental protection in Canada is actually hurting U.S. industry. The U.S. Department of Labor has certified that Canadian imports have been a factor in the closing of more than 50 U.S. mills since 1996. With the support of the U.S. International Trade Commission, the U.S. coalition is asking for duties as high as 78 percent on lumber imported from Canada.

Much of the above discussion can be found in:

Mount Benson Preservation Society

NEWSLETTER

Newsletter Volume 1 Issue 1, August 2003

and in a press release of the Society at:

September 2003 Press Release #1 of the Mount Benson Preservation Society

Letter to the oil and gas industry concerning the burning of fossil fuels and the Oxygen in the air, your responsibility and accountability

Dear Board of Directors and shareholders of all oil companies of the world:

This letter should also be read by governments (national, federal, provincial and municipal) as they get tax dollars, royaties, and other moneys and benefits one way or the other from the burning of fossil fuels and the O₂ in the air we breathe.

Greenhouse gases are accumulating in the Earth's atmosphere as a result of human activities, and temperatures are rising globally due to these activities. There are plenty of observable effects of the global warming. And certainly this ridiculous and false solution of buying environmental credits from each other should not be considered as a way out of resolving the problem. The ratification the Kyoto Protocol is only a beginning to protect the global life-support systems. There is much more to do!

It is OK to be more energy efficient for the purpose of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

It is OK to follow the best energy efficient machines such as the use of natural gas-fired co-generation power plants to provide steam and power requirements to oil sands development in Canada or elsewhere for other purposes.

It is also OK to build new cars with engines that do not emit greenhouse gases.

The Global Community has seen oil companies improving a lot on many important aspects of their business. And that is OK!

A lot of new solutions to resolve the problem of global warming are welcome and certainly are OK.

But none of them tackle the problem head-on! None of the solutions make a dent in resolving the problem. None are significant solutions!

None of the solutions truly show any significant cut in greenhouse gas emissions.

None of the solutions tell us that producers of the deadly gases are the problems and so are consumers.

Producers of the deadly gases are fooling themselves first and then they fool the consumers of their products of mass destruction, the greenhouse gases.

Global warming is the highest threat to Earth security and is everyone's business. Terrorism was, and still is, a problem humanity needed to tackle head-on and resolve the best we could, but global warming is by far the greatest threat to security of all people on Earth and to life itself. We have never tackle the problem head-on. We played around the problem and its solution. We know the solution to the problem of global warming, we know what we need to do to make this generation and future generations safe and secure, but we just never do what we really have to do to resolve the problem.

Why?

What will it take to make us act on the problem of global warming?

What will it take to make the North American Way of Life safe and secure to humanity?

What will it take to make Canadians and Americans understand that it does not matter how many guns we have, how many weapons of mass destruction we have hidden everywhere, or how good a 'Star War System' could be, and how many nations we invade, and how big is a GDP and how good is our economy.

None of that matters! None!

The biggest problem to security is smaller than anything we can see, smaller than the smallest particle we can breathe, and it is a trace element in the air we breathe. A deadly gas, the greenhouse gas!

We all know the problem, and we also know the solution. We can stop creating greenhouse gases. So now what is the problem?

The biggest problem is the North American continent Way of Life, consuming too much of the wrong things.

The biggest problem is too much freedom of doing the wrong things.

The biggest problem is our own weaknesses and helplessness in tackling the problem head-on and solve it.

The biggest problem is that Canadians and Americans are getting too proud about things that are completely unimportant and missing out on the things that are truly important, and we have been left behind by most other nations on those things that are truly important for the generations to come and to life itself. I advise you to get acquainted with the Scale of Human and Earth Rights and with the Statement of Rights and Responsibilities.

The Global Community is asking North Americans and everyone else on Earth to tackle the problem head-on. We must solve the problem we have with global warming.

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 and against all life on the planet. You are criminals. Board of directors, sharholders, and employees 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 take over OPEC and their oil and 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.

And please dont even mention the 'carbon emission trading permits' (a mechanism by which oil companies could buy and sell greenhouse gas emissions trading permits) as a possible solution. You are just extending the death of all lives by a few years, and you are not tackling the problem head-on.

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 the global concepts of The 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 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 the global life-support systems, to taking away lives of future generations, to the destruction of life on Earth. Very much so!

The 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 for the environment and the global life-support systems and to help humanity adapt to the climat change.

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.

The Global Community also proposes to develope a method of raising global taxes, of redistributing incomes to the poorest communities, of providing debt-free technical assistance to non-industrial and developing countries to help them out of poverty and to meet environmental and social standards.

The WTO, the World Bank, the IMF, the EU and the UN are worldwide organizations that can and should be used to raise global taxes to redistribute to the poorest and developing nations.

We are asking all the Arab nations to unite as one powerful People and to stop the invasion of your world by using economic means against the United States. We are asking you to stop selling oil to any country. You will lose in money but at least you will still be in control of your states. Do not buy any products, goods and services from the US and their friendly nations, even Canada. Sell all of your investments on the world markets as the US will retaliate by asking their friends to freeze your investments.

We are asking all oil producing nations to triple their oil prices. The planet has a problem with global warming and your share of the responsibility to causing the problem is way higher then anyone else. Consumers of your product cannot and dont want to be responsible of global warming. We are now putting the responsibility on to you and we will make you accountable in every way, like it or not, especially if you let the US get their hands on your oil resources. They are the worst people responsible for global warming. If you cannot be responsible and accountable then you should not be in charge of the oil resources.

Letter to the Canadian farmers, and to the cattle and beef industry, your responsibility and accountability

A global symbiotical relationship means do something good to others to benefit yourselves and all globally. Here is your chance to do good. Canadians have been giving you so much you should not have any problem doing good. The Global Community wants you to plant trees on your farms and ranch lands. At your own expenses! Stop asking for tax dollars! There are plenty of people around the world who could do your jobs better at ten times cheaper costs. Dont blame your situation on the way the insurance companies work. How does it work again? You get insurance and/or government money everytime your crop is not producing well because of some natural or other critical situations. How often does that happen? Every year! You get more money if your farm land is bigger. The bigger the land the more money you get. Wow! No wonder you cut all your trees on the land. You are criminals just the same as:

a) Weyerhaeuser and International Forest Products (Interfor), logging and pulp and paper industries, concerning the cutting of trees, your responsibility and accountability Read
b) Oil and gas industry concerning the burning of fossil fuels and the Oxygen in the air, your responsibility and accountability Read

Human activities (see all above industries including farming and ranch lands for a start) have recently been converting forested landscapes to grazed, cultivated, or urban landscapes. The impacts of such activities have been to:

(1) Remove a large sink for atmospheric carbon (because forests take up and store larger amounts of carbon than do other terrestrial ecosystems). Tropical and temperate rainforests have been subjected to heavy logging during the 20th century, and the area covered by rainforest around the world is shrinking rapidly. Estimates range from 1 1/2 acres to 2 acres of rainforest disappear each second. Rainforests used to cover 14% of the Earth's surface. This percentage is now down to 6% and it is estimated that the remaining rainforests could disappear within 40 years at this present rate of logging. Further estimates suggest that large numbers of species are being driven extinct, possibly 50,000 species a year due to the removal of their habitat. The largest rainforests can be found today in the Amazon basin (the Amazon Rainforest), the inner parts of Democratic Republic of Congo and on Borneo.

(2) Add a large source for atmospheric carbon (when the trees decay or are burned, releasing carbon). About 80% of the wood removed during tropical deforestation is destroyed (burned or decayed) or used as fuel wood, so the carbon stored in it is released rapidly as CO2, as opposed to the delayed slow release that occurs when used for lumber

(3) Burn the O₂ of the air.

It is such an impossible task to educate you people. Even when you bothered going to school your educational system is out of sink with realty.

Let me try anyway!

In general, populations of all lifeforms grow exponentially that is by a steady proportion of whatever was there before. When there is no practical limit on resource then populations usually grow maximally and the only limit is that of the reproductive capacity of the female animal. About 10,000 years ago, human beings were obliged to commit themselves more or less fully to agriculture and the human population was 5 to 10 million. By the time of Christ, after only 8,000 years of large-scale agriculture, the human population was 100 to 300 million. After this time, the exponential growth of the population entered its rapid phase. The billion mark was passed by 1800 A.D. By year 2000, the human population exceeded 6 billion. Thus agriculture allowed a thousand-fold increase in numbers over a period of 10,000 years.

So in actuality farmers are responsible for the Earth population being over 6 billion people. Our overpopulated planet is the caused of thousands of social, economic and environmental problems.

That is bad! Real bad! You have no conception of what your are doing. To survive as a species, humanity has no need of 6 billion people. Five hundred millions are all that is needed. This 6 billion will become 10 billion by year 2050. How are you planning to feed them? You are just going to feed yourselves and let the others die. You will add more technology to your techniques of farming and hope that will be enough. WoW! You are so wrong! You dont even come close to comprehend the problems. You are closing your eyes to problems that exist now, today, and you assume all is right. Your politicians are the worst kind, and you appreciate them fitting into your skim of things.

Western agriculture was designed in the end to maximize profit. As a primordial human right, the prime concern of the human species is to feed people. Therefore we have to do things differently. We will have to produce less livestock as we effectively double the population we need to feed: ourselves, plus the livestock that is supposed to be feeding us. We also have to apportion the land surface of the whole world more efficiently, using some for highhly intensive food production (which makes use of less land), some for extensive agriculture (combining food production with wildlife conservation) and designing some specifically as wilderness areas with global corridors between them. Hopefully this will help natives of British Columbia, Canada, to settle their land claims in their favor as they are the only people in Canada who can help protecting wildlife, at least for now. There should be a definite and specific clause in any agreement with the natives that it is what they will do with the land and not turn it into a huge industrial site as would the white man do.

Global warming and agriculture

The weather conditions - 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.

Demographic studies indicate that world population growth is expected to slow markedly in the next century, increasing 10 billion people by 2050. Hence, 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. World population will also have to face the perspective of global climate changes.

Assessment of the impacts of global climatic changes on agriculture might help to properly anticipate and adapt farming to limit potential food shortage. Agricultural shifts are likely.

Several types of changing parameters can have an impact on agriculture:

* a direct effect is the composition of the earth atmosphere: CO₂ and Ozone.

* some indirect effects are climate parameters resulting from climate change: temperature, insolation, rainfall, humidity

* other indirect effects are the side effects due to the climatic changes:
increase of the sea level, changes in ocean currents, tornadoes, hurricanes, thunderstorms...

The assessment of these effects is different whether one considers annuals crops (cereals, leguminous) or herbaceous perennial cultures (fodder, meadows) or other cultures such as vine or fruit trees... The effects are also different depending on the latitude: in temperate countries, effects are found less negative or even rather beneficial, while in tropical and desertic countries they tend to be adverse. Finally, effects depend on altitude, mid and high altitude places rather benefiting from a warmer temperature. Climate change induced by increasing greenhouse gases is likely to affect crops differently from region to region.

Climate change is likely to increase agricultural land surface near the poles by reduction of frozen lands. Sea levels are expected to get up to one meter higher by 2100, though this projection is disputed. Rise in sea level should result in agricultural land loss in particular in South East Asia. Erosion, submergence of shorelines, salinity of water table, could mainly affect agriculture through inundation of low-lying lands.

Agriculture could be affected by any decrease in stratospheric ozone, which could increase biologically dangerous ultraviolet radiation. In the long run, the climatic change could affect agriculture in several ways:

* productivity, in terms of quantity and quality;

* agricultural practices, through changes of water use (irrigation), agricultural inputs (herbicides, pesticides, fertilizers);

* environmental level, in particular in relation of frequency and intensity of soil drainage (leading to nitrogen leaching), soil erosion, reduction of crop diversity; and

* rural space, through the loss of previously cultivated lands, land speculation, land renunciation, hydraulic amenities.

They are large uncertainties to uncover, particularly the lack of information on the local scale, the uncertainties on magnitude of climate change, the effects of technological changes on productivity, global food demands, and the numerous possibilities of adaptation.

Most agronomists believe that agricultural production will be mostly affected by the severity and pace of climate change, not so much by gradual trends in climate. If change is gradual, there will be enough time for biota adjustment. Rapid climate change, however, could harm agriculture in many countries, especially those that are already suffering from rather poor soil and climate conditions. The adoption of efficient new techniques (varieties, planting date, irrigation...) is far from obvious. Some believe developed nations are too well-adapted to nowadays climate. As for developing nations, there may be social or technical constraints that could prevent them from achieving sustainable production.

However, the more favourable effects on yield depend to a large extent on realization of the potentially benefiting effects of CO₂ on crop growth and increase of efficiency in water use. Decrease in potential yields is likely to be caused by shortening of the growing period, decrease in water availability and poor vernalization.

Water is a major limiting factor in the growth and production of crops worldwide. In spite of better water efficiency use, higher summer temperature and lower summer rainfall is likely to have adverse impact. The intensification of the hydrological global cycle will have consequences such as more frequent drought in northern sub-tropical areas or desertification extension in arid areas. Soil degradation is more likely to occur, and soil fertility would probably be modified.

A soil constant is its carbon/nitrogen ratio. A doubling of carbon is likely to imply a higher storage of nitrogen in soils, thus providing higher fertilizing elements for plants, hence better yields. The average needs for nitrogen could decrease, and give the opportunity of changing the fertilisation strategies. The increase in precipitations would probably result in greater risks of erosion, according to the intensity of the rain. The possible evolution of the soil organic matter is a very debated point though: while the increase in the temperature would induce a greater mineralisation (hence lessen the soil organic matter content), the atmospheric CO₂ concentration would tend to increase it.

Storing excess carbon in terrestrial and ocean systems.

We can best store excess carbon by:

* land use changes from agriculture to forest ecosystems; this change could remove CO2 from the atmosphere at rates of 2000 to 20,000 kg of CO2 per hectare per year for periods of 50 years;

* soil conservation practices can help build up carbon reservoirs in forest and agricultural soils; and

* extracting CO2 from stacks and dispose of it in liquid form in underground reservoirs or deep oceans.

Crops

Impacts on Canada's agriculture will be seen in the response of crops, livestock, soils, weeds and insects to the warmer conditions. An estimated three- to five-week extension of the frost-free season will be of some benefit to commercial agriculture – however, it is also expected that dry soil conditions will intensify and may result in reduced yields.

Changements climatiques. La complémentarité des scientifiques et des acteurs de la société civile

par Jean-Guy Vaillancourt et Steven Guilbeault

Leaders, issues and articles concerned with above theme

The following articles were copied from issues 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 25, 26, 28, 30, 32, 36, 47, 48, 50, 51, 53, 54, and 55 listed on the website.

1. Protection of the global life-support systems. [ Participate ]

There are many related aspects of the global life-support systems that are affected by an overpopulated planet:

* global warming
* Ozone layer
* wastes of all kind including nuclear and release of radiation
* climate change
* species of the fauna and flora becoming extinct
* losses of forest cover and of biological diversity
* the capacity for photosynthesis
* the water cycle
* food production systems
* genetic resources
* chemicals produced for human use and not found in nature and, eventually, reaching the environment with impacts on Earth's waters, soils, air, and ecology

November 2003 Newsletter: 3.1, 5.0
April 2003 Newsletter: 8D
November 2002 Newsletter: 2A, 2B, 2F
December 2002 Newsletter: 2C, 2D, 2F, 2G
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October 2002 Newsletter: 2B, 7B, 7H
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28. Preventive actions against the worst polluters on the planet and those who destroy the global life-support systems. [ Participate ]

August 1999 Newsletter: 4.b
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2. Overpopulated planet. [ Participate ]

3. Criteria to obtain the Global Community Citizenship. [ Participate ]

4. The statement of rights and responsibilities of a person and of belonging to 'a global community' and to 'The Global Community', the Earth Community, the human family. [ Participate ]

7. A global symbiotical relationship between nations. [ Participate ]

25. The Kyoto Protocol is everyone's business on Earth. [ Participate ]

26. Earth rights and the Scale of Human and Earth Rights. [ Participate ]

28. Preventive actions against the worst polluters on the planet and those who destroy the global life-support systems. [ Participate ]

30. Scenarios of what might be humanity's future. [ Participate ]

32. Global strategies. [ Participate ]

36. A global sustainable development. [ Participate ]

47. Climate change adaptation. [ Participate ]

48. Agriculture, its practices in the field, and needs of the Global Community. [ Participate ]

50. Cattle and beef industry, its animal feeding practices, and global trade. [ Participate ]

51. Forestry, forest industry and its practices, logging and pulp mills, and global trade. [ Participate ]

53. Profit-based conservation strategies for natural ecosystems. [ Participate ]

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55. Societal sustainability. [ Participate ]

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