Global Community must now direct the wealth of the world towards the building of local-to-global economic democracies in order to meet the needs for food, shelter, universal healthcare, education, and employment for all. 
Truly, the world is on the threshold of a global revolution, and needs to
proceed with the non-violent approach. Global Community needs to build an economic democracy
based firmly on the basic principle that the Earth belongs equally to
everyone as a birthright. The Earth is for all people to labor and live
on and should never be the possession of any individual, corporation,
or uncaring government, any more than the air or water, or any other
Earth natural resources. An individual, or a business should have
no more than is needed for a healthy living.
The impacts of our democracy are destroying the Earth global life-support systems.
To live in a world at peace and have conditions of basic justice and fairness in human interactions,
our democratic values must be based on the principle of equal rights to the Earth.
Territorial conflict has for millennium been the basis of war and mass killing of others.
Throughout the ages wars have been fought over land, and other Earth natural resources.
We have seen oil conflicts in the Persian Gulf, and the Caspian Sea Basin.
We have seen water conflicts in the Nile Basin, the Jordan, and Indus River Basins.
We have seen wars being fought over minerals and timber in Brazil, Angola, Cambodia, Columbia, Congo, Liberia, the Philippines, and Indonesia.
The view from space shows us a global landscape in which competition over resources is the governing principle behind the use of military power.
Truly, resources have become the new political boundaries.
When people know they own the resources in their communities then people can start directing the wealth of their resources towards
the building of local-to-global economic democracies in order to meet the needs for food, shelter, universal healthcare, education, and employment for all in their community.
Global rights will help here. Global rights allow people to do what they need to do in order to be sustainable. People and communities are protected by global rights.
The universality of human rights recognizes the right of all individuals
to participate in the cultural life of their community and of other country,
to receive education and training, and to be informed. The Global
Community is aware that traditional customs and standards
could burden the sustainability of all life on Earth. They could burden
Earth society or any society forever, and holds individuals in a straitjacket.
We cannot accept that. No one can! There are choices to be made and you
must make them. Cultures can develop and can go on developing. Even religious
beliefs may evolve. We are living now, and we are able to
create these changes. We are at least as bright, most certainly brighter,
than the people who were living thousand of years ago.
As far as
the Global Community is concerned, cultural and religious
differences cannot be a reason or an excuse or a pretext for not respecting
human rights and, most importantly, ecological rights. Quite
the contrary, all kinds of cultures may promote human rights and especially
cultural rights. They are different in their achievements, but they are
equal in dignity where they are expressions of freedom. At any time
or in any given place, men, women and children use their culture to invent
new ways of making human rights a living reality. Diversity enriches us
if it respects the dignity of each individual, and if it takes account
of human rights as a whole.
Today, earquakes, cyclones and other natural disasters require a rapid and efficient response from the world to help those in needs. We need to be organized and ready to help.
We need all nations to be a part of this Global Movement to Help.
In the chaos after the magnitude 7.9 earthquake in China, which made 5 million homeless, many survivors were separated from their families.
Burma was hit by a cyclone at the beginning of the month of May, leaving over two million persons in need of emergency relief.
Thousands of children and parents have been separated. Nowadays, natural and human made disasters have become more frequent and require a rapid response to help.
Global Justice Movement  as developed by Global Community has many inter-related
components: monetary, social, economic, environmental, democracy, and
peace.
Global Justice Movement 
promotes new thinking to benefit all economies and societies – the true,
fair, democratic and efficient solution to poverty.
Global
Community has the productive resources to eliminate poverty and
injustice. Humanity is now in the process of developing the democratic
and transparent communications infrastructure which can bring this
about.
Our approach transcends left-wing/right-wing
designations. We see both conventional capitalism and socialism as being
two arms of a philosophy which concentrate power in an elite, to the
detriment of society as a whole. Reforming the current money system, to
empower each and every person, is a first step for justice.
Global Justice Movement stands for:
1. Each person has
the right to have clean air, clean water, food and housing, along with
access to a quality health and educational system.
2. Every
person should be respected, equal, free and able to choose their own
destiny.
3. Everyone should be able to fulfill their full
emotional, intellectual and spiritual potential.
4. Every person
must respect Earth and take responsibility for preserving the
environment including the fauna and flora, all of which are
interdependent and share a symbiotical relationship with humanity.
5. The inalienable rights of the individual include the rights
of life, liberty, access to productive property, truly free markets, and
equal justice before the law.
6. It is the duty of democratic
government to secure the results the people want from the transparent
management of their public affairs, as far as such results do not
infringe on the rights of the individual.
7. Replacing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the Scale of Global Rights.
The four interacting circles are quality systems. They are used because together they form a neat
geometric expression about a complicated intellectual concept. They represent interactions.
These interactions occur between the systems and within each individual system.
Here same-size circles represent mathematical local/global indicators that have been
developed for assessing and measuring sustainable development within four important realities in local/global life.
The scale used within the mathematical model reflects the importance of each quality system in ensuring a sound future for Earth.
People need a healthy environment and resources for family, community, government, business and industry.
Businesses cannot thrive without people and resources.
Earth resources need to be managed wisely so they last longer and be of good use for all of us and the next generations. Let us not waste.
Let us protect all life.
Economic stability depends on people, resources, and good businesses and trade.
The Global Economic Model
was developed to bring stability. Global Community will help businesses to be part of the
solution to the challenges of globalisation. In this way, the
private sector in partnership with civil society can help realize
a vision: allowing a global equitable and peaceful development
and a more stable and inclusive global economy.
And all of the above cannot exist without a healthy environment.
The four interacting circles are a simplistic expression of our need for one another, our
interactions, our symbiotical relationships, and the thoughtless damage we can cause if not careful. We are worlds within worlds orbiting in and through each other’s space.
This interaction can be planned and executed in a caring, considerate manner so that all may exist and not destroy the other.
The four interacting circles also give us an indication of how difficult it may be to apply Global Justice for all life on the planet, and how
difficult it is to include the needs of the next generations in our ways of doing things. It has been necessary to
conduct a two decades long Global Dialogue, and longer even, to find a process for the establishment of justice amongst us all. We are now seeing all aspects
of life through a single focusing lens we have called Global Law.
And that is the framework of Global Justice for all life on the planet as researched and developed by the Global Community.
The Global Community has had work on Global Justice for all life on the planet ever since 1985.
A short list of our previous work on Global Justice for all life on the planet is shown here.
Global Community Global Justice Movement has many inter-related components: monetary, social, economic, environmental, democracy, and peace.
Global Community Global Justice Movement promotes new thinking to benefit all economies and societies – the true, fair, democratic and efficient solution to poverty.
Global Community has the productive resources to eliminate poverty and injustice. Humanity is now in the process of developing the democratic and transparent communications
infrastructure which can bring this about.
Our approach transcends left-wing/right-wing designations. We see both conventional capitalism and socialism as being two arms of a philosophy which concentrate power in an
elite, to the detriment of society as a whole. Reforming the current money system, to empower each and every person, is a first step for justice.
The Global Community Global Justice Movement stands for:
1. Each person has the right to have warmth, clean air, clean water, food and housing, along with access to a quality health and educational system.
2. Every person should be respected, equal, free and able to choose their own destiny.
3. Everyone should be able to fulfill their full emotional, intellectual and spiritual potential.
4. Every person must respect the rest of creation and take responsibility for preserving the environment including the fauna and flora, all of which are interdependent
and share a divine origin with humanity.
5. The inalienable rights of the individual include the rights of life, liberty, access to productive property, truly free markets, and equal justice before the law.
6. Global Economic System that is fair for all.
7. It is the duty of democratic government to secure the results the people want from the transparent management of their public affairs, as far as such results do not
infringe on the rights of the individual.
8. Global Community Global Peace Movement is about educating ourselves to engage in personal diplomacy in another country. We are given
opportunities to meet and listen to some of the leading authorities on such subjects as humanitarian
and volunteerism, education, politics, historical, social and cultural perspectives, conflict management, teamwork, world affairs, community involvement, and religion.
9. Global Justice for all Life on the planet and it is about:
* establishing respect for human and Earth rights;
* implementing a global regulatory framework for capitals and corporations that emphasizes global corporate ethics, corporate social
responsibility, protection of human and Earth rights, the environment, community and family aspects, safe working
conditions, fair wages and sustainable consumption aspects;
* establishing freshwater and clean air as primordial human rights;
* practicing tolerance and living together in peace and harmony with one another as neighbours;
* promoting the economic and social advancement of all peoples;
* maintaining peace and security in the world by using negotiations and peaceful means;
* finding unity in diversity with all Life;
* establishing the respect for the life-support system of the planet;
* keeping Earth healthy, productive and hospitable for all people and living things, and
* applying the principle that when there is a need to find a solution to a problem or a concern, a sound solution would be to choose a measure or conduct an action, if possible, which causes reversible damage as
opposed to a measure or an action causing an irreversible loss.
Global Community has shown that corporate-style globalization that ignores the needs of the poor and the environment will no longer be tolerated. Global Community
is joining students, environmentalists, people of faith, human rights activists, and others, in the global struggle against corporate
globalization being fought in cities and towns across the world.
We works on issues of global economic and social justice and sustainability. We believe another world is possible and necessary. We envision a world free of corporate
domination and crushing debt, particularly in communities of color. We act to expose and change the institutionalized violence wrought by international financial and
trade institutions such as the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and World Trade Organization.
Cancel all impoverished country debt to the World Bank and IMF, using the institutions' own resources.
End all World Bank and IMF policies that hinder people's access to food, clean water, shelter, health care, education, and right to organize.
(Such "structural adjustment" policies include user fees, privatization, and so-called economic austerity programs).
Stop all World Bank support for socially and environmentally destructive projects such as oil, gas, and mining activities, and all support for projects such as dams that
include forced relocation of people.
We are committed to nonviolence and recognizes militarism as a tool used by the global corporate elite to keep money flowing to the privileged few while restricting the
rights of people worldwide. We oppose corporate practice which places short-term profits ahead of human dignity, sustainable development and a healthy earth. We stand for
the globalization of our rights to speech, thought, religion, assembly, a clean environment, self-determination, freedom from fear and persecution and freedom
from poverty.
We stand for the rights of women, children, elderly, affordable health care, strong labor rights and social and economic policies that put people and the environment before
profits. We are opposed to the globalization of greed and obscene concentrations of wealth -- we say that
another world is possible and necessary.
Global Community is a non-hierarchical nonviolent organization of individuals and organizations that promotes the arts, conducts workshops, facilitates nonviolent direct actions,
educates, organizes, campaigns, empowers, and aims to rip injustice from its roots.
Global Community movement for Global Justice is committed to making all Global Dialogues and Global Exhibitions safe spaces that are open, accessible, and accepting of all.
We welcome everyone to participate in making this happen. If you have any special needs, please let us know.
Global Law 
Global Parliament shall enact legislation as laid down in the Global Parliament Constitution.
Chapter 12, on the Exercise of Global Parliament competence, and more specifically, Chapter 12.1, on Common provisions, describe the process by
which Global Law was enacted.
Article 228: The legal acts of Global Parliament
1. In exercising the competences conferred on it in the Constitution, Global Parliament shall use as legal instruments, in accordance with the provisions of Chapters 19 to 25, Global
Laws, nations'regulations, decisions, recommendations and opinions. A global law shall be a legislative act of general application. It shall be binding in its entirety and directly
applicable in all Member Nations. A global framework law shall be a legislative act binding, as to the result to be achieved, on Member Nations to which it is addressed, but leaving the
national authorities entirely free to choose the form and means of achieving that result. A global regulation shall be a non-legislative act of general application for the implementation of
legislative acts and of certain specific provisions of the Constitution. It may either be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member Nations, or be binding, as regards the
result to be achieved, on all Member Nations to which it is addressed, but leaving the national authorities entirely free to choose the form and means of achieving that result. A global
decision shall be a non-legislative act, binding in its entirety. A decision which specifies those to whom it is addressed shall be binding only on them. Recommendations and opinions
adopted by the Institutions shall have no binding force.
2. When considering proposals for legislative acts, Global Parliament shall refrain from adopting acts not provided for by this Article in the area in
question.
Article 229: Legislative acts
1. Global laws and global framework laws shall be adopted, on the basis of proposals from the Global Judiciary , jointly by the Global Parliament and the Earth Executive Council under
the ordinary legislative procedure as set out in Article 312. If the two Institutions cannot reach agreement on an act, it shall not be adopted. In the cases specifically provided for in
Article 813, global laws and global framework laws may be adopted at the initiative of a group of Member Nations in accordance with Article 312.
2. In the specific cases provided for by the Global Parliament Constitution, global laws and global framework laws shall be adopted by the Global Parliament with the participation of the Earth Executive
Council, or by the latter with the participation of Global Parliament, in accordance with special legislative procedures.
Seeing the world today, Global Community claims that each of us depends on the well-being of the whole, and so global citizens have respect for the community of living beings, people and all other lifeforms, and plants, and for the preservation of Earth, air, water and soil. And that explains why the protection of the global life-support systems is the most important right on the Scale of Global Rights. Without this right there would be no life on our planet.
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Global Law
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There is such a thing as Justice! Global Community ethics offer the possibility of a better individual and community, a global order with fairness and Justice, and a wolrd with Hope and Love. A world where everything make sense in all areas of life, for families and communities, for races, nations and all religions. Peoples are asked to live a life following similar standards and fundamental rights and laws.
The four (4) pillars of Global Law
Life often involves tensions between important values. This can mean difficult choices. However, we must find ways to harmonize diversity with unity, the exercise of
freedom with the common good, short-term objectives with long-term goals. Every individual, family, organization, and community has a vital role to play. The arts,
sciences, religions, educational institutions, media, businesses, nongovernmental organizations, and governments are all called to offer creative leadership. The
partnership of government, civil society, and business is essential for effective governance.
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SoulLife, Ecclesiastical Teaching, Civic Law by Government, Natural Processes and Laws, are fundamental pillars of Global Law.
The work of the Global Community, the global civil society, and the determination of government worldwide, make it possible for everyone to comply with the law.
The Global Protection Agency (GPA) enforces the law.
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In order to build a sustainable global community, each individual, each local community, and national governments of the world must initiate their commitment to the Global
Community, and support the implementation of the Scale of Global Rights principles with an international legally
binding instrument on environment and development. This binding instrument is now called Global Law.
- Global Law
- Justice for all with Global Law
Global Rights
The Judiciary 
Earth Court of Justice
Standards & good practices
Global Law & Regulations
Formation of new nations
Settling of disputes between nations through the process of the Earth Court of Justice
Codes, Bills, Acts, and Statutes
Global Justice Network
Global Protection Agency (GPA)
Global Rights
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Global Law
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Global Protection Agency (GPA).
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The Global Protection Agency will train and lead a global force, bypassing traditional peacekeeping and military bodies such as the United Nations and NATO.
This is a great opportunity for globallateralism.
The Global Protection Agency (GPA) is leading a group of people in the world who participate in:
a) peacekeeping or peacemaking mission;
b) creating global ministries for: 
1. the policy response to the consequences of the global warming, and
2. the development of strategies to adapt to the consequences of the unavoidable climate change.
c) enforcing global law;
d) saving the Earth's genetic heritage;
e) keeping the world healthy and at peace;
f) protecting the global life-support systems and the eco-systems of the planet;
g) dealing with the impacts of: global poverty, lack of drinking water and food, global warming and the global climate change, threat to security, conflicts and wars,
lack of good quality soil for agriculture, polluted air, water and land, overcrownded cities, more new and old diseases out of control, widespread drugs, human and Earth rights
abuses, world overpopulation, and lack of resources;
h) broadening the traditional focus of the security of states to include both the security of people as well as that of the
planet. Global security policies include:
* every person on Earth has a right to a secure existence, and all states have an obligation to protect those rights
* prevention of conflicts and wars; identification, anticipation, and resolving conflicts before they become armed confrontations. The Earth
Court of Justice will help here.
* military force is not a legitimate political instrument
* weapons of mass destruction are not legitimate instruments of national defence
* eliminate all weapons of mass destruction from all nations and have inspectors verifying progress to that effect
* all nations should sign and ratify the conventions to eliminate nuclear, chemical and biological weapons
* the production and trade in arms should be listed as a criminal act against humanity; this global ministry will introduce a
Convention on the curtailment of the arms trade, a provision for a mandatory Arms Register and the prohibition of the financing or
subsidy of arms exports by governments
* the development of military capabilities is a potential threat to the security of people and all life on Earth; the ministry
will make the demilitarization of global politics a high priority.
* anticipating and managing crises before they escalate into armed conflicts and wars
* maintaining the integrity of the environment and global life-support systems
* managing the environmental, economic, social, political and military conditions that threatened the security of people and all life on the planet
* over the past decades and even now today, all Five Permanent Members of the United Nations Security Council (mostly the United States,
Russia and Britain) were responsible for selling weapons and war equipment. These three nations are required to give back to the Global Community
an amount of 8 trillion dollars (American) as a payment for the immense damage they have caused in the world.
They have created a culture of violence throughout the world. They are nation bullies, nation predators. They are responsible for economic mismanagement, ethnic tensions,
crimes, drug abuse, high unemployment, urban stress, worldwide poverty, and pressures on natural resources. Most conflicts in the world
are direct legacies of cold war power politics, senseless politics. Other conflicts were caused by the end of the cold war and the collapse
of old regimes. Other factors have combined to increase tension: religious, economical, political, and ethnic aspects.
The dollar fine is to be administered by Global Parliament.
Global Community has developed a global strategy to reinforce primordial human rights.
Recommendations to that effect are:
* provision of minimal standards of health, education, and housing worldwide
* reduce inequality in access to work opportunities
* care for the quality of life of the people
* all nations must ratify an agreement to form the Earth Court of Justice
* increase global cooperation between nations to deal with terrorism in a more selective, targeted way
* help the Global Community promote and implement its global civic ethic program worldwide
* allow our volunteers perform their global ethical management tasks during conflict resolution
* emphasise social responsibility of corporations in the whole cycle of their products or services
* expand coordination and global cooperation among nations, agencies, and NGOs, regarding information, early warning, apprehension,
and punishment of terrorists through the Earth Court of Justice. The Court will create an environment for transparent Justice.
* when there is massive damage done to a country that is abhorent to most countries of the world then the Earth Court of Justice will find
it justified to go after the suspected criminals wherever they may be hiding
Global Protection Agency (GPA)
Global Rights
The Judiciary
Earth Court of Justice
Standards & good practices
Global Law & Regulations
Formation of new nations
Settling of disputes between nations through the process of the Earth Court of Justice
Codes, Bills, Acts, and Statutes
Federation of Global Governments Head Quarters
Portal of the Global Community
Global Movement to Help main listing:
- Federation of Global Governments Head Quarters (HQ)
- Essential services
- Global Justice Network
- Global Protection Agency (GPA)
- Global Rights
- Portal of the Global Community
- Portal Global Dialogue 2009
- Global Information Media (GIM) proclamations
- Portal of Global Dialogue 2008
- Proceedings of the Global Dialogue
- Global Peace Movement amongst nations and people
- Global Citizens voting on issues
Building global communities requires a mean to enforce global law that protects all life on Earth.
Global Protection Agency will train and lead a global force, bypassing traditional peacekeeping and military bodies such as the United Nations and NATO.
This is a great opportunity for globallateralism.
The Global Protection Agency (GPA) is leading a group of people in the world who participate in:
a) peacekeeping or peacemaking mission;
b) creating global ministries for:
1. the policy response to the consequences of the global warming, and
2. the development of strategies to adapt to the consequences of the unavoidable climate change.
c) enforcing global law;
d) saving the Earth's genetic heritage;
e) keeping the world healthy and at peace;
f) protecting the global life-support systems and the eco-systems of the planet;
g) dealing with the impacts of: global poverty, lack of drinking water and food, global warming and the global climate change, threat to security, conflicts and wars,
lack of good quality soil for agriculture, polluted air, water and land, overcrownded cities, more new and old diseases out of control, widespread drugs, human and Earth rights
abuses, world overpopulation, and lack of resources;
h) broadening the traditional focus of the security of states to include both the security of people as well as that of the
planet. Global security policies include:
* every person on Earth has a right to a secure existence, and all states have an obligation to protect those rights
* prevention of conflicts and wars; identification, anticipation, and resolving conflicts before they become armed confrontations. The Earth
Court of Justice will help here.
* military force is not a legitimate political instrument
* weapons of mass destruction are not legitimate instruments of national defence
* eliminate all weapons of mass destruction from all nations and have inspectors verifying progress to that effect
* all nations should sign and ratify the conventions to eliminate nuclear, chemical and biological weapons
* the production and trade in arms should be listed as a criminal act against humanity; this global ministry will introduce a
Convention on the curtailment of the arms trade, a provision for a mandatory Arms Register and the prohibition of the financing or
subsidy of arms exports by governments
* the development of military capabilities is a potential threat to the security of people and all life on Earth; the ministry
will make the demilitarization of global politics a high priority.
* anticipating and managing crises before they escalate into armed conflicts and wars
* maintaining the integrity of the environment and global life-support systems
* managing the environmental, economic, social, political and military conditions that threatened the security of people and all life on the planet
* over the past decades and even now today, all Five Permanent Members of the United Nations Security Council (mostly the United States,
Russia and Britain) were responsible for selling weapons and war equipment.
In the past, security was thought as better accomplished through military means. Expanding the military capabilities and forming alliances
with other nations were the only way to 'win'. Today wars are unlikely to produce winners. The Global Community is all over the planet. Ethnic groups are everywhere. So we would fight our own people? Wars truly
make no sense! The world is too crowded and too small nowadays! And weapons too lethal! So security cannot be achieved through the military. The
only job the military should be asked to do today is to protect the global life-support systems. These systems have the highest priority
on the Scale of Global Rights and are certainly more important than any of the other rights on the Scale including security. Simply because without life there is
no other right possible. Without Oxygen there is no life! Without clean water there is no life! So protect life on Earth at all costs.
Wars are the biggest threat to life and the ecosystem of the planet. Primordial human rights come next on the Scale of Global Rights. Without a shelter life will still exist in some places but is not possible in cold place.
There are many related aspects of 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
So security must be achieved by other means than wars. We might as well shelved the war industry from humanity right now and that means phasing
out all nuclear, biological, chemical weapons right now. No waiting! That also means having inspectors verifying the phasing out in
all nations of the world, and not just in some Middle East country. The nature of global security has changed since the rise of the Global Community.
Security used to be about the protection of the state and its boundaries, people, institutions and values from an outside threat.
Global Community emphasizes as a priority the prohibition of external interference in the internal affairs of sovereign states. Today the security of
people within the Global Community is just as important as the security of states. Citizens must be secure. The Global Community is just as important as the security
and life of citizens and states.
There are many threats to security other than the threats to the global life-support systems and threat caused by weapons of mass destruction and the threats to
the sovereignty of a state, and they include:
* the proliferation of conventional small arms
* the terrorizing of civilian populations by domestic groups
* gross violations of human and Earth rights
Global security can only be achieved if it can be shared by all peoples and through global co-operation, based on principles as explained
in the Global Constitution such as justice, human dignity, and equity for all and for the good of all. All people and states
are protected by the Global Community.
In connection between human well-being and a sound environment, Earth rights are ecological rights and the rights that human beings have in protecting their global life-support systems.
Earth rights are those rights that demonstrate the connection between human well-being and a sound environment. They include individuals and global
communities human rights and the rights to a clean environment, and participation in development decisions. We define ecological rights as those rights of the ecosystem of the Earth beyond human purpose. They are those rights that protect and
preserve the ecological heritage of the Earth for future generations. The Earth Court of Justice guarantees ecological rights in its Statute. The Court guarantees also the rights to a safe environment and an environment free
from environmental degradation.
Earth rights are the rights to life on Earth.
The Global Protection Agency provides leadership for training of other countries citizens who would like to participate in peacekeeping and Earth security
so that we have a ready cadre of people who are trained and equipped and organised and have communications that they can work with each other.
The overall size of the force, or who would pay for it, have not been discussed, but the idea has been raised with countries in Europe and Asia.
As well, there are questions about how many nations would sign up if such a force were under the control of Global Community.
To act as a global policing force, as the GPA aspires to do, many foundations must be laid, especially regarding the move from wielding power derived from
Global Community to legitimate global leadership. There are many required characteristics that are prerequisite for legitimate leadership:
1. Legitimate leadership is built upon trust. Those who are led must largely believe that the leader is committed to integrity, honesty, and transparent inquiry into problems. The leader’s actions must align with his words
2. Legitimate leadership rests upon checks and balances, which are necessary to ensure power is not corrupted.
3. Legitimate leadership is an act of service. Those in power must show a primary interest in the good of the collective ahead of their self-interest. In this way, true leaders are mission-centered rather than self-centered.
4. Legitimate leadership empowers others appropriately rather than concentrating power disproportionately. In other words, true leaders produce more leaders and empower them as situations demand.
5. Legitimate leadership is visionary, carrying the torch of a possible future.
6. Legitimate leadership is willing to lead by example, including following a foundation of ethics, performing more than one’s share of work, and making sacrifices where appropriate.
7. Legitimate leadership is compassionately fierce when something undermines the good of the whole.
In a company this might mean the CEO fires a slacking employee. In a city, the police may jail a murderer. On a global level, this might even mean
arresting those breaking global law.
The defence function of a leader requires that he safeguard the good of the whole by whatever the most skillful means are to accomplish that defence.
While that is not a comprehensive catalog of leadership prerequisites, I do think those few requirements are foundational and relatively unquestionable.
Without at least a solid foundation of those requirements, the GPA’s actions among nation-states will remain those of a unilateralist leader rather than a global leader.
We will be, and should be, legitimated in the role of a global leader among nation-states and validated as an enforcer of global law.
Global Community offers a few recommendations for actions that would strengthen and legitimate the GPA’s role as a true global leader by gradually creating an international structure
that better safeguards the whole than we can ever do now as a unilateralist leader.
The GPA recommendations:
1. Ban military action in all parts of the world;
2. Lead the way in creating legitimate power for Global Parliament, subjecting ourselves and multinational corporations to taxation that generates money for programs
that are focused on world betterment and world problems. As a mark of our global leadership, we should commit a greater percentage of our resources to this effort
than any other organization.
3. Hold ourselves to a high standard of compliance around global treaties that aim for collective benefit and the redress of economic, environmental, military,
and political problems. Our adherence should be exemplary. Or, if we truly question the merit of a global accord, we should lead the way in creating agreements
that even better serve the global interest rather than simply ignoring or undermining the existing attempts.
4. Exert strong global leadership on multinational solutions to pressing health, environmental, and other problems. We should propose innovative new solutions and show leadership in carrying them out, especially in areas such as clean energy development.
5. Take seriously the process of coming clean by exposing corporate interests in politics, lobbying by powerful organizations,
subsidies of fringe military groups, etc. When our global government officials commit to be honest and transparent, a much deeper foundation of international trust
will be built.
As we enact global law, we will begin to take on a much deeper kind of global leadership, one that earns more respect than envy and more gratitude than hatred, one that
can catapult the whole planet forward into a future where war is no longer thinkable between nation-states and a legitimate and beneficial global government is able to cope
with global problems.
Table of Contents
- Global Community proposal
- A new global order
- Strong global leadership
- An old preachers' story
- Justice happens before you even committed a crime
- Guidelines, politics and ethics for human behaviors
- Modern morality is a product of evolutionary forces
- Symbiotical relationship between women and men
- Human morality is a natural phenomenon
- Symbiotical relationship in Nature
- The fundamental criteria of a global symbiotical relationship
- Knowledge is an essential good
- The greatest happiness of the greatest number is a measure of right and wrong
- Ethics evolved over the course of many generations
- Religion and ethics
- All lifeforms are an important part of Global Community ethics
- Reasoning generates important ethical conclusions
- Political ethics are also concerned with moral problems
- Professions are expected to develop up-to-date codes of ethics with specific guidelines in line with the Scale of Global Rights
- The Golden Rule can only be integrated 'softly' within Global Community ethics
- Education
- Ecological
- Making clear to all people what they can no longer do and must do for survival
- Planarchist
- Terrarist
- Ukraine hungry, poor and no ethics
Protection of the Global Life Support Systems.
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Planetary biodiversity zone ( Part III )
Summary
As a first step to getting help, all nations can and should approve those first three sections on the Scale of Global Rights.
The approval would supersede the political and physical borders of participating member nations.
The Global Protection Agency (GPA) would have the approval from all member nations to give immediate help, bypassing normal government protocols.
Somewhat like an emergency unit but at the global level. That is what those first three sections mean. They represent an efficient and immediate emergency response to help.
First, participating member nations need to give their approval to the GPA.
The GPA is a global organization much like the World Trade Organization (WTO) for trade between nations, the World Health Organization (WHO) for health,
or the European Union, North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFT), South American Community of Nations (SACON) for trade and economics.
The GPA offers an efficient emergency response to help.
The GPA is a short term solution, an immediate and efficient response to help. There are also long term solutions. As with the short term solution, the most significant long term solution is also related to
the Scale of Global Rights. The Scale was entrenched in the Global Constitution and is thus the fundamental guide to Global Law.
Now the Scale of Global Rights is a long term solution and is also a part of the Global Movement to Help of the Global Community.
The Scale was designed to help all life on Earth. What would be preferable is that nations unite amongst themselves to help.
Over time, we have seen the creation of the United Nations, the European
Union, the South American Community of Nations, and the North American Free Trade Agreement. Except for the UN, these organizations are mainly concerned with trade and economics.
Global Community offers a more meaningful union in the form of nine or more Global Governments. For instance the South American Community of Nations can be
a Global Government by simply accepting the Global Constitution as a way of dealing between member nations. A Global Government is concerned not only with economics and trade,
but also with the environment, health, agriculture, energy, food, social, cultural and many other essential aspects.
The Federation of Global Governments is the place of meeting between Global Governments.
The very first step of the Federation, and maybe the only one for several decades ahead of us, would be the approval of essential services amongst the participating member nations. The Global
Community has researched and developed such services and listed them here. All of them are already in operation on a small scale.
Key words:
Planetary biodiversity zone, biodiversity zone in the North Pole region, biosphere, rainforest, boreal forest, oceans, Earth ecosystems, global ocean, human activities, global rights,
a nation sovereignty, Northwest Passage, North Pole region, criteria for sovereignty, biodiversity zone in the North, Nunavut settlements,
Global Community, movement for taxation on natural resources,
North America security for all life, Earth is the birth right of all life, Earth ownership, Scale of Global Rights, Global Law, global citizenship,
Kyoto Protocol, global warming, climate change, global symbiotical relationship, Global protection Agency (GPA),
GCNA Emergency, Rescue and Relief Centre.
Table of contents
Introduction
Global Community concept
Global rights
Global Community criteria for sovereignty
Biodiversity zone in the North Pole region
Planetary biodiversity zone
Benefits of biodiversity
Boreal forest
The Boreal forests are threatened by human activities
Rainforest
Definition and description
Locations of temperate and tropical rainforests
Impacts of human activities on rainforest
Benefits of rainforest to the Global Community
Temperate rainforest
Oceans, lakes and streams
Global warming
What we must do to protect life and create a planetary biodiversity zone
Conclusion
In 1985, Part I
was the subject of defining the fundamentals of the Global Community. Major Global Community investigative reports were published during those beginnings.
Some were published under the idea:
Protect photosynthesis: less CO2 , more Oxygen and better health for all of us.
Part II was about applying those fundamentals to the Earth, especially to the North Pole region.
Part IV will be coming soon and proposing specific legislation and regulations to help humanity and all life on Earth through this very difficult period of our history.
In this report we have established a planetary biodiversity zone to include:
- North Pole region
- South Pole region
- all oceans
- all forests
- all lakes
- all rivers and connecting streams
- all wetlands and grasslands
- living organisms and ecosystems in all of the above
Our planet is populated with living beings consisting of millions of different life forms interacting with each
other to survive, thus forming an intricate web of life in different ecosystems on the planet. The interaction and interdependence between life
forms are the driving force that creates and maintains an ecological - environmental equilibrium that has sustained life on Earth for millions of years enabling
it to evolve, flourish and diversify. Global Community values Earth’s diversity in all its forms, the non-human as well as the human.
On Earth’s surface exists a diversity of arctic, temperate and tropical ecosystems with many different varieties of plants, animals, and human beings, all of which are
dependent on soils, waters and local climates. Biodiversity, the diversity of organisms, depends on maintenance of
ecodiversity, the diversity of ecosystems. Cultural diversity
– which in effect is a form of biodiversity – is the historical result
of humans fitting their activities, thoughts and language
to specific geographic ecosystems. Therefore, whatever
degrades and destroys ecosystems is both a biological
and a cultural source.
Today the ecological
languages of aboriginal people, and the cultural diversity
they represent, are as endangered as tropical forest
species and for the same reasons: the world is being homogenized,
ecosystems are being simplified, diversity is declining, variety is being lost.
Along with the lost of life, there is also the urgent human need to survive, and for this reason the Global
Community has declared a planetary state of emergency which then brought
up the need of the " Global Community Movement to Help ".
We have shown
that several events have contributed to the planetary state of emergency:
A)
widespread poverty and hunger in more than half the world population
B)
The global warming of the planet due to human activities
C)
Climate change
D)
Economic and military invasion of nations by the United States and NATO
E)
Absence of fair and democratic global governance at the United Nations
and European Union
F)
Our global environment and global life-support systems are threatened by:
- any of the above mentioned events
- pollution worldwide
- the U.S.A. military
exploded war heads over the bottom of the Indian ocean, and that scenario
created a tsunami wave in 2004.
Just a test, said the captain of the submarine that did it.
- the U.S.A. military
exploded war heads to melt the Polar Cap and glaciers. All nations capable
of such an extreme action against humanity and all life on Earth must be
disarmed and pay for the independent global investigation. The United States
is the only nation that would profit from the melting of the North Pole
and is capable of such an extreme action against humanity and all life.
Blood resources.
Global Community is now applying more emphasis on the urgent need from
the people of all nations to give everyone essential services.
Today,
earquakes, cyclones and other natural disasters, as well as human made
global destruction and disasters, require a rapid and efficient response
from the world to help those in needs. We need to be organized and ready
to help. We need all nations to be a part of this Global Movement to
Help.
In the chaos
after the magnitude 7.9 earthquake in China, which made 5 million homeless,
many survivors were separated from their families. Burma was hit by a cyclone
at the beginning of the month of May, leaving over two million persons
in need of emergency relief. Thousands of children and parents have been
separated. Nowadays, natural and human made disasters have become more
frequent and require a rapid response to help.
The planetary state of emergency is showing us that humanity needs and wants are so destructive to itself and to all life on Earth that something significant
must be done to protect this amazing life heritage, not just for ourselves but the next generations.
Over the last Century humanity has been depleting the natural capital of Earth, rich agricultural soils, its groundwater stored during ice ages, and its biodiversity.
Overpopulation and increasing per capita consumption are major reasons for the depleting of resources.
Politicians and business executives are under the delusion that such a disastrous
end to the modern human enterprise and institutions can be avoided by technological fixes that will allow the population and the economy to grow forever.
The recent event that brought down the American economy is a signal of desperation, a wake-up call, something has gone very wrong and we need to make things right.
People from Wall Street live a dream life. Our current way of life is unsustainable.
Our current way of life is unsustainable. We are the first species that will have to self-consciously impose limits on ourselves if we are to survive.
Can we really believe this world can go forward indefinitely, a few decades?
We are seeing the end of the era of cheap fossil energy, and there is no viable large-scale replacements for that energy.
The health of the planet is not what Wall Street is showing us. The reality is that we see more trends such as :
- groundwater contamination,
- high levels of toxicity,
- topsoil loss,
- widening inequality in the world,
- the intensity of the violence,
- war over oil and gas,
- floods, and
- the desperation that so many feel at every level of society.
Is this a sustainable system? We need to recognize the
failure of fundamental systems and to abandon the notion that there is to do is recalibrate the institutions that structure our lives today.
Somewhat like the US Congress is doing. Put money we dont own into the system and everything will be fine.
We need to realize that the way we thought things would work out truly is gone. Capitalism is at the core of this unsustainable system. It
gives rise to the high-energy/mass-consumption configuration of privileged societies.
We must set-up measures to stop speculators from benefiting from the misery of others, by punishing
corrupt politicians, and by collectively understanding that bankers are rich because we have placed our money in their hands. Ultimately, unless we
begin to see the world as a whole, in which
things are truly interconnected, our governments will continue their hostilities, oil prices will keep on rising, and when the time comes for us to
complain, we will be faced with the guns of the police
whom we have helped to create with the payment of our taxes.
It's time for us to come to terms with reality. We need ways of organizing ourselves to help us live in a world with less energy and fewer material goods.
We need to recover a deep sense of community that has disappeared from many of our lives.
The World is in the global crisis. We are exploiting our natural resources, minerals and fuels faster than we are gaining access to alternative sources.
We are polluting the natural environment faster than the environment can regenerate itself to reach the level suitable for human needs.
We are changing climate dangerously. Our attitude and way of life show a moral degradation of
the existing forms of life on the planet. It's time for us to protect what is left to protect: life itself on Earth.
This is the reason for the creation of a planetary biodiversity zone.
In this report we have shown the benefits of biodiversity to humanity and hope this approach will motivate others to help create the zone.
As a first step to getting help, all nations can and should approve those first three sections on the Scale. The approval would supersede a nation political and physical border anywhere in the world.
The Global Protection Agency (GPA) would have the approval from all member nations to give immediate help.
Somewhat like an emergency unit but at the global level. That is what those first three sections mean. An efficient and immediate emergency response to help.
First, participating member nations need to give their approval to the GPA.
The GPA is a global organization much like the World Trade Organization (WTO) for trade between nations, or the World Health Organization (WHO) for health.
The GPA offers an efficient emergency response to help.
The GPA is a short term solution, an immediate response to help. There are also long term solutions. As with the short term solution, the most significant long term solution is also related to
the Scale of Global Rights.
Since year 1985 the Global Community has organized the Global Dialogue to probe the Peoples of the world, people from all nations, as to what it will take to make
living on Earth sustainable, now and for the next generations. Results were published in our Proceedings.
Global Rights year one is a new impetus of the Global Community to educate everyone about the need for a change in thinking
and of doing things amongst all
nations. We need to realize what is a priority, what is the most important, and what is the least important for our survival.
We need to make hard choices.
We need a clear vision. We need a common
vision. And we must all change! There are many important aspects of our lives we can no longer do, or should never do anymore. They are destructive. Humanity and all life
can no longer afford activities that destroy life and the global environment. And there are other activities we must do, certainly thousands of them, to assure the survival of life on Earth.
In view of the planetary state of emergency we all must change, we must do things differently to give life on Earth a better survival chance.
And this is what Global Rights year one is about: to establish global fundamentals and a clear vision to follow.
Perhaps the Scale of Global Rights represents the strongest pillar of our vision.
In 1985, the Scale of Global Rights was first proposed as a replacement to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. After several decades of research and development,
many global dialogues, we still find the Scale as the best solution to global problems. The Scale has now been titled the Scale of Global Rights.
Today, we are presenting once more the Scale as the best educating tool to bring about the change the people of the world need to achieve for their own survival.
Now the Scale of Global Rights is a long term solution and is also a part of theGlobal Movement to Help of the Global Community.
In itself the Scale was designed to help all life on Earth. What would be preferable is that nations unite amongst themselves to help.
Over time, we have seen the creation of the United Nations, the European
Union, the South American Community of Nations, and the North American Free Trade Agreement. Except for the UN, these organizations are mainly concerned with trade and economics.
Global Community offers a more meaningful union in the form of nine or more Global Governments. For instance the South American Community of Nations can be
a Global Government by simply accepting the Global Constitution as a way of dealing between member nations. A Global Government is concerned not only with economics and trade,
but also with the environment, health, agriculture, energy, food, social, cultural and many other essential aspects.
The Federation of Global Governments would be the place of meeting between Global Governments.
The very first step of the Federation, and maybe the only one, would be the approval of essential services amongst the participating member nations. Global Community has researched and developed
such services and listed them here. All of them are already in operation on a small scale.
We, citizens of Global Civilization, hereby resolve to establish a federation of all nations, and to govern in accordance with Global Parliament Constitution. Global Parliament shall be composed of four (4) bodies, designated as follows:
1. the House of Elected Representatives,
2. the Federation of Global Governments,
3. the House of Advisers, and the
4. Executive Council
We, citizens of the Global Community of North America, hereby resolve to establish the Global Government of North America (GGNA) to govern in accordance with the Global Constitution. Member states of the GGNA are Mexico, the United States of America, Canada, the North Pole Region which also includes Greenland and Iceland. The GGNA ensures state governments that it will obey the principle of non-intervention in domestic affairs. Essential services to the people of each member nation are now the most important global rights and are protected by the Global Protection Agency (GPA) of each member nation. And that is how we can protect the global life-support systems, thus largely improving the quality of life of the next generations. We are also inviting the United Kingdom to become a member of the GGNA. The United Kingdom is leaving the EU and is available for a more meaningful relationship with the GGNA.
World overpopulation and overconsumption.
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Perhaps the most important step towards achieving global sustainability now and for future generations is to control our population
growth. World overpopulation is now at the turning point and requires from each and every one of us making a commitment to a statement of rights,
responsibilities and accountabilities, and of belonging to the Global Community, the human family.
Humanity has to regulate its population by means that are voluntary
and benign and has to take along with a fair proportion of other lifeforms.
Proper Earth management will certainly be a necessary tool to achieve our
goal. If not there will be a collapse of humanity and of the environment.
From now on every global decision has tremendous consequences on our future.
Comprehensive population policies are an essential element in a world development strategy that combines access to reproductive health services,
to education and economic opportunities, to improved energy and natural resource technologies, and to healthyer models of consumption and the "good life."
Policies to decrease world population
- delay reproduction until later in life
Delaying reproduction is important in influencing population growth rates. Over a period of 60 years, if people delay reproduction
until they are 30 years old, you would have only two generations, while if you do not delay reproduction you would have three generations (one generation every 20 years).
- spread your children farther apart
- to have fewer children overall
- government commitment to decreasing population growth
Create policies that help decreasing the number of children being born. Policies such as income tax deductions for dependent children and maternity and paternity leaves are essentially pronatalist and should be eliminated.
- programs that are locally designed and that include information on family planning and access to contraceptives
- educational programs that emphasize the connection between family planning and social good
The vast disparities
in reproductive health worldwide and the greater vulnerability
of the poor to reproductive risk point to several steps all governments
can take, with the support of other sectors, to improve the health
of women and their families:
- Give women more
life choices. The low social and economic status of women and
girls sets the stage for poor reproductive health
- Invest in reproductive
health care
- Encourage delays
in the onset of sexual activity and first births
- Help couples prevent
and manage unwanted childbearing
- Ensure universal
access to maternal health care
- Support new reproductive
health technologies
- Increase efforts
to address the HIV pandemic
- Involve communities
in evaluating and implementing programs
- Develop partnerships
with the private sector, policymakers and aid donors to broaden
support for reproductive health
- Measure Progress
More and more young people on every continent want to start bearing children later in life and to have smaller families than at any
time in history. Likewise, in greater proportions than ever, women and girls in particular want to go to school and to college, and
they want to find fulfilling and well-paid employment. Helping people in every country obtain the information and services they
need to put these ambitions into effect is all that can be done, and all that needs to be done, to bring world population growth
to a stable landing in the new century.
Moratorium on world population
Despite humanity's success in feeding a growing world population, the natural resources on which life depends, such as fresh water, cropland, fisheries and forests, are increasingly depleted or strained. In this millennium, population growth continues, meaning that more people will be sharing such finite resources as fresh water and cropland. UN population projections for the year 2050 range from 7.9 billion to 10.9 billion, suggesting the extent to which we can influence our future. More people worldwide are multiplying humanity 's impact on the environment and on natural resources essential to life.
Because of the high per capita consumption of resources in industrialized nations, we have the world's worst population problem! People think of the population problem as being a problem only of "those people" in the undeveloped countries, but this serves only to draw attention away from the difficulties of dealing with our own problems. It is easier to tell a neighbor not to cut forests or create global warming than it is for us not to cut forests and create global warming. With regard to other countries, we can offer family planning assistance on request, but in those countries we have no jurisdiction or direct responsibility. Within our own country we have complete jurisdiction and responsibility, yet we fail to act to help solve our own problem. What the industrialized world can do to help other countries stop their population growth is to set an example and stop our own population growth.
It clear that there will always be large opposition to programs of making population growth pay for itself. Those who profit from growth will use their considerable resources to convince the community that the community should pay the costs of growth. In our communities, making growth pay for itself could be a major tool to use in stopping the population growth.
Because of world overpopulation and our never satisfied consumer societies natural resources are being depleted at an alarming rate.
Agriculture faces an increasing challenge in feeding the growing world population.
The number of people living in countries where cultivated land is critically scarce is projected to increase to between 600 million and 986 million in 2025. Despite the Green Revolution and other technological advances, agriculture experts continue to debate how long crop yields will keep up with population growth. The food that feeds the future will be raised mostly on today's cropland. The soil on this land must remain fertile to keep food production secure. Easing world hunger could become unimaginably difficult if population growth resembles demographers' higher projections. Soils represent an important component of the terrestrial resources. In fact, more carbon is stored in soils (including peat) than in all of the vegetation of the world!
Global warming and agriculture
Weather conditions such as temperature, radiation and water, determine the carrying capacity of the biosphere to produce enough food for the human population and domesticated animals. Any short-term fluctuations of the climate can have dramatic effects on the agricultural productivity. Thus, the climate has a direct incidence on food supply. In the coming years, unless population size is stabilized, agriculture will have to face an increasing challenge in feeding the growing population of the world.
 Moratorium on world
population and the fertility rate, and ending population warfare.
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. Humanity needs to slow down significantly world population.
World population estimates from 1800 to 2100, based on "high", "medium" and "low" United Nations projections in 2010 (colored red, orange and green) and US Census Bureau historical estimates (in black). Actual recorded population figures are colored in blue. According to the highest estimate, the world population may rise to 16 billion by 2100; according to the lowest estimate, it may decline to 6 billion.
| Continent |
Density
(inhabitants/km2) |
Population
(billions, 2013 estimates) |
Most populous country |
Most populous city |
| Asia |
96.4 |
4.298 |
China (1,361,000,000) |
Greater Tokyo Area (35,676,000) |
| Africa |
36.7 |
1.111 |
Nigeria (173,120,000) |
Cairo (19,439,541) |
| Europe |
72.9 |
0.742 |
Russia (143,700,000;
approx. 110 million in Europe) |
Moscow (14,837,510) |
| North America |
22.9 |
0.565 |
United States (317,996,000) |
Mexico City/Metro Area (8,851,080 / 21,163,226) |
| South America |
22.8 |
0.407 |
Brazil (201,032,714) |
São Paulo City, Metro Area(11,316,149 / 27,640,577) |
| Oceania |
4.5 |
0.038 |
Australia (23,475,992) |
Sydney(4,575,532) |
| Antarctica |
0.0003
(varies) |
0.000 004
(non-permanent, varies) |
N/A |
McMurdo Station (1,200) (non-permanent, varies) |
Population warfare: use of a very
high fertility rate to conquer a nation, and that could mean as many
as or more than 2.11 children per family. It is a form of cultural
and/or religious aggression and invasion by having a much too high
number of new born babies. For instance, there has been a rapid
increase in population among Muslims to the extent that in fifty years
all of Europe and North America are expected to be mostly Islamic. The
influx of Latino immigration into the western states of the USA will
also have the effect of a population warfare.
Clearly the environmental challenges facing humanity in the 21st
century and beyond would be less difficult in a world with slower
population growth or none at all. Population is a critical
variable influencing the availability of each of the natural resources
considered here. And access to family planning services is a critical
variable influencing population. Use of family planning contributes
powerfully to lower fertility, later childbearing, and slower
population growth. Yet policymakers, environmentalists and the general
public remain largely unaware of the growing interest of young people
throughout the world in delaying pregnancies and planning their
families. In greater proportions than ever, girls want to go to school
and to college, and women want to find fulfilling and well-paid
employment. Helping people in every country to obtain the information
and services they need to put these ambitions into effect is all that
can be done, and all that needs to be done, to end world population
growth in the new century.
Reproductive health services can help.
Voluntary family planning and other reproductive health services can
help couples avert high-risk pregnancies, prevent unwanted
childbearing and abortion, and avoid diseases such as HIV/AIDS and
other sexually transmitted infections, that can lead to death,
disability, and infertility.
Comprehensive reproductive health services, especially care in
pregnancy and childbirth and for sexually transmitted infections, are
key to preventing disability and death and improving women's health.
Better access to emergency care during childbirth and safe abortion
services would also contribute significantly to lower maternal death
rates. Family planning diminishes risks associated with frequent
childbearing and helps reduce reliance on abortion.
An important obstacle to couple negotiation of contraceptive use
and protection from STDs including HIV is that most women have unequal
access to resources and decision-making. Yet women are more vulnerable
to the consequences of unplanned pregnancies and often HIV/STI's. For
these reasons, countering the prevailing gender stereotypes that
increase risky behaviors and decrease couple communication is a key
strategy for promoting good reproductive health.
Individuals, too, can help bring about a world that is more secure
and more supportive of life, health and happiness. They can educate themselves on population dynamics,
consumption patterns and the impact of these forces on
natural resources and the environment. They can be socially,
politically and culturally active to elevate the issues they care
about. They can become more environmentally
responsible in their purchasing decisions and their use of
energy and natural resources. And individuals and couples can consider the impacts of their reproductive
decisions on their communities and the world as a whole.
Population dynamics are among the primary underlying causes of
forest decline. Poverty, corruption, inequitable access to land
and wasteful consumption practices also influence the decisions of
governments, corporations and individuals to cut and clear forests.
The interaction of these forces is most evident in areas such as South
Asia, Central America and sub-Saharan Africa, where poverty, rapid
population growth and weak institutions contribute to forest loss and
severe environmental degradation.
The dominant force in forest loss is growth in the demand for
farmland. Subsistence agriculture is the principal cause of forest
loss in Africa, Asia and much of Latin America. Slash-and-burn farming
and other traditional techniques were sustainable for centuries when
population densities were lower. Today they are a major factor, along
with the expansion of commercial farms and livestock grazing areas, in
the permanent conversion of wooded land to agriculture. The need to
increase food production is expected to accelerate the
forest-to-farmland cycle, especially in countries where alternatives
for meeting this demand are limited.
A typical American uses 15
times as much lumber and paper as a resident of a developing country.
Reducing wood consumption in the industrialized world is unlikely to
stop forest loss in developing countries however, since most of the
wood consumed comes from trees in the industrialized countries
themselves. Nevertheless, the consumption model offered to the rest of
the world threatens accelerated forest loss as both populations and
economies grow in developing countries.
Population policies based on human development and the Scale of
Global Rights offer the greatest hope for the future of forests.
This is not an argument for population "control" but for the social
investments that allow couples to choose when to have children and how
many to have. Programs linking conservation activities with family
planning services show promise for achieving both the sustainable use
of forests and greater acceptance of reproductive health services.
Sustainable wood consumption is essential for the future of
forests. Individuals and institutions alike should promote the
ecologically sound and socially responsible use of forest products.
Eco-labeling, or the environmental certification of wood products,
could speed the adoption of more sustainable forestry practices.
Consumer demand for green-certified paper and other wood products is
an important complement to recycling and other efforts to reduce wood
consumption.
The total number of people worldwide could still
double or even triple from today’s 6.7 billion before stabilizing a
century or more from now. Women in most countries are still having
more than the two-child average consistent with a stable population
size. Moreover, so many young people are now entering or moving
through their childbearing years that even a two-child average would
still boost population size for a few decades until the momentum of
past growth subsides. Yet there is reason for optimism. The
combination of access to family planning and other reproductive health
services, education for girls and economic opportunity for women could
lower birthrates enough to stabilize world population well before a
doubling of today’s total.
Motivation, rather than differential access to modern contraception
is a major determinant of fertility. Individuals frequently
respond to scarcity by having fewer children, and to perceived
improved economic opportunity by having more children. Economic
development does not cause family size to shrink; rather, at every
point where serious economic opportunity beckons, family size
preferences expand.
A) Foreign aid conveys to the recipients the perception of
improving economic wellbeing, which is followed by an increase in the
fertility of the recipients of the aid.
B) Migrations from regions of low economic opportunity to
places of higher economic opportunity result in an increase in the
fertility of the migrants that persists for a generation or
two.
The need is not to control population growth. Governments
cannot control childbearing and attempts to do so have sometimes led
to coercive approaches to reproduction that violate human rights. The
need is rather to expand the power individuals have over their own
lives, especially by enabling them to choose how many children to have
and when to have them.
Investing in education for girls helps them to contribute to their
national economies–and to postpone childbearing until they are ready
for a family. Providing credit and other economic opportunities for
women creates alternatives to early and frequent childbearing.
Finally, better access to quality reproductive health services
directly benefits women and their families. These approaches increase
human capacity, providing the greatest long-term return to societies,
individuals and the environment. Moreover, they are likely to lead to
an early peak in world population in the coming
century.
Comprehensive population policies are an essential
element in a world development strategy that combines access to
reproductive health services, to education and economic opportunities,
to improved energy and natural resource technologies, and to healthyer
models of consumption and the "good life."
Policies to
decrease world population:
delay reproduction until later in
life
Delaying reproduction is important in influencing
population growth rates. Over a period of 60 years, if people delay
reproduction until they are 30 years old, you would have only two
generations, while if you do not delay reproduction you would have
three generations (one generation every 20 years).
spread your children farther apart
to have fewer children overall
government commitment to decreasing population
growth
Create policies that help decreasing the number of
children being born. Policies such as income tax deductions for
dependent children and maternity and paternity leaves are
essentially pronatalist and should be eliminated.
programs that are locally designed and that include
information on family planning and access to
contraceptives
educational programs that emphasize the connection
between family planning and social good
The vast disparities in reproductive health worldwide
and the greater vulnerability of the poor to reproductive risk point
to several steps all governments can take, with the support of other
sectors, to improve the health of women and their families:
- Give women more life choices. The low social and
economic status of women and girls sets the stage for poor
reproductive health
- Invest in reproductive health care
- Encourage delays in the onset of sexual activity
and first births
- Help couples prevent and manage unwanted
childbearing
- Ensure universal access to maternal health
care
- Support new reproductive health
technologies
- Increase efforts to address the HIV
pandemic
- Involve communities in evaluating and implementing
programs
- Develop partnerships with the private sector,
policymakers and aid donors to broaden support for reproductive
health
- Measure Progress
More and more young people on every continent want to start bearing
children later in life and to have smaller families than at any time
in history. Likewise, in greater proportions than ever, women and
girls in particular want to go to school and to college, and they want
to find fulfilling and well-paid employment. Helping people in every
country obtain the information and services they need to put these
ambitions into effect is all that can be done, and all that needs to
be done, to bring world population growth to a stable landing in the
new century.
Introduction to issues of overpopulation worldwide
Authors of research papers and articles on issues of overpopulation worldwide 
Authors of research papers and articles on issues of Global Peace
As a species we no longer need to procreate by the millions so quit making children Peoples.
For our survival as a species one child per family is more than enough.
Let us restrain ourselves!
Let the community be the other child our child needs as a companion.
Let the Soul of all Life be our guiding hand!
Perhaps the most important step
towards achieving societal sustainability
this century is to control our population growth.
World overpopulation is now at the turning point and requires from each and every one of us of agreeing about the
statement of rights and belonging to the Global Community, the human family.
Comprehensive population policies are an essential element in a global development strategy that combines access to reproductive health services,
education and economic opportunities, improved energy and natural resource technologies, and to healthyer models of consumption and the good life.
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Summary
Global problems arising from an overpopulated planet, reducing consumption, control our population growth, and comprehensive population policies
What happens when the energy supply stops growing, but the population continues to grow? More importantly, what happens when the
energy supply begins to decline, as population continues to grow? Peak oil is not simply an issue of learning to conserve or finding ways
to do more with less. It isn't simply about the possibility of economic collapse, war, starvation or global pandemic. It isn't just about
changing our behaviors or our beliefs. It is about turning ourselves inside-out, and not only surviving the transformation, but also being
and living equal and in harmony with all the rest.
Reducing consumption is imperative, but it's pointless to cut out meat and cars while having lots of children. When challenged,
environmentalists have coherent arguments to defend their retreat from the population debate. They insist that the pressure on the earth's
resources - its water, forests, soil fertility - and carbon emissions are all about consumption and lifestyle, not about sheer numbers of
human beings. They rightly point out that the average American produces some 20 tonnes of carbon a year while some of those living in
areas of the world with the fastest growing populations, such as Africa, produce a tiny fraction of that kind of carbon footprint. They
insist that the earth can support the 9 billion now predicted by 2050 (the increase in the next 40 years will equate to roughly what the entire
global population was in 1950) if everyone is living sustainable lifestyles. The focus of campaigning must stay on the consumption
patterns of the developed world, rather than on numbers of people.
We must bring a solution to our overpopulation problem.
Perhaps the most important step towards achieving societal sustainability this century is to control our population growth. World overpopulation is now at
the turning point and requires from each
and every one of us of agreeing about the
statement of rights and belonging to the
Global Community, the human family.
Comprehensive population policies are an
essential element in a global development
strategy that combines access to
reproductive health services, education
and economic opportunities, improved
energy and natural resource technologies,
and to healthyer models of consumption
and the good life.
The rate of world population growth is beginning to decline, but the total number of people could still double or even triple
from today’s 6.3 billion before stabilizing a century or more from now. Women in most countries are still having more
than the two-child average consistent with a stable population size. Moreover, so many young people are now entering or moving
through their childbearing years that even a two-child average would still boost population size for a few decades until the
momentum of past growth subsides. Yet there is reason for optimism. The combination of access to family planning and other reproductive
health services, education for girls and economic opportunity for women could lower birthrates enough to stabilize world population
well before a doubling of today’s total.
Motivation, rather than differential access to modern contraception is a major determinant of fertility. Individuals frequently respond
to scarcity by having fewer children, and to perceived improved economic opportunity by having more children.
Economic development does not cause family size to shrink; rather, at every point where serious economic opportunity beckons, family size preferences expand.
A) Foreign aid conveys to the recipients the perception of improving economic wellbeing, which is followed by an increase in the fertility
of the recipients of the aid.
B) Migrations from regions of low economic opportunity to places of higher economic opportunity result in an increase in the fertility of the
migrants that persists for a generation or two.
The need is not to control population growth. Governments cannot control childbearing and attempts
to do so have sometimes led to coercive approaches to reproduction that violate human rights. The need is rather to expand the
power individuals have over their own lives, especially by enabling them to choose how many children to have and when to have them.
Investing in education for girls
helps them to contribute to their national economies–and to postpone childbearing until they are ready for a family. Providing credit and
other economic opportunities for women creates alternatives to early and frequent childbearing. Finally, better access to quality reproductive
health services directly benefits women and their families. These approaches increase human capacity, providing the greatest long-term return to
societies, individuals and the environment.
Comprehensive population policies are an essential element in a world development strategy that combines access to reproductive health services,
to education and economic opportunities, to improved energy and natural resource technologies, and to healthyer models of consumption and the "good life."
Policies to decrease world population:
delay reproduction until later in life
Delaying reproduction is important in influencing population growth rates. Over a period of 60 years, if people delay reproduction
until they are 30 years old, you would have only two generations, while if you do not delay reproduction you would have three generations (one generation every 20 years).
spread your children farther apart
to have fewer children overall
government commitment to decreasing population growth
Create policies that help decreasing the number of children being born. Policies such as income tax deductions for dependent children and maternity and paternity leaves are essentially pronatalist and should be eliminated.
programs that are locally designed and that include information on family planning and access to contraceptives
educational programs that emphasize the connection between family planning and social good
The vast disparities
in reproductive health worldwide and the greater vulnerability
of the poor to reproductive risk point to several steps all governments
can take, with the support of other sectors, to improve the health
of women and their families:
- Give women more
life choices. The low social and economic status of women and
girls sets the stage for poor reproductive health
- Invest in reproductive
health care
- Encourage delays
in the onset of sexual activity and first births
- Help couples prevent
and manage unwanted childbearing
- Ensure universal
access to maternal health care
- Support new reproductive
health technologies
- Increase efforts
to address the HIV pandemic
- Involve communities
in evaluating and implementing programs
- Develop partnerships
with the private sector, policymakers and aid donors to broaden
support for reproductive health
- Measure Progress
More and more young people on every continent want to start bearing children later in life and to have smaller families than at any
time in history. Likewise, in greater proportions than ever, women and girls in particular want to go to school and to college, and
they want to find fulfilling and well-paid employment. Helping people in every country obtain the information and services they
need to put these ambitions into effect is all that can be done, and all that needs to be done, to bring world population growth
to a stable landing in the new century.
Table of Contents
1.0 Overview of the problem
1.1 Societal sustainability
1.2 Agriculture and population increase
1.3 Our overpopulated planet
1.4 Overpopulation and natural resources
2.0 Growth and measurement of world population
2.1 Data and terminology
2.2 Measurement of world population
2.3 Developing nations with low total fertility rate
2.4 Developing nations with high total fertility rate
2.5 Policies to decrease world population
3.0 Global Community overall picture
4.0 Overpopulation as social issue
5.0 Impacts of the overpopulation
6.0 Population control
7.0 Action at the Global Community level
7.1 Impacts of family planning and health services
7.2 Reproductive health services
7.3 Unintended pregnancies
7.4 Abortion policies
7.5 Nutritional anemia in pregnancy
7.6 Care in pregnancy and childbirth
7.7 HIV/AIDS
7.8 Risk of death in childbearing
7.9 Improving reproductive health
7.10 Biodiversity
7.11 Forests
7.12 Education
7.13 Population and hope
8.0 Birth Control
8.1 History of birth control
8.2 Traditional birth control methods:
8.3 Modern birth control methods:
8.4 Religious and cultural attitudes to birth control
9.0 Action at the local community level
10.0 Action concerning fisheries
11.0 Action concerning forests
12.0 Action concerning agricultural land and food production
13.0 Action concerning world hunger
14.0 Action concerning natural resources
15.0 Action concerning water
16.0 Carrying capacity
17.0 Overview of results from this report
18.0 Conclusion
19.0 Recommendations
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Global Community Ethic for a business
Global ethic for a business must always be grounded in realities.
1.
As a business you may:
a) be a corporate eco-friendly
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
* help small business in the least developed countries
* commitment to the community
* abolition of child labour
* eliminate discrimination in respect of employment and occupation
* employee relations and diversity
* effective recognition of the right to collective bargaining
* corporate governance
* share performance
* global corporate responsibility
* against corruption in all its forms, including extortion and bribery
* health, safety and security
* provided help to combat diseases at home and abroad
* uphold the freedom of association
* audits and inspections
* emergency preparedness
* corporate global ethical values
* ensured safe working conditions
* standards of honesty, integrity and ethical behaviour
* elimination of all forms of forced and compulsory labour
* in line with the Scale of Global Rights
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:
* primordial global rights deterioration
* global ocean acidification
* global warming
* Ozone layer depletion
* 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 and fresh water use
* food production systems
* genetic resources
* Oxygen supplies
* change in land use and lost of agricultural soils
* phosphorus and nitrogen cycles
* 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
As a business you may have scored high on all of the above challenges but Global Community wants you to take on even greater challenges in line with Global Community ethic for a business.
2. Checks and balances
In the past, corporations
ruled without checks and balances. Now, global ethics will be a basic
minimum to do business, and there will be checks and balances. Our judgement
will be based on global ethics. Global ethics must always be grounded in
realities. But realities are changing constantly and are different in different
places. We live in a world that makes progress toward democracy. Ethics
and morality exist only when human beings can act freely.
In our free society,
rights are tied to responsibilities. Corporations are committed to improvement
in business performance and want to be seen as 'good corporate citizens'
on a local and a global scale. Corporations have social responsibilities
as they are an integral part of society. Global ethics recalls that those
realities, on which others build upon, have to be protected first. Global Community has found evident that universal values and
the Scale of Global Rights as described above were the foundation of global ethics for a business.
3. Corporate citizen global ethic
Global Community has now at hand the method and framework to conduct societal checks and balances
based on a method reinforcing global ehtics for a business. A more balance world
economy will result of annual checks and balances. Corporations will take their social responsibilities and become involved in designing, monitoring, and implementing these checks
and balances. Several corporations have already done so. Results will be taken into account in the evaluation of a global ethic for a business. Corporations are required to expand their
responsibilities to include global rights, the environment, community and family aspects, safe working conditions, fair wages and sustainable consumption aspects.
A corporation will now be required to operate its business as per global ehtics for a business:
* Be concerned with issues such as climate change, bio-diversity, pollution prevention and adopt high standards
* Minimize environmental degradation and health impacts
* Be responsible for the environmental impact of its products and services throughout their cycle
* Adopt a wide environmental code, and policies, health and safety practices and procedures aimed at reducing resource and energy
use in each stage of a product or service life-cycle
* Set up appropriate management systems to implement policies
* Conduct annual checks and balances and provide reports to the community
* Respect the political jurisdiction of national communities
* Respect human rights, social and cultural rights
* Recognize its political and economic impact on local communities
* Contribute to the long-term social, cultural, environmental and economic sustainability of the local communities
* Respect the rights of indigenous peoples, their culture and land, and their religious and social customs; provide employment and training opportunities
* Ensure that each employee is treated with respect and dignity and is not subjected to any physical, sexual, psychological or verbal harassment or abuse
* Respect employees' right to freedom of association, labour organization, and free collective bargaining
* Provide equal pay for work of equal value to women and men
* Recognize the responsibilities of all workers to their families, and provide for maternity leave, and paternity leave
* Ensure that their be no barriers to the full participation of women within the company
* Participate in the creation of child care centres and centres for the elderly and persons with disabilities where appropriate
* Ensure no discrimination on grounds of race, ethnicity, or culture
* Ensure that persons with disabilities who apply for jobs with the company receive fair treatment and are considered solely on their ability to do the job; provide resources
and facilities which enable them to achieve progression in employment in the company
* Provide training to all employees to conduct their activities in an environmentally responsible manner
* Work with organizations concerned with children's rights, human rights and labour rights to ensure that young workers are not exploited
* Ensure that a mechanism is in place to address ethical issues of concern raised by employees
* Make sure that the company's policies balance the interests of managers, shareholders, employees, and other affected parties
* Adhere to international standards and protocols relevant to its products and services
* Adopt marketing practices which protect consumers and ensure the safety of all products
* Conduct or support research on the environmental impacts of raw materials, products, processes, emissions and wastes associates with the company and on the means of minimizing such adverse impacts
* Make a sustainable use of renewable natural resources such as water, soils and forests
* Conserve non-renewable natural resources through efficient use and careful planning
* Conserve energy and improve energy efficiency of internal operations and of the goods and services being sold
To make a business even better
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
* help small business in the least developed countries
* commitment to the community
* abolition of child labour
* eliminate discrimination in respect of employment and occupation
* employee relations and diversity
* effective recognition of the right to collective bargaining
* corporate governance
* share performance
* global corporate responsibility
* against corruption in all its forms, including extortion and bribery
* health, safety and security
* provided help to combat diseases such as AIDS
* uphold the freedom of association
* audits and inspections
* emergency preparedness
* corporate global ethical values
* ensured decent working conditions
* implemented no-bribe policies
* standards of honesty, integrity and ethical behaviour
* elimination of all forms of forced and compulsory labour
* in line with the Scale of Global Rights and the Global Constitution
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
Now is time to reach a higher level of protection to life on Earth. We all need this for the survival of our species.
Global Community can help you integrate and balance global life-support systems protection, global community participation, and economic decisions into your operations and products.
Global Community wants to help you be an active corporate member of the Global Community, the human family, the Earth Community.
Apply to us to be a global corporate citizen of the Global Community. Apply to obtain the Certified Corporate Global Community Citizenship
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. Global Community
then asked to operate your business as per the values of the citizenship.
Ministries
Table of Contents
I. Global Movement to Help II. Global Ministries:
- Global Ministry of World Population
- Summary
- Global resources affected by overpopulation
- Causes of overpopulation
- Effects of overpopulation
- Solutions to the global problem of overpopulation
- Leadership needed to solve the global problem of overpopulation
- Global Ministry of Essential Services
- Ministry of Global Resources
- Ministry of Global Peace in government
- Earth Environmental Governance
- Earth Ministry of Health
- Global Ministry of Forests
- Global Ministry of Agriculture, Food Production and
Distribution
- Global Civilization Ministry of Peace and Disarmament
- Ministry of Intergovernmental Affairs: Global Government of
Africa
- Global Ministry of Water Resources Protection
- Global Environment Ministry
- Sustainable Development Global Information Society
III.
Building a Global Civilization for all life. IV. Making clear to all people
what they can no longer do, and what they must do for survival. V. As part of Global
Protection Agency (GPA): establishing in each nation an "Emergency, Rescue, and
Relief Centre". VI. Establishing a global
action plan for survival. Such worldwide action plan be promoted widely during
the Global Exhibition. VII. Education for Global
Survival VIII. Applying the proper
taxation system to establish confidence and trust in the global action plan for
survival IX. Making available to all
nations an efficient global warning system to warn people of imminent danger due
to natural or humanmade disasters. X. Analyzing and publishing
local and global impacts of all significant events that affect the survival of
life on the planet. XI. Family is important.
Family with too many children is a problem. XII. Preventing actions to
alliviate the effects of global warming and climate change. XIII. Making public worlwide a
daily list of all people responsible of causing significant deterioration of the
global life-support systems. XIV. Conducting research and
development of new ways of saving us all from conflicts, wars, destructive paths
or ways of doing things. XV. Measuring, assessing and
publishing daily actions and changes in the world which significantly affect
survival XVI. Moratorium on world
population and the fertility rate, and ending population warfare. XVII. Ending economic warfare
XVIII. Creating a
planetary biodiversity zone
XIX. Establishing a global
dialogue between all Peoples.
XX. Humanity new Vision of the World.
XXI. Global Parliament's Constitution.
References
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Global Community Ministry of World Population
References.
Protection of the :
- global life-support systems
-
Earth ecosystems
- environment
Security for all life,
and safety at work
Peace and disarmament
Have shelter and basic clothing
Global voting
Sustainable agriculture and food
supplies
Water resources protection and
drinking fresh water
Ombudspersons Office
Global Information Media ( GIM )
Volunteering
Breathing clean air
Global Community Assessment Centre (
GCAC)
Preventive actions against
polluters
Eating a balance diet
Sustainable use of human and
natural resources
' Clean ' energy
Eradicating poverty and hunger
Universal health care and
education for everyone
Global Rights
All of the above essentials for this
generation and the next ones
Global Movement to Help main listing:
- Federation of Global Governments Head Quarters
(HQ)
-
Essential services
- Global Justice Network
- Global Protection Agency (GPA)
- Global Rights
-
Portal of Global Community
- Portal Global Dialogue 2009
- Global Information Media (GIM) proclamations
- Portal of Global Dialogue 2008
- Proceedings of the Global Dialogue
- Global Peace Movement amongst nations and people
- Global Citizens voting on issues
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Over the past decades, Global Community has been promoting the formation of several global ministries for the proper governance of Earth. Global ministries are world wide organizations just like the World Trade Organization (WTO) for trade and therefore should have the power to rule on cases as that of the WTO.
The formation of global ministries is the most important event in human history. Humanity sees the need to manage the world affairs in several aspects of our lives: energy, agriculture, environment, health, Earth resources, Earth management, security and safety, emergencies and rescues, trade, banks, speculation on world markets, peace, family and human development, water resources protection, youth, education, justice, science and technology, finance, human resources, ethics, global rights, sustainable development, industry, and the manufacturing of products. Global ministries will be given power to rule themselves in harmony with each other.
Global Community has researched and developed several important global ministries:
* Global Ministry of Essential Services
* Ministry of Global Resources
* Ministry of Global Peace in government
* Earth Environmental Governance
* Earth Ministry of Health
* Global Ministry of Forests
* Global Ministry of Agriculture, Food Production and Distribution
* Global Civilization Ministry of Peace and Disarmament
* Ministry of Intergovernmental Affairs: Global Government of Africa
* Global Ministry of Water Resources Protection
* Global Environment Ministry
Humanity sees the need to
manage world affairs in several aspects of our lives. Today, earquakes, cyclones
and other natural disasters, as well as human made global destruction and
disasters, require a rapid and efficient response from the world to help those
in needs. All of this can be effectively accomplished when the organizational
structure of the government of each nation-state includes a Ministry of Global
Peace in government and a Global Ministry of Essential Services. We can all
co-operate together better this way when all people are prepared and able to do
so.
Because of the limited quantities of Earth resources to be made
available for this generation and the next ones, and because of environmental,
climate change, and world population concerns, there is a need to manage the
entire process of managing resources. And we all know that the amount of oil
left in the ground in the world has already passed its peak quantity. So why
waste the oil on doing things we know are nothing but a waste of energy and
often used for destruction and certainly will shorten the life span of the next
generations. A Ministry of Global Resources is needed to look after the
management of Earth resources at all stages: exploration, production,
transportation, manufacturing and distribution.
There is a multitude of
diverse Earth resources being taken from the ground and water, carried away for
processing, manufacturing, packaging, or used in some form or another by
consumers.
Having reached nearly 6.1 billion in year 2000, human
population continues to grow. UN population projections for the year 2050 range
from 7.9 billion to 10.9 billion, suggesting the extent to which we can
influence our future. More people and higher incomes worldwide are multiplying
humanity's impacts on the environment and on the natural resources that are
essential to life. The planet's fresh water, fisheries, forests and atmosphere
are already strained to their safe limits for global survival.
Based on
these trends, it is clear that the 21st century will witness even greater
pressures on natural resources. Young people increasingly want to wait to have
children and to have smaller families. Policymakers have a choice. They can do
nothing, or they can help ensure that in the 21st century the world's population
peaks with fewer than 8 billion people, simply by committing the financial
resources to meet the needs of couples who want to have smaller families later
in life.
The future of the relationship between people and critical
natural resources has begun to appear more hopeful than it has for some time.
Unfortunately, human population growth continues, meaning that more people will
be sharing such finite resources as freshwater and cropland. And in some regions
– notably in sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Asia – large families and early
pregnancies provide strong momentum for population growth that could continue
for generations to come.
It is important to manage the Earth resources in the following aspects:
1 Air
2 Water
3 Mining
4 Electromagnetic waves
5 Fisheries
6 Tourism
7 Environment
8 Forests
9 Soils
10 Fossil fuels
Scientists, tehnologists, technicians, engineers and all professionals to find sound solutions to human needs
Global Community has come to realize that peoples live in a world of increasing interdependence and our faith is intrinsically
related to the preservation of the global life-support systems for the survival of humanity and all forms of life. Global Community is calling upon
scientists, tehnologists, technicians, engineers and all professionals to:
a) create positive actions in their own fields to use the knowledge of science in a responsible manner, and
b) find sound solutions to human needs and to fulfill aspirations without misusing human knowledge.
Science has a responsibility for the well-being of humanity.
Science gives a person a set of rules, a way of thinking, a philosophy to look at the physical universe, to observe and
analyze it, and to discover its making, its functioning, and its structure. The scientific method is very reassuring to oneself.
It gives us the basic reasoning we need in order to make informed and sound policy and management decisions.
Science has a responsibility for the well-being of humanity. Science is found everywhere in our societies. Because of science, new technologies and techniques were developed and used in the market place. The products of science
take important places in all aspects of our lives and actually save lives every second. They make our lives manageable in a million difeerent
ways. Science has also played a destructive role in our history and is continuing to do so today. Science, technology and engineering are directly or indirectly responsible
for threats to our environment, for wasteful uses of the Earth's resources and for wars and conflicts in the world.
Science, technology and engineering are major forces of socio-economic change.
Science, technology and engineering are major forces of socio-economic change. They cause humanity and its social and natural environment to evolve
rapidly and, therefore, they carry serious responsibility and accountability. They are no longer regarded as benefactors of humanity. Ethical integrity has declined.
In several parts of the world people have become suspicious and are questioning abuses of various kinds. Many scientists and other professionals
have shown little regard to ethical problems arising from their work and must become responsible and accountable just like everyone else. There are no exception.
We are all asked in helping humanity and all life on Earth from complete extinction. It is a common goal.
Public funding should be directed towards very specific research projects related to the life-support system of the planet
Researchers and other professionals receive public funding for finding solutions to problems in society. Public funding should be
directed towards very specific research projects related to the life-support system of the planet and to a more sustainable biosphere.
Science, technology and engineering to state ethical responsibilties and become a voice to present and future generations
Science, technology and engineering must regain public trust, state ethical responsibilties and become a voice to present and future generations.
Continuous discussions are needed on the ethical issues related to science, technology and engineering, their practices and ideologies.
The public should be informed about research projects and their wider implications. All parties involved should collaborate with the public.
Strong legal and moral safeguards must be implemented to discourage unethical practice and the wrongly use of science, technology and engineering
for the development and manufacturing of mass destruction weapons, and for experiments which do not respect the dignity of human persons and animals.
Prohibiting all acts, research projects, technology development, which do not conform to the ideas of humanity.
Just as for human rights, the respect of the dignity of the human person is at the root of the ethics of science, technology and engineering. The Scale of Global Rights
is aimed at prohibiting all acts, research projects, technology development, which do not conform to the ideas of humanity.
There are many aspects of science, technology and engineering that must be discussed with respect to the Scale of Global Rights. For
instances: cloning of human beings, and prohibiting the making of the human body and its products as a source of financial gain.
A set of rules to balance consumption, consumer rights and responsibilities
Globalization is a process interaction which involves growing economic interdependence of countries worldwide with implications and impacts on social, cultural, political,
environmental and familial aspects and rights. With the globalization of the economy comes now the task for defining the obligations that go with the rights. This phenomenon is also
present in the arena of international finance. In this area, however, the presumed virtues of globalization are far from being materialised. Until now, no orderly or stable financial system
has been implemented. Furthermore, the current financial system does not succeed in channelling sufficient funds to finance crucial world problems such as adequate social
development in poor countries. We have assigned ourselves the task of defining a set of rules to balance consumption, consumer rights and responsibilities :
a) Socially responsible and sustainable to future generations
b) In line with the universal values defined in this Constitution
Democracy is not to be enforced by anyone and to anyone or to any global community
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 Member Nation of 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 Global Rights. On the other hand, representatives
to Global Community 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 Global Community ) that representatives to Global Community 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 Global Community.
The role of families has impacts on sustainable consumption and development
Global consumption is a very important aspect of a community's needs. Consumers should be concerned with the impact of their decisions on the environment but also
on the lives, human and Earth rights and well-being of other people. Since one of the key functions of families as a social institution is to engage in production (selling
their labour in return for wages) and consumption (using those wages to buy goods and services), then the role of families has impacts on sustainable consumption and development. This certainly limits the rights of a family and of a community.
Universal quality of life values which lead to 'human betterment' or the improvement of the human condition
Just as corporations have social responsibilities and so do consumers in societies. Consumers are socialized to improve the quality of their lives. Quality of life is a
multi-dimensional, complex and very subjective concept. For instance, someone who has changed their consumption habits to better ensure that their choices will make
a better quality of life for themselves, the environment and future generations, may be seen by others as having a lower or inferior quality of life since they have removed
themselves from the materialistic mainstream characteristic of our consumer society. Someone may feel that an absence of violence and abuse in their life leads to a
higher quality of living even though they have fewer tangible resources, money, or shelter; peace of mind and freedom from abuse has increased the quality of their daily
life relative to what it was like before. There are universal quality of life values which lead to 'human betterment' or the improvement of the human condition. In addition to
the value of species survival (human and other living organisms), they include: adequate resources, justice and equality, freedom, and peace or balance of power. A better
quality of life for all people of the Global Community is a goal for all of us.
Trade laws to facilitate cross border transactions
Consumers' rights impinge on the rights of other humans living in the Global Community. The right to choice is the consumer right that refers to the right to have a range and variety of
goods and services at competitive, fair prices and variable, satisfactory quality. In order to assure choice in the developed country markets, governments have implemented trade laws
to facilitate cross border transactions and transnational corporations (TNCs) have set up business off shore so they can lessen the cost of the production process. The goods that are
available in the developed country markets are provided by slave labour, child labour, sweatshops or in countries that allow the TNCs to forego adhering to pollution or ecological
concerns and human rights in pursuit of profit. Labour rights are abused in efforts to earn more profits. This leads to abhorrent working conditions, job insecurity and low living
standards (all human rights). Consumers in developed countries have been socialized to want more and more things to consume but have not been socialized to appreciate the impact of
their consumption choices on the human rights of other people; that is, they are not being responsible for their decisions.
Social justice is a universal value
As universal values, equality, justice and freedoms are concerned with our ability to decide, to choose values and to participate in the making of laws, and they are
dependent on the recognition of other people. These values forbid any form of discrimination on the grounds of race, nationality, sex, religion, age or mother tongue. By
accepting both values of freedom and equality we can achieve justice. One can be answerable for one's actions in a 'just' way only if judgements are given in the
framework of democratically established laws and courts. Social justice is another universal value to which Global Community aspires and accepts as a universal value.
Social justice consists in sharing wealth with a view to greater equality and the equal recognition of each individual's merits. All persons within a given society deserve
equal access to goods and services that fulfill basic human needs.
Socially responsible use of science and technology
Global Community shall explore ways of encouraging a more socially responsible use of science and technology in a number of fields,
including information technology, biotechnology and genetic engineering. It also explores corporate responsibility, often generated in
relation to social and environmental issues.
Civil and social rights and freedoms
a) Assure to each child the right to the full realization
of his or her potential.
b) Social Security for everyone to relieve the hazards
of unemployment, sickness, old age, family circumstances, disability,
catastrophies of nature, and technological change, and to allow retirement
with sufficient lifetime income for living under condi tions of human
dignity during older age.
c) Equal opportunity for leisure time for everyone; better
distribution of the work load of society so that every person may have
equitable leisure time opportunities.
d) Equal opportunity for everyone to enjoy the benefits
of scientific and technological discoveries and developments.
e) Freedom of choice in work, occupation, employment or
profession.
f) Right of privacy of person, family and association;
prohibition against surveillance as a means of political control.
g) Right to family planning and free public assistance
to achieve family planning objectives.
h) Right of habeous corpus; no ex-post-facto laws; no
double jeopardy; right to refuse self-incrimination or the incrimination
of another.
i) Freedom of assembly, association, organization, petition
and peaceful demonstration.
j) Freedom to vote without duress, and freedom for political
organization and campaigning without censorship or recrimination.
k) Freedom to profess and promote political beliefs or
no political beliefs.
Democratic rights, and equality rights
a) Everyone has the right to a nationality;
b) Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others;
c) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property;
d) Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association;
e) No one may be compelled to belong to an association;
f) Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives;
g) Everyone has the right of equal access to public service in his country;
h) Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national
effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization
and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights
indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality;
i) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to
just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment;
j) Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work;
k) Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of
human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection;
l) Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests;
m) Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay; and
n) Everyone is entitled to a social and international order.
Section 6. Cultural and religious rights
Cultural and religious differences can promote human and Earth rights.
Traditional customs and standards could burden the sustainability of all life on Earth. They could burden Earth society or any society forever, and holds individuals in a
straitjacket. We cannot accept that. No one can! There are choices to be made and you must make them. Cultures can develop and can go on developing. Even religious
beliefs may evolve. We are living now and we are able to create these changes. Cultural and religious differences cannot be a reason or an excuse or a pretext for not
respecting human and Earth rights including and most importantly the ecological rights. Quite the contrary, all kinds of cultures may promote human and Earth rights.
They are different in their achievements, but they are equal in dignity where they are expressions of freedom. At any time or in any given place, men, women and children
use their culture to invent new ways of making human and Earth rights a living reality. Diversity enriches us if it respects the dignity of each individual, and if it takes
account of human and Earth rights as a whole.
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to sustain the planet and all life.
Religious and environmental communities have formed a powerful alliance for sustainability.
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Intrinsic human cooperation at the core of creative cultural evolution promises to give rise to a new
epoch for humanity defined by societal sustainability and lasting world peace. The biological
basis for human cooperation and symbiotical relationships both validate and underlie evolutionary panaltruism in and beyond
the twenty-first century. Twenty-first century education centered on human empathy and
compassion and a terror-free global community by the year 2010 garners important
impetus from The Golden Rule principle.
The Golden Rule principle, also called the Ethic of Reciprocity by theologians, says: "Dont do to others what you wouldn't want done
to you." Or treat others the way you would want to be treated. The Golden Rule has a moral aspect found in each religion or faith.
It could be used as a global ethic. There are analogues for the golden rule in 13
faiths. These 13 analogue statements are passages found in the scriptures or writings that promote this ethos. Every faith is
unanimous of saying that every individual should be treated with the same respect and dignity we all seek for ourselves. As a
first step in bringing together religious leaders all around the world, the Global Community is presenting here 13 statements that
unify us all in one Golden Rule.
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. Global Community is establishing a symbiotical relationship between spirituality and science, between our heart and mind,
and SoulLife, 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.
Our next objective will be to find statements from all religions that promote the respect, stewardship, protection, ethical and moral responsibility to life and of the environment, the Earth global
life-support systems, and statements that promote a responsible Earth management. We are also asking for specific statements on environmental conservation such as those expressed by the Islamic religion.
Societal sustainability in addressing international terrorism and the creation
of a democratically planned global economy marshals previously untapped human
cooperation, energy, and resources. Investigating, understanding, and eradicating the root
causes of international terrorism entails objective analyses of all social dichotomies ranging in
realm from religious dogmas, to political ideologies, to economic systems.
Encouragement for cultural diversity
Freedom for peaceful self-determination for minorities, refugees and dissenters
Freedom to profess, practice and promote religious or religious beliefs or no religion or religious belief
Fundamental freedoms, and language rights
(1) Everyone has the right to education. Education shall
be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary
education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall
be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible
to all on the basis of merit.
(2) Education shall be directed to the full development
of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human
rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance
and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall
further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.
(3) Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of
education that shall be given to their children.
Right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community
Everyone has the right freely to participate
in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in
scientific advancement and its benefits.
Freedom of thought and conscience
Freedom of thought and conscience, speech, press, writing,
communication, expression, publication, broadcasting, telecasting, and
cinema, except as an overt part of or incitement to violence, armed
riot or insurrection.
A crime against the natural world is a sin
To commit a crime against the natural world is a sin. It is a sin for humans to:
a) cause species to become extinct and to destroy the biological diversity.
b) degrade the integrity of Earth by causing changes in its climate, by stripping the Earth of
its natural forests, or destroying its wetlands
c) injure other humans with disease
d) contaminate the Earth's waters, its land, its air, and its life, with poisonous substances
We have become un-Creators. Earth is in jeopardy at our hands.
The special responsibility that falls to all Global Community citizens
This repentance of
our social and ecological sins will acknowledge the
special responsibility that falls to those of us who are citizens of
the world.
SoulLife's sacred Earth is the moral assignment of our time
Global Community firmly believes that addressing the degradation of
SoulLife's sacred Earth is the moral assignment of our time
comparable to the Civil Rights struggles of the 1960s, the worldwide movement
to achieve equality for women, or ongoing efforts to control weapons of mass destruction in a post-Hiroshima world.
Ecological Affirmations of Faith
a) We stand with awe and gratitude as members
of SoulLife's bountiful and good creation. We rejoice in the splendor
and mystery of countless species, our common
creaturehood, and the interdependence of all that SoulLife makes. We believe
that the Earth is home for all and that it has been created intrinsically good.
b) We lament that the human species is shattering
the splendid gifts of this web of life, ignoring our responsibility for
the well being of all life, while destroying species and their habitats at a rate never before known in human history.
c) We believe that the Holy Spirit, who animates all
of creation, breathes in us and can empower us to participate in working
toward the flourishing of Earth's community of life. We believe that people are called to
forge ways of being human that enable socially just and ecologically sustainable
communities to flourish for generations to come.
d) We lament that we have rejected this vocation, and
have distorted our SoulLife-given abilities and knowledge in order to ransack
and often destroy ecosystems and human communities rather than to protect, strengthen, and nourish them.
e) We believe that, in boundless love that hungers for
justice, SoulLife acts to restore and redeem all creation (including
human beings). SoulLife incarnate affirms all creation, which becomes a sacred window to
eternity. In the cross and resurrection we know that SoulLife is drawn into
life's most brutal and broken places and there brings forth healing and liberating power.
That saving action restores right relationships among all members of the whole creation.
f) We confess that instead of living and proclaiming
this salvation through our very lives and worship, we have abused and exploited
the Earth and people on the margins of power and privilege, altering climates, extinguishing species,
and jeopardizing Earth's capacity to sustain life as we know and love it.
g) We believe that the created world is sacred-a revelation
of SoulLife's power and gracious presence filling all things. This
sacred quality of creation demands moderation and sharing, urgent antidotes for our excess in consumption
and waste, reminding us that economic justice is an essential condition of ecological integrity.
h) We cling to SoulLife's trustworthy promise to restore, renew, and fulfill all that SoulLife creates. We long for and work toward the day when
churches, will respond to the groaning of creation and to SoulLife's passionate desire to renew
the face of the Earth.
i) We look forward to the day when the lamentations and groans of creation
will be over, justice with peace will reign, humankind will nurture not betray the Earth, and all of creation will sing for joy.
Eco-justice
Global Community is compelled to seek eco-justice, the integration of social
justice and ecological integrity.
a) The quest for eco-justice also implies the development of
a set of human environmental rights, since one of the essential conditions
of human well being is ecological integrity. These moral entitlements include protection of
soils, air, and water from diverse pollutants; the preservation of biodiversity;
and governmental actions ensuring the fair and frugal use of creation's riches.
b) Sustainability -- living within the bounds of planetary capacities indefinitely,
in fairness to both present and future generations of life. SoulLife's
covenant is with humanity and all other living creatures for all future
generations. The concern for sustainability forces us to be responsible for the truly long-term impacts of our lifestyles and policies.
c) Bioresponsibility-- extending the covenant of justice to include all
other life forms as beloved creatures of SoulLife and as expressions of SoulLife's
presence, wisdom, power, and glory. We do not determine nor declare creation's
value, and other creatures should not be treated merely as instruments for our needs and wants. Other species have their
own integrity. They deserve a fair share of Earth's bounty- a share that allows a biodiversity of life to thrive along with human communities.
d) Humility--recognizing, as an antidote to arrogance, the limits of human
knowledge, technological ingenuity, and moral character. We are not the masters of creation.
Knowing human capacities for error and evil, humility keeps our own species in check for the good of the whole of Earth as SoulLife's creation.
e) Generosity--sharing Earth's riches to promote and defend
the common good in recognition of SoulLife's purposes for the whole
creation and SoulLife's gift of abundant life. Humans are not collections of isolated individuals,
but rather communities of socially and ecologically interdependent beings. A measure of a good society is not whether it
privileges those who already have much, but rather whether it privileges
the most vulnerable members of creation. Essentially, these tasks require good government
at all levels, from local to regional to national to Global Community .
f) Frugality -- restraining economic production and consumption for the
sake of eco-justice. Living lives filled with SoulLife's Spirit
liberates us from the illusion of finding
wholeness in the accumulation of material things and brings us to the
reality of SoulLife's just purposes. Frugality connotes moderation, sufficiency, and temperance. Many call it simplicity.
It demands the careful conservation of Earth's riches, comprehensive
recycling, minimal harm to other species, material efficiency and the elimination of waste,
and product durability. Frugality is the corrective to a cardinal vice
of the age: prodigality - excessively taking from and wasting SoulLife's creation. On
a finite planet, frugality is an expression of love and an instrument for
justice and sustainability: it enables all life to thrive together
by sparing and sharing global goods.
g) Solidarity -- acknowledging that we are increasingly bound together
as a global community in which we bear responsibility for one another's
well being. The social and environmental problems of the age must be addressed with cooperative
action at all levels-local, regional, national and Global Community . Solidarity is a commitment to the global
common good through international cooperation.
h) Compassion -- sharing the joys and sufferings of all Earth's
members and making them our own. Global Community sees the vulnerable and excluded. From compassion flows inclusive caring and
careful service to meet the needs of others.
Short term solution to saving the world, the Scale of Global Right.
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Global Community ethics embrace the process of understanding what is truly important for humanity's survival on our planet, and that is living a life with the Scale of Global Rights as the primary guide.
Global Community offers both a short term solution and a long term solution to the people of all nations.
Both solutions have been integrated into the Scale of Global Rights ,
itself a necessary first step which must be approved by all of us.
The Scale of Global Rights contains six (6) sections. Section 1 has more importance than all other sections below, and so on.
Concerning sections 1, 2, and 3, it shall be the Global Community highest priority to guarantee these rights to their respective Member Nations and to have proper legislation and
implement and enforce global law as it applies and as shown in the Global Constitution.
Section 1. Global [ Ecological, environmental, protection of life-support systems ] rights
Section 2. Primordial human rights
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safety and security
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have shelter
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'clean' energy
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a 'clean' and healthy environment
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drink fresh water
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breath clean air
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eat a balance diet
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basic clothing
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universal health care and education, and
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employment for all.
Since year 1985, the Global Community has organized the Global Dialogue to probe the Peoples of the world, people from all nations, as to what it will take to make
living on Earth sustainable, now and for the next generations. Results were published in our Proceedings.
Global Rights year one is new impetus of the Global Community to educate everyone about the need for a change in thinking
and of doing things amongst all
nations. We need to realize what is a priority, what is the most important, and what is the least important for our survival. We need a clear vision. We need a common
vision. And we must all change! There are many important aspects of our lives we can longer do, or should never do anymore. They are destructive. Humanity and all life
can no longer afford activities that destroy life and the global environment. And there are other activities we must do, certainly thousands of them, to assure the survival of life on Earth.
In view of the planetary state of emergency we all must change, we must do things differently to give life on Earth a better survival chance.
And this is what Global Rights year one is about: to establish global fundamentals and a clear vision to follow.
Perhaps the Scale of Global Rights
represents the strongest pillar of our vision.
In 1985, the Scale of Global Rights was first proposed as a replacement to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. After several decades of research and development,
many global dialogues, we still find the Scale as the best solution to global problems.
Today, we are presenting once more the Scale as the best educating tool to bring about the change the people of the world need to achieve for their own survival.
Values foundation of the Scale of Global Rights
On the Scale of Global Rights,
primordial human rights and the protection of the global life-support systems and ecological rights are on top of the Scale. They are the
most important aspects on the Scale.
Primordial human rights are those human rights that individuals have by virtue of their very existence as human beings:
- safety and security
- have shelter
- 'clean' energy
- 'clean' and healthy environment
- drink fresh water
- breath clean air
- eat a balance diet
- basic clothing
- universal health care and education
- employment for all
These rights
are in a separate categorie and distinct than ecological rights, the right of the greatest number of people,
economic rights, social rights, cultural rights and religious rights. Ecological and primordial
human rights are the only rights that have existed unchanged throughout the evolutionary
origin of our species. Any major change would have threatened our very existence. All
other human rights listed here are rights created by human beings and can be changed
depending of new circumstances; they are not stagnant but are rather flexible and adaptive,
and they can evolve. Ecological and primordial human rights of this generation and of future
generations are therefore much more important than any other human rights existing now
and in the future.
Throughout the history of humanity, the rights of human beings have been
defined and enshrined with reference to the values of the dignity
of each individual and of freedom, equality and justice. These values
are universal. Global Community has accepted
and enshrined them into its own ways of behaving and dealing with all peoples.
Cultures and societies differ so much that their expression takes varying
forms, but diversity does not affect the foundation of inalienable values
constituted by human and Earth rights. Each individual is recognized as a representative
of humankind.
Human dignity resides in each of us, and this dignity
must be recognized and respected by all.
How meaningful is the right to life or to participation in political life if poverty, gender inequality, destitution and epidemics prevent individuals from enjoying freedom of movement, freedom to vote, to marry and so on? The economic and social rights are the essential prerequisite for the effectiveness and exercise of all other rights (other than the protection of the global life-support systems and ecological rights) recognized for human beings. The developing countries are having a harder time than others to achieve the exercise of these rights on a lasting basis, with the problems of economic globalization presenting new challenges. We must therefore beware of enforcing economic rights alone to the detriment of individual civil rights and the rights of all individuals to decide their own fate and the future of their country, their political rights. The universality of human rights recognizes the right of all individuals to participate in the cultural life of their community and of other country, to receive education and training, and to be informed.
Primordial human rights are necessarily human needs but not all human needs are primordial human rights. To determine rights requires an understanding of needs and reponsibilities and their importance.
As universal values, equality, justice and freedoms are concerned with
our ability to decide, to choose values and to participate in the making
of laws, and they are dependent on the recognition of other people. These
values forbid any form of discrimination on the grounds of race, nationality,
sex, religion, age or mother tongue. By accepting both values of freedom
and equality we can achieve justice. One can be answerable for one's
actions in a 'just' way only if judgements are given in the framework of
democratically established laws and courts. Social justice is another
universal value to which the Global Community aspires and accepts
as a universal value. Social justice consists in sharing wealth with a
view to greater equality and the equal recognition of each individual's
merits. All persons within a given society deserve equal access to goods
and services that fulfill basic human needs.
To determine rights requires an understanding of needs and reponsibilities and their importance. The Scale of Global Rights
is the best guidance for continuing this process. The Scale shows social
values in order of importance and so will help us understand the rights of a community. What are the universal needs of a person, family, a community?
Primordial human rights are necessarily human needs but not all human needs are primordial human rights.
Nevertheless there are very specific primordial human needs. First there are the material needs, the requisites for a dignified life and truly those needs are the primordial human rights.
Then there are the nonmaterial needs which can evolve, and are flexible and adaptive:
- social justice
- basic health care
- communications facilities in the community
- well-rounded education
- cultural protection
- spiritual and religious acceptance and
- human and Earth rights
All families need shelter, food, language, body of
knowledge, certain skills, a source of income. Security of the home is an important aspect for any family and the global community
it belongs to. Primordial human needs raise the question of interacting universal responsibilities. In terms of parenthood,
parents must raised their children mentally and physically healthy. It
is a responsibility to do so. Which also means each local community must have an educational
system to help parents raise the child.
The Scale is the primary guide for the decision-making process.
The Scale of Global Rights contains six (6) sections. Section 1 has more importance than all other sections below, and so on.
More importance is given to the sections higher on the Scale, and the Scale is the primary guide for the decision-making process.
Global Community believes that
the introduction of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights has
been a great step in humanity's evolution to better itself. But now is
time to leave it behind and reach to our next step, that is, the Scale
of Global Rights.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
resides in the fact that it gives equal emphasis to cultural rights,
economic and social rights, and civil and political rights.
Global Community asks how meaningful is the right
to life or to participation in political life if the ecological base
(the base of life) and the global life-support systems are seriously threatened:
* wilderness is vastly disappearing; species of the fauna and flora becoming extinct
* fisheries are out of control and will cease to be a part of our diet within a few decades;
* the global Oxygen supply in the air we breathe is dangerously affected by both the burning
of petroleum products and deforestation; our ways of life affect the capacity for photosynthesis;
* losses of forest cover and of biological diversity;
* climate change affects everyone and everything;
* the ozone layer is dangerously damaged
by man-made chemicals;
* global warming causes major local
and global problems and forces the climate to change;
* our drinking (fresh) water is becoming
more polluted and the increase in population requires much more fresh unpolluted
water; our ways of life affect dangerously the water cycle;
* clean air no longer exists; air contains
chemicals affecting life all over the planet;
* farmers do not generally engage on
their own in investment in soil conservation and despite all other efforts
the world is losing its best soils; global food production systems should be made to feed people as oppose to be competing for money;
* everyone wants to consume more products and thus use more of Earth essential resources which
are becoming much harder to obtain and create more pollution and wastes, and no one seems to know what to do
with wastes; wastes of all kind including nuclear and release of radiation;
* wars destroy not only human lives and community infrastructures
but also other lifeforms and the environment; wars feed the economies of war makers, weapons manufacturers, and predator nations in control of the
last 100 hundred years left of oil supplies in the world; and
* 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.
Global Community found evident that
the ecological base is the essential prerequisite for the effectiveness
and exercise of all rights recognized for human beings. The stewardship
of the ecological base has to be given priority before the fulfilment of
various economic and social wishes. Demands resulting from the socio-economic
system of a particular country have to find their limits in the protection
of the global ecosystem. Vital interests of future generations have to
be considered as having priority before less vital interests of the present
generation. Supply chains have to be designed in a way, that the goods
can enter after usage or consumption into natural or industrial recycling
processes. If serious damages to persons, animals, plants and the ecosystem
cannot be excluded, an action or pattern of behaviour should be refrained
from. A measure for supplying goods or services should choose a path which
entails the least possible impact on the ecological and social system concerned.
This way functioning proven systems will not be disturbed, and unnecessary
risks will not be taken. Supply strategies consuming less resources should
have preference before those enhancing more resource consumption. When there is a need to find a
solution to a problem or a concern, a sound solution would be to
choose a measure or conduct an action, if possible, which causes reversible
damage as opposed to a measure or an action causing an irreversible loss.
The Scale is a balancing process to sustain all life on the planet now and future generations
Concerning sections 1, 2, and 3, it shall be Global Community highest priority to guarantee these rights to Member Nations and to have proper lesgislation and
implement and enforce global law as it applies.
Section 1. Ecological rights and the protection of the global life-support systems
Section 2. Primordial human rights
- safety and security
- have shelter
- 'clean' energy
- 'clean' and healthy environment
- drink fresh water
- breath clean air
- eat a balance diet
- basic clothing
- universal health care and education
- employment for all
Section 3. The ecological rights, the protection of the global life-support systems and the primordial human rights of future generations
Concerning Sections 4, 5 and 6, it shall be the aim of Global Community to secure these other
rights for all global citizens within the federation of all nations, but
without immediate guarantee of universal achievement and enforcement. These
rights are defined as Directive Principles, obligating the Global Community
to pursue every reasonable means for universal realization and implementation.
Section 4. Community rights, rights of direct democracy, the right that the greatest number of people has by virtue of its number (50% plus one) and after voting representatives democratically.
Section 5. Economic rights
(business and consumer rights, and their responsibilities and accountabilities)
and social rights (civil and political rights)
Section 6. Cultural rights and religious rights
Scale of Global Rights definition
On the Scale of Global Rights
primordial human rights and the protection of the global life-support systems (ecological rights) are on top of the Scale. They are the
most important aspects on the Scale.
For instance, the existing and future uses of water are constantly challenged;
balancing supply and demand is made even harder by the amounts of pollution
found in the air, land and waters. A large part of our body is made of
water, and we cannot live without water; therefore water is a primordial
human right by our very nature. In order to avoid conflicts and wars
over drinking (fresh)water, fresh water has been categorized as a primordial
human right. Industrial pollution plays a major role in the deterioration
of nature but this time the level of pollution is above the carrying capacity
of a healthy ecosystem. Pollution also affects significantly human health and
all lifeforms on Earth. Every person needs Oxygen to live so clean air
is certainly also a primordial human right by our very nature.
Control over the amounts of greengases produced by human activities and let go into our air must be paramount to governance and management of Earth.The production of greengases involves the destruction of the Oxygen in our air and its replacement by CO2, a deadly chemical.
CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere have been measured at an altitude of about 4,000 meters on the peak of Mauna Loa mountain in Hawaii since 1958. The measurements at this location, remote from local sources of pollution, have clearly shown that atmospheric concentrations of CO2 are increasing. The mean concentration of approximately 316 parts per million by volume (ppmv) in 1958 rose to approximately 369 ppmv in 1998. The annual variation is due to CO2 uptake by growing plants. The uptake is highest in the northern hemisphere springtime. Today in 2013, the concentration is 400 ppmv. And after all the dirty tars sands oil of Alberta has been consumed, the concentration will be over 600 ppmv, i.e. the end of civilization as we know it, and the end of most lifeforms on the planet.
CO2 concentration: Mauna Loa curve
Long term solution to saving the world, Global Parliament.
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Making clear to all people what they
can no longer do
and must do for life survival on Earth.
Global Parliament
The House of Elected Representatives, the House of Advisers, the Earth Executive Council, and the Federation of Global Governments together form Global Parliament. The Peoples of Global Community elect, nominate or appoint their representatives to Global Parliament.
1. Global Parliament shall enact legislation, and exercise the budgetary function, as well as functions of political control and consultation as laid down in the Constitution.
2. Global Parliament shall be elected by direct universal suffrage of all Global Community citizens in free and secret ballot for a term of five years. Representation of the Global Community citizens shall be of one Elected Representative per million people. Sufficiently in advance of the Parliamentary elections, the Global Parliament shall adopt by unanimity, on the basis of a proposal from Global Parliament and with its consent, a decision establishing the composition of Global Parliament, respecting the principles set out above.
3. Global Parliament shall elect its President and its officers from among its members.
4. Global Parliament shall create, alter, abolish or consolidate the departments, commissions, offices, agencies and other parts of the several organs of Global Parliament, subject to the specific provisions of Global Parliament Constitution.
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Global Parliament Constitution
A working Global Parliament Constitution is the only way for us all to guarantee essential services, Justice, and protection to every home. Global Parliament is not a World Government or Earth Government. No! It is the Federation of Global Governments. Global Parliament and its Constitution were researched and developed from fundamental principles as opposed to kitchen recipe types of Constitution that follow a set of instructions for a world parliament of some kind. Or as opposed to using the old USA Constitution with its military overtones to invading the world and lobbyists base democracy.
Some of those principles we developed are "Global Community" and the "Scale of Global Rights". That is what differentiates most our proposal from others. The Federation and its Global Parliament operate as per those principles. The definition of Global Community concept is truly the 21st century "philosophy of life" framework, some called it the religion of the third millennium, others called it the politics of the future generations now.
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Global Parliament and Essential Services
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Federation of Global Governments
The Federation of Global Governments represents the nations of the world. Candidates to the Federation are elected or appointed by Member Nations. The Federation is the place of meeting between Global Governments. We want each Global Government to take a larger share of responsibility of the specific region where it operates, and be more accountable to the people of that region. And we want a Global Government to be made of wealthy nations as well as nations in need of help. Be compassionate. Each Global Government is obliged to offer Essential Services to the people of its member nations.
House of Elected Representatives
The House of Elected Representatives represents Global Community directly and equally. Candidates to the House of Elected Representatives are elected democratically. Representatives shall be elected by direct universal suffrage of all Global Community citizens in free and secret ballot for a term of five years. Representation of the Global Community citizens shall be of one Elected Representative per million people.
House of Advisers
Candidates to the House of Advisers are nominated by teachers, students, or professional organizations. The House of Advisers goal is to represent the highest good and best interests of humanity as a whole.
Earth Executive Council
Members of the Earth Executive Council shall consist of a representative of each Member Nation at ministerial level.
Introduction
The Federation of Global Governments is now applying more emphasis on the urgent need from the people of all nations to give everyone essential services. Global Community
has already declared a planetary state of emergency to that effect.
We have shown that several events have contributed to the planetary state of emergency:
A) widespread poverty and hunger in more than half the world population
B) The global warming of the planet due to human activities
C) Climate change
D) Economic and military invasion of nations by the United States and NATO
E) Absence of fair and democratic global governance at the United Nations and European Union
F) Our global environment and global life-support systems are threatened by:
- any of the above mentioned events
- pollution worldwide
- the U.S.A. military exploded war heads over the bottom of the Indian ocean, and that scenario
created a tsunami wave in 2004.
Just a test, said the captain of the submarine that did it.
- the U.S.A. military exploded war heads to melt the Polar Cap and glaciers. All nations capable of such an extreme action
against humanity and all life on Earth must be disarmed and pay for the independent global investigation. The United States is the only nation that would profit from the melting of the North
Pole and is capable of such an extreme action against humanity and all life. Blood resources.
Earth management will become a spiritual and a natural process.
Earth is our most precious and the one and only place we can live for now. Earth is our home. Earth
management will become a spiritual and a natural process whereby each person is responsible and accountable for its management the
best they can. Peace in the world and Earth management have for too long been in the hands of and affected by government and
business leaders, in the hands of a few people on the planet, as opposed to being in the hands of all of us (over 7 billion people on
Earth) working together to keep our planet healthy. We cannot allow ourselves to let governments and other organizations take away our responsibility for managing Earth. It would be like giving the key of our planet to people who would be looking after their own self-interests and not bother with what is truly important for life survival on our planet. We are the keepers of the Earth, and we want to govern and manage sustainably our planet.
Moral values, peace and sustainability.
Global Civilization claims that everyone on Earth should be able to live in peace. This peace movement is about courage. Not the courage it takes to go into battle but the courage
to organize resistance to war when a bloody taste for it inflames the world, and the threat of prison in a nation where the global rights and freedom of expression have diminished significantly. It is about the courage to say NO to the war industry. It is an industry that destroys life on Earth, corrupts society, and violates morality. The war industry is the "mother of all evils" of our world. It must be shelved. War products and equipment from all nations must be decommissioned. Join the Peace Movement of Global Civilization.
Military intervention
in the affairs of other nations is wrong. There are other ways, there are peaceful ways, ways that are not based on profit-making and the gain of power for itself.
We have the responsibility of managing Earth. Everyone shares responsibility for the present and future well-being of life within Global Civilization. When there is a need to find a solution to a problem or a concern, a sound solution would be to
choose a measure or conduct an action, if possible, which causes reversible damage as oppose to a measure or an action causing an
irreversible loss.
Global Civilization has extended the idea of sustainability to be a moral and ethical state as well as an economic and environmental state. We invite everyone and every organization to participate openly without fear. Paticipate in the process of the Global Dialogue. Again today we ask everyone throughout the world to scrutinize all of their values. No exception! You are asked to create new thoughts that will sustain Earth, humanity and all life.
Moral values can be identified across cultures, even if we do not accept a global understanding of principles: values including integrity, trustworthiness, benevolence, justice, and fairness. These values can be resources for finding common ground between believers and nonbelievers, and for conflicts needing of ethics to resolve their problems.
From now on, building global communities for peace require understanding of global problems this generation is facing. There are several major problems: conflicts and wars, no tolerance and compassion for one another, world overpopulation, overconsumption in developed nations, unemployment,
insufficient protection and prevention for global health, scarcity of resources and drinking water, poverty, fauna and flora species disappearing at a fast rate,
global warming and global climate change, global pollution, permanent lost of the Earth's genetic heritage, and the destruction of the global life-support systems and the eco-systems of the planet. We need to build global communities that will manage themselves with the understanding of those problems.
All aspects are interrelated: global peace, global sustainability, global rights and the environment. The jobless are more concerned
with ending starvation, finding a proper shelter and employment, and helping their children to survive. Environmental issues become
meaningless to the jobless. In reality, all concerns are interrelated because the ecology of the planet has no boundaries. Obviously, as soon as our environment was destroyed or polluted beyond repair, human suffering is next.
A planetary state of emergency.
Our goal for peace in the world can only be reached by resolving global problems. Those problems have brought up a planetary state of emergency.
In view of the planetary state of emergency, shown and declared by Global Civilization, we all must change, we must do things differently to give life on Earth a better
survival chance and bring about the event of peace amongst us all.
There are also short term and long term solutions to resolving global problems. The Scale of Global Rights is certainly the first solution to this end, and it will be entrenched in Global Law.
The Global Protection Agency will enforce the law. And that is a long term solution to the planetary state of emergency.
And that is also how we can solve the global problems facing this generation, thus largely improving the quality of life of the next
generations, and that is how we will bring about the event of peace amongst us all.
Truly, the world is on the threshold of a global revolution, and needs to
proceed with the non-violent approach. Global Civilization needs to build an economic democracy
based firmly on the basic principle that the Earth belongs equally to
everyone as a birthright. The Earth is for all people to labor and live
on and should never be the possession of any individual, corporation,
or uncaring government, any more than the air or water, or any other
Earth natural resources. An individual, or a business should have
no more than is needed for a healthy living.
Global citizens have respect for the community of living beings.
As far as Global Civilization was concerned, cultural and religious
differences cannot be a reason or an excuse or a pretext for not respecting
human rights and, most importantly, ecological rights. Quite
the contrary, all kinds of cultures may promote human rights and especially
cultural rights. They are different in their achievements, but they are
equal in dignity where they are expressions of freedom. At any time
or in any given place, men, women and children use their culture to invent
new ways of making human rights a living reality. Diversity enriches us
if it respects the dignity of each individual, and if it takes account
of human rights as a whole.
There is such a thing as Justice! Global Civilization ethics offer the possibility of a better individual and community, a global order with fairness and Justice, and a wolrd with hope and love. A world where everything make sense in all areas of life, for families and communities, for races, nations and all religions. Peoples are asked to live a life following common standards and fundamental rights and laws.
Building a sustainable Global Civilization.
In order to build a sustainable Global Civilization, each individual, each local community, and national governments of the world must initiate their commitment to Global Civilization, and support the implementation of the Scale of Global Rights principles with an international legally
binding instrument on environment and development. This binding instrument is now called Global Law.
Building global communities requires a mean to enforce global law that protects all life on Earth.
Global Protection Agency (GPA) will train and lead a global force, bypassing traditional peacekeeping and military bodies such as the United Nations and NATO.
This is a great opportunity for globallateralism.
As we enact global law, we will begin to take on a much deeper kind of global leadership, one that earns more respect than envy and more gratitude than hatred, one that can catapult the whole planet forward into a future where war is no longer thinkable between nation-states and a legitimate and beneficial global government is able to cope with global problems.
A planetary biodiversity zone.
Global Civilization has established a planetary biodiversity zone now under the protection of the Global Protection Agency. We have declared a moratorium on all development in the zone, including all drilling, military testing, and any other destructive uses of the ecosystems.
The planetary biodiversity zone includes:
- North Pole region,
- South Pole region,
- all oceans,
- all forests,
- all lakes,
- all rivers and connecting streams,
- all wetlands and grasslands, and
- living organisms and ecosystems in all of the above.
The people of all nations are required to respect the moratorium until global law has been completed to include regulations to be enforced by the GPA.
An efficient emergency response to help at the global level.
As a first step to getting help, all nations can and should approve the first three sections on the Scale of Global Rights. The approval would supersede the political and physical borders of participating member nations. Global Protection Agency would have the approval from all member nations to give immediate help, thus bypassing local government protocols. Somewhat like an emergency unit but at the global level. That is what those first three sections mean. They represent an efficient and immediate emergency response to help.
First, participating member nations need to give their approval to the GPA.
The GPA is a global organization much like the World Trade Organization (WTO) for trade between nations, the World Health Organization (WHO) for health,
or the European Union, North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFT), South American Community of Nations (SACON) for trade and economics. The GPA is a short term solution, an immediate and efficient response to help. There are also long term solutions. As with the short term solution, the most significant long term solution is also related to
the Scale of Global Rights. The Scale was entrenched in the Global Constitution and is thus the fundamental guide to Global Law.
Now the Scale of Global Rights is a long term solution and is also a part of the Global Movement to Help of Global Civilization.
The Scale was designed to help all life on Earth.
An ecological - environmental equilibrium that has sustained life on Earth.
Our planet is populated with living beings consisting of millions of different life forms interacting with each
other to survive, thus forming an intricate web of life in different ecosystems on the planet. The interaction and interdependence between life
forms were the driving force that created and maintained an ecological - environmental equilibrium which has sustained life on Earth for millions of years enabling it to evolve, flourish and diversify. And today, Global Civilization is promoting values of Earth’s diversity in all its forms, the non-human as well as the human.
On Earth’s surface exists a diversity of arctic, temperate and tropical ecosystems with many different varieties of plants, animals, and human beings, all of which are dependent on soils, waters and local climates. Biodiversity, the diversity of organisms, depends on maintenance of
ecodiversity, the diversity of ecosystems. Cultural diversity
– which in effect is a form of biodiversity – is the historical result
of humans fitting their activities, thoughts and language
to specific geographic ecosystems. Therefore, whatever
degrades and destroys ecosystems is both a biological
and a cultural source.
Today the ecological languages of aboriginal people, and the cultural diversity they represent, are as endangered as tropical forest species and for the same reasons: the world is being homogenized, ecosystems are being simplified, diversity is declining and being lost forever.
Along with the lost of life, there is also the urgent human need to survive, and for this reason Global
Civilization has formed the "Global Civilization Movement to Help".
We have shown that several events have contributed to this new movement:
A)
widespread poverty and hunger in more than half the world population,
B) The global warming of the planet due to human activities,
C) Climate change,
D) Economic and military invasion of nations by the United States and NATO,
E) Absence of fair and democratic global governance at the United Nations and European Union, and
F) Our global environment and global life-support systems are threatened daily.
The Global Civilization Movement to Help is showing us that humanity needs and wants are so destructive to itself and to all life on Earth that something significant must be done to protect this amazing life heritage, not just for ourselves but the next generations.
Over the last Century humanity has been depleting and degrading the natural capital of Earth, rich agricultural soils, its groundwater stored during ice ages, and its biodiversity.
Overpopulation and increasing per capita consumption are major reasons for the depleting of resources. Politicians and business executives are under the delusion that such a disastrous end to the modern human enterprise and institutions can be avoided by technological fixes that will allow the population and the economy to grow forever. The recent event that brought down the American economy is a signal of desperation, a wake-up call, something has gone very wrong, and we need to make things right. People from Wall Street live a dream life. Our current way of life is unsustainable. We are the first species that will have to self-consciously impose limits on ourselves if we are to survive.
Can we really believe this world can go forward indefinitely, a few decades?
We are seeing the end of the era of cheap fossil energy, and there is no viable large-scale replacements for that energy.
The health of the planet is not what Wall Street is showing us. The reality is that we see more trends such as :
- groundwater contamination,
- high levels of toxicity,
- topsoil loss,
- widening inequality in the world,
- the intensity of the violence and social chaos,
- war over oil and gas,
- extensive and destructive forest fires and weather systems,
- floods, and
- the desperation that so many feel at every level of society.
Is this a sustainable system? We need to recognize the
failure of fundamental systems, and to abandon the notion that what there is to do is recalibrate the institutions that structure our lives today. We need to realize that the way we thought things would work out truly is gone. Capitalism is at the core of this unsustainable system. It
gives rise to the high-energy/mass-consumption configuration of privileged societies.
We must set-up measures to stop speculators from benefiting from the misery of others, by punishing
corrupt politicians, and by collectively understanding that bankers are rich because we have placed our money in their hands. Ultimately, unless we
begin to see the world as a whole, in which
things are truly interconnected, our governments will continue their hostilities, oil resources will keep on decreasing, and when the time comes for us to
complain, we will be faced with the guns of the police
whom we have helped to create with the payment of our taxes.
It's time for us to come to terms with reality.
We need ways of organizing ourselves to help us live in a world with less energy and fewer material goods.
We need to recover a deep sense of community that has disappeared from many of our lives.
The world is in global crisis and a planetary state of emergency. We are exploiting our natural resources, minerals and fuels faster than we are gaining access to alternative sources.
We are polluting the natural environment faster than the environment can regenerate itself to reach the level suitable for human needs.
We are changing the global climate dangerously. Our attitude and way of life show a moral degradation toward
the existing forms of life on the planet. It's time for us to protect what is left to protect: life itself on Earth.
This was the reason for the creation of a planetary biodiversity zone.
Global Civilization has shown the benefits of biodiversity to humanity and hope this approach will motivate others to help create the zone.
Policies to decrease world population.
Perhaps the most important step towards achieving global sustainability now and for future generations is to control our population
growth. World overpopulation is now at the turning point and requires from each and every one of us making a commitment to a statement of rights,
responsibilities and accountabilities, and of belonging to Global Civilization, the human family.
Humanity has to regulate its population by means that are voluntary
and benign and has to take along with a fair proportion of other lifeforms.
Proper Earth management will certainly be a necessary tool to achieve our
goal. If not there will be a collapse of humanity and of the environment.
From now on every global decision has tremendous consequences on our future.
Comprehensive population policies are an essential element in a world development strategy that should combine access to reproductive health services,
to education and economic opportunities, to improved energy and natural resource technologies, and to healthyer models of consumption and the "good life."
Despite humanity's success in feeding a growing world population, the natural resources on which life depends, such as fresh water, cropland, fisheries and forests, are increasingly depleted or strained. In this millennium, population growth continues, meaning that more people will be sharing such finite resources as fresh water and cropland. UN population projections for the year 2050 range from 7.9 billion to 10.9 billion, suggesting the extent to which we can influence our future. More people worldwide are multiplying humanity's impact on the environment and on natural resources essential to life.
Because of the high per capita consumption of resources in industrialized nations, we have the world's worst population problem! People think of the population problem as being a problem only of "those people" in the undeveloped countries, but this serves only to draw attention away from the difficulties of dealing with our own problems. It is easier to tell a neighbor not to cut forests or create global warming than it is for us not to cut forests and create global warming. With regard to other countries, we can offer family planning assistance on request, but in those countries we have no jurisdiction or direct responsibility. Within our own country we have complete jurisdiction and responsibility, yet we failed to act to help solve our own problems. What the industrialized world can do to help developing nations stop their population growth is to set an example and stop our own population growth.
It is clear that there will always be large opposition to programs of making population growth pay for itself. Those who profit from growth will use their considerable resources to convince the community that the community should pay the costs of growth. In most communities, making growth pay for itself could be a major tool to use in stopping the population growth.
Because of world overpopulation and our never satisfied consumer societies natural resources are being depleted at an alarming rate. Agriculture faces an increasing challenge in feeding the growing world population.
The number of people living in countries where cultivated land is critically scarce is projected to increase to between 600 million and 986 million in 2025. Despite the Green Revolution and other technological advances, agriculture experts continue to debate how long crop yields will keep up with population growth and climate change. The food that feeds future generations will be obtained mostly on today's cropland. The soil on this land must remain fertile to keep food production secure. Easing world hunger could become unimaginably difficult if population growth resembles demographers' higher projections. Soils represent an important component of the terrestrial resources. In fact, more carbon is stored in soils (including peat) than in all of the vegetation of the world! So it is very important to create and implement worldwide policies to decrease world population today:
- delay reproduction until later in life;
Delaying reproduction is important in influencing population growth rates. Over a period of 60 years, if people delay reproduction
until they are 30 years old, you would have only two generations, while if you do not delay reproduction you would have three generations (one generation every 20 years).
- spread your children farther apart;
- to have fewer children overall;
- government commitment to decreasing population growth;
Create policies that help decreasing the number of children being born. Policies such as income tax deductions for dependent children and maternity and paternity leaves are essentially pronatalist and should be eliminated.
- programs that are locally designed and that include information on family planning and access to contraceptives; and
- educational programs that emphasize the connection between family planning and social good.
The vast disparities
in reproductive health worldwide and the greater vulnerability
of the poor to reproductive risk point to several steps all governments
can take, with the support of other sectors, to improve the health
of women and their families:
- Give women more life choices. The low social and economic status of women and girls set the stage for poor reproductive health;
- Invest in reproductive health care;
- Encourage delays in the onset of sexual activity and first births;
- Help couples prevent and manage unwanted childbearing;
- Ensure universal access to maternal health care;
- Support new reproductive health technologies;
- Increase efforts to address the HIV pandemic;
- Involve communities in evaluating and implementing programs;
- Develop partnerships with the private sector, policymakers and aid donors to broaden support for reproductive health; and
- Measure Progress.
More and more young people on every continent want to start bearing children later in life, and to have smaller families than at any
time in history. Likewise, in greater proportions than ever, women and girls in particular, want to go to school and to college, and
they want to find fulfilling and well-paid employment. Helping people in every country obtain the information and services they
need to put these ambitions into effect is all that can be done, and all that needs to be done, to bring world population growth
to a stable landing in this century.
Global Civilization promotes the formation of several global ministries for the proper governance of Earth.
Over the past decades, Global Civilization has been promoting the formation of several global ministries for the proper governance of Earth. Global ministries are world wide organizations just like the World Trade Organization (WTO) for trade and therefore should have the power to rule on cases as that of the WTO.
The formation of global ministries is the most important event in human history. Humanity sees the need to manage the world affairs in several aspects of our lives: energy, agriculture, environment, health, Earth resources, Earth management, security and safety, emergencies and rescues, trade, banks, speculation on world markets, peace, family and human development, water resources protection, youth, education, justice, science and technology, finance, human resources, ethics, global rights, sustainable development, industry, and the manufacturing of products. Global ministries will be given power to rule themselves in harmony with each other.
Humanity sees the need to
manage world affairs in several aspects of our lives. Today, earquakes, cyclones
and other natural disasters, as well as human made global destruction and
disasters, require a rapid and efficient response from the world to help those
in needs. All of this can be effectively accomplished when the organizational
structure of the government of each nation-state includes a Ministry of Global
Peace in government and a Global Ministry of Essential Services. We can all
co-operate together better this way when all people are prepared and able to do
so.
There is a need to manage the entire process of using Earth natural resources resources.
Because of the limited quantities of Earth resources to be made
available for this generation and the next ones, and because of environmental,
climate change, and world population concerns, there is a need to manage the
entire process of using Earth natural resources. And we all know that the amount of oil
left in the ground in the world has already passed its peak quantity. So why
waste the oil on doing things we know are nothing but a waste of energy and
often used for destruction and certainly will shorten the life span of the next
generations. A Ministry of Global Resources is needed to look after the
management of Earth resources at all stages: exploration, production,
transportation, manufacturing and distribution.
There is a multitude of
diverse Earth resources being taken from the ground and water, carried away for
processing, manufacturing, packaging, or used by consumers. More people and higher incomes worldwide are multiplying
humanity's impacts on the environment and on the natural resources that are
essential to life. The planet's fresh water, fisheries, forests and atmosphere
are already strained to their safe limits for global survival.
Based on
these trends, it is clear that the 21st century will witness even greater
pressures on natural resources. Young people increasingly want to wait to have
children and to have smaller families. Policymakers have a choice. They can do
nothing, or they can help ensure that in the 21st century the world's population
peaks with fewer than 8 billion people, simply by committing the financial
resources and promoting the new thinking here that will meet the needs of couples who want to have smaller families later
in life.
As a recommendation to alleviate the global problems we face, it is important to manage Earth resources in the following aspects:
1 Air
2 Water
3 Mining
4 Electromagnetic waves
5 Fisheries
6 Tourism
7 Environment
8 Forests
9 Soils
10 Fossil fuels
The stewardship
of the ecological base has to be given priority before the fulfilment of various economic and social wishes.
All families need shelter, food, language, body of
knowledge, certain skills, a source of income. Security of the home is an important aspect for any family and Global Civilization
it belongs to. Primordial human needs raise the question of interacting universal responsibilities. In terms of parenthood,
parents must raised their children mentally and physically healthy. It is a responsibility to do so. Which also means each local community must have an educational
system to help parents raise the child.
Global Civilization found evident that
the ecological base is the essential prerequisite for the effectiveness
and exercise of all rights recognized for human beings. The stewardship
of the ecological base has to be given priority before the fulfilment of
various economic and social wishes. Demands resulting from the socio-economic
system of a particular country have to find their limits in the protection
of the global ecosystem. Vital interests of future generations have to
be considered as having priority before less vital interests of the present
generation. Supply chains have to be designed in a way, that the goods
can enter after usage or consumption into natural or industrial recycling
processes. If serious damages to persons, animals, plants and the ecosystem
cannot be excluded, an action or pattern of behaviour should be refrained
from. A measure for supplying goods or services should choose a path which
entails the least possible impact on the ecological and social system concerned.
This way functioning proven systems will not be disturbed, and unnecessary
risks will not be taken. Supply strategies consuming less resources should
have preference before those enhancing more resource consumption. When there is a need to find a
solution to a problem or a concern, a sound solution would be to
choose a measure or conduct an action, if possible, which causes reversible
damage as opposed to a measure or an action causing an irreversible loss.
On the Scale of Global Rights primordial human rights and the protection of the global life-support systems and of ecological rights are on top of the Scale. They are the most important aspects on the Scale.
For instance, the existing and future uses of water are constantly challenged;
balancing supply and demand are made even harder by the amounts of pollution
found in the air, land and waters. A large part of our body is made of
water, and we cannot live without water; therefore water is a primordial
human right by our very nature. In order to avoid conflicts and wars
over drinking (fresh)water, fresh water has been categorized as a primordial
human right. Industrial pollution plays a major role in the deterioration
of nature but this time the level of pollution is above the carrying capacity
of a healthy ecosystem. Pollution also affects significantly human health and
all lifeforms on Earth. Every person needs Oxygen to live so clean air
is certainly also a primordial human right by our very nature.
Global warming, agriculture and population growth.
Weather conditions such as temperature, radiation and water, determine the carrying capacity of the biosphere to produce enough food for the human population and domesticated animals. Any short-term fluctuations of the climate can have dramatic effects on the agricultural productivity. Thus, the climate has a direct incidence on food supply. In the coming years, unless population size is stabilized, agriculture will have to face an increasing challenge in feeding the growing population of the world.
Governments cannot control childbearing and attempts to do so have sometimes led to coercive approaches to reproduction that violate human rights. The need is rather to expand the power individuals have over their own lives, especially by enabling them to choose how many children to have and when to have them. Investing in education for girls helps them to contribute to their national economies and to postpone child bearing until they are ready for a family. Providing credit and other economic opportunities for women creates alternatives to early and frequent childbearing. Finally, better access to quality reproductive health services directly benefits women and their families. These approaches increase human capacity, providing the greatest long-term return to
societies, individuals and the environment. Comprehensive population policies are thus an essential element in a world development strategy that combines access to reproductive health services, to education and economic opportunities, to improved energy and natural resource technologies, and to healthyer models of consumption and the "good life."
Governance and management of Earth resources.
Control over the amounts of greengases produced by human activities and let go into our air must be paramount to governance and management of Earth. The production of greengases involves the destruction of the Oxygen in our air, and its replacement by CO2, a deadly chemical.
CO2 concentrations in the atmosphere have been measured at an altitude of about 4,000 meters on the peak of Mauna Loa mountain in Hawaii since 1958. The measurements at this location, remote from local sources of pollution, have clearly shown that atmospheric concentrations of CO2 are increasing. The mean concentration of approximately 316 parts per million by volume (ppmv) in 1958 rose to approximately 369 ppmv in 1998. The annual variation is due to CO2 uptake by growing plants. The uptake is highest in the northern hemisphere springtime. Today in 2013, the concentration is 400 ppmv. And after all the dirty tars sands oil of Alberta, Canada, has been consumed, the concentration will be over 600 ppmv, i.e. the end of civilization as we know it, and the end of most lifeforms on the planet.
Earth governance is about the rights of states to self-determination in the global context of Global Civilization rather than the traditional context of a world of separate states. Global Civilization offers both a short term solution and a long term solution to the people of all nations to assure the survival of life on Earth. Both solutions require the acceptance of the Scale of Global Rights as our guide for survival. What would be preferable is that all nations unite amongst themselves to form a more meaningful union of nine or more Global Governments. A Global Government is concerned not only with economics and trade, but also with the environment, health, agriculture, energy, food, social, cultural and many other essential aspects of community. We want each Global Government to take a larger share of responsibility of the specific region where it operates, and be more accountable to the people of that region. The Federation of Global Governments would be the place of meeting between Global Governments.
We, citizens of Global Civilization, hereby resolve to establish a federation of all nations, and to govern in accordance with Global Parliament Constitution. Global Parliament shall be composed of four (4) bodies, designated as follows:
1. the House of Elected Representatives,
2. the Federation of Global Governments,
3. the House of Advisers, and the
4. Executive Council.
The very first step of the Federation, and maybe the only one for several decades ahead of us, would be the approval of essential services amongst the participating member nations. Global Civilization has researched and developed such services and listed them here. All of them are already in operation on a small scale.
A working Global Parliament Constitution is the only way for us all to guarantee essential services, Justice, and protection to every home. Global Parliament is not a World Government or Earth Government. No! It is the Federation of Global Governments. Global Parliament and its Constitution were researched and developed from fundamental principles as opposed to kitchen recipe types of Constitution that follow a set of instructions for a world parliament of some kind. Or as opposed to using the old USA Constitution with its military overtones to invading the world and lobbyists base democracy.
Some of those principles we developed are "Global Civilization " and the "Scale of Global Rights". That is what differentiates most our proposal from others. The Federation and its Global Parliament operate as per those principles. The definition of Global Community concept is truly the 21st century "philosophy of life" framework, some called it the religion of the third millennium, others called it the politics of the future generations now.
Business, trade and ethics.
Global Civilization believes all citizens have the right to share the wealth in the world. The free trade agreement between nations must protect and improve social and environmental
rights, not just the economy. A sustainable development in the world would mean finding a sound balance among the interactions designed to create a healthy economic growth, preserve environmental quality, make a wise use of our resources, and enhance social benefits. Free trade cannot proceed at the expense of the environment, labour rights, global rights and the sovereignty of a nation. Free trade leads to an
increase in poverty by giving investor rights priority over government decision-making. Employers will be looking for more
concessions from workers. Small businesses will find it more difficult to grow and compete against large corporations.
Over its long past history trade has never evolved to require from the trading partners to become completely responsible for their
products from beginning to end. At the end, the product becomes a waste, and it needs to be properly dispose of. You manufacture, produce, farm or create a product, you become responsible and accountable of your product from beginning to end (to the point where it actually becomes a waste; you are also responsible for the proper disposable of the waste). People in our society often argue that their manufacturing products and the trading principles or rules that regulate their actions are all legal! But what about ethical values and moral principles that protect life on Earth?!
Global Civilization ethic for a business proposed here provides no direct solution for all the extensive problems of humanity. The ethic is giving humanity the moral foundation for a better corporate citizen.
Global Civilization ethic for a business offers fundamental moral behaviors and irrevocable standards that every corporate citizen and, to some extent if applicable, the public at large may adapt as their own vision for life's survival on our planet. You need not be religious to make this vision yours. This vision is for all corporate citizens, regardless of their social origin, language, culture, sex, skin color, religious and non-religious.
Global Civilization vision creates new hopes, standards, ideals and goals for corporate citizens to embrace freely, and live a life without fear.
Corporate citizens have a binding responsibility for the welfare of all humanity and care for all life on Earth. Global Civilization ethical grounds for a business are practical, real, and applicable for all corporate women and men of good will, religious and non-religious.
Global Civilization ethics for a business are about how we treat others and a commitment to respect every person humanely and with dignity. For this process to work, global citizens learn to forgive, be patient and compassionate, promote acceptance, open theirs hearts to one another, and practice a culture of solidarity and cooperation. Let go narrow differences between us all for the greater good of humanity and future generations.
Morality can be derived from a standard that global citizens believe should be universal such as Global Civilization ethic for a business which include all lifeforms over the entire Universe.
Global Civilization ethic for a business aims to identify principles of right action that may be used to guide people in their lives. These principles can be used to decide whether particular courses of action, or particular types of action, are right or wrong. Ethics emphasizes respect for persons, and holds that there are certain actions that should never be done. This is what this paper is about: to describe those principles and propose a list of right actions for a business.
Wherever there are people there will be conflicts, and ethics can help to resolve conflicts. Global Civilization proposes that such conflicts be resolved without violence and within a framework of justice. People must commit themselves to the most nonviolent, peaceful solutions possible. This is the pathway to global peace.
Over ancient time to this day, morality in society made its way into our ways of doing business. So the set of behaviors that constitute Global Civilization ethic for a business evolved largely because they provided possible survival benefits to increase evolutionary success. Consequently, Peoples evolved socially to express emotions, such as feelings of empathy or guilt, in response to these moral behaviors. Humans developed truly moral, altruistic instincts. When looking across cultures of geo-cultural areas and across millennia, certain virtues have prevailed in all cultures, the major ones include wisdom, knowledge, courage, justice, love, truth, empathy, kindness, and social intelligence. These virtues were not always incorporated into the ways of doing business because the 1% business world became corrupted, greedy, no longer in line with humanity's survival on the planet, and more interested in keeping most of the wealth, resources and power for themselves keeping the remaining 99% of the world population in poverty.
But today we are going to incorporate these virtues and proper behaviors into corporate citizen global ethics.
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