Politics and Justice Without Borders
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Volume 16 Issue 4 December 2017

Global Civilization offers a new global order with a vision of hope and love away from despair and social chaos.


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Note:
Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA); World Trade Organization (WTO); North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA; 1994); Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA); Canada–United States Free Trade Agreement (1988, suspended by NFTAA); Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS); European Union (EU); and many more international trade agreements between nations. All international trade agreements must be administered by the Global Trade and Resources Ministry as institutionalized by Global Parliament. Today's international trade agreements are obsolete and primitive. They are formed to make a few people on the planet rich and creating a world of overconsumption and wastfully degrading the planet's resources and environment. Let us walk into a sustainable future.

Governance of the Earth by Global Parliament will make the rule of arbitrary power--economic (WTO, FTAA, TPPA, BRICS, EU, etc.), political, or military (NATO)-- subjected to the rule of law within the global civil society, the human family. Justice is for everyone and is everywhere, a universal constant. Justice is without borders.

The quality of Earth governance is reflected in each local community worldwide. Global Community will show leadership by creating a global civil ethic within our ways of life. Global Constituion describes all values needed for good global governance: mutual respect, tolerance, respect for life, justice for all everywhere, integrity, and caring. The Scale of global Rights has become an inner truth and the benchmark of the millennium in how everyone sees all values. The Scale encompasses the right of all people to:
*     the preservation of ethnicity
*     equitable treatment, including gender equity
*     security
*     protection against corruption and the military
*     earn a fair living, have shelter and provide for their own welfare and that of their family
*     peace and stability
*     universal value systems
*     participation in governance at all levels
*     access the Earth Court of Justice for redress of gross injustices
*     equal access to information

An investigation was conducted to found whether or not transnational corporations (TNCs) and other companies are taking meaningful steps to improve their social and environmental record. Considerable attention is focused on the effectiveness of "voluntary initiatives" such as codes of conduct, social and environmental reporting, certification, labelling, corporate social investment and improvements in environmental management systems.

Table of contents


  • Introduction
  • Global Civilization offers a new global order with a vision of hope and love away from despair and social chaos.
  • What Global Civilization stands for?
  • Humanity's new vision of the world.
  • Global security.
  • Global rights.
  • Global justice.
  • Global law.
  • Global Protection Agency (GPA).
  • Protection of the global life support systems.
  • Planetary biodiversity zone.
  • World overpopulation and overconsumption.
  • Business ethics: corporate global citizens responsibility and accountability.
  • Global Ministries.
  • Short and long term solutions to saving the world, the Scale of Global Right and Global Parliament.
    1. Short term solution
    2. Long term solution
  • Conclusion

Introduction.


Earth is our most precious and the one and only place we can live for now. Earth is our home. This way 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. We are the keepers of the Earth, and we want to govern and manage sustainably our planet.

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.
Everyone shares responsibility for the present and future well-being of Life within Global Civilization.
Global Civilization will help us:
* resolve problems, concerns and issues peacefully;
* reinstate the respect for Earth;
* work with humanity to keep Earth healthy, productive and hospitable for all people and living things;
* bring forth a sustainable global society embracing universal values related to global rights, economic and social justice, respect of nature, peace, responsibility to one another; and
* help to protect Life and manage planet Earth.

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 aa. 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. With the advance of a new millennium one tends to dream of a new Eden. From childhood our little ones have been privileged to enjoy group activities. They develop a circle of friends from many ethnic backgrounds, boys and girls together. These young people habitually hold two or three part-time jobs, or engage in some entrepreneural activity, for money is regarded as the energy source for their way of life. These young people are not trapped by things although they own the best of sports equipment and outdoor clothing, being very health conscious.
They eat very well. Being outdoors-aware, these young people will be focusing on the air we breathe, the water we drink. Our new generation already exhibits the inner awareness:<b> less is more</b>. Living with a group of friends in a Space Age may involve jobs in Space. One very re-assuring fact is that the young people of to-day are interested in all the secret wisdom behind all the existing religions and sifting out the common truths. Their childhood conditioning has prepared them to act on a firm understanding of what it takes to get along with others, working as a group. Each and every Self is dedicated to an idea for good that others can
share together in creating this new Eden. Doing good and the well-being of the 'other' have become the basic building block of any symbiotical relationship. What we have here is the birth of genuine group concern and unconditional support for the individual's well-being ~ a giant leap in human behaviour which could well change the functioning of global communities everywhere. We are becoming the human family. And Global Civilization has made grounds in Peoples way of life.
The evil is the war industry.

Historically, the careless technology and policies of industrialized nations have caused the most damage to the environment. Emissions from factories and vehicles have caused ozone depletion, acid rain, climate change, global warming, and many other critical global problems. Part 1 Global Civilization issues today: global warming, climate change, overpopulation, overconsumption, overfishing, starvation, deforestation, refugees crisis, wars and conflicts, global life-support systems put in danger, Earth ecosystem destruction, pollution beyond repairs. Leaders of the wealthier nations must be willing to accept responsibility for past mistakes and to help pay the financial burden for environmental protection of the developing nations. Global Civilization must help wealthy and developing nations reach a better understanding of each other's needs. All aspects are interrelated: peace, global rights and the environment. In reality, all concerns are interrelated. As soon as the environment is destroyed beyond repair, human suffering is next. Ecology has no boundaries. Global life-support systems are planetary problems we all have to manage together. All nations suffer the effects of air pollution, global warming, loss of biodiversity, soil erosion, acid rain, ozone depletion, silting of streams, and countless of other environmental problems. This was the reason for proposing to Global Civilization the Scale of Global Rights as a shorth term solution to assure the survival of Life on Earth. Scale of Global Rights. This was the reason for proposing to  Global Civilization the Scale of Global Rights as a shorth term solution to assure the survival of Life on Earth. Values foundation of the Scale of Global Rights. The Scale is a balancing process to sustain all life on the planet now and future generations. Values that kept human beings alived from ancient time to today's Global Civilization; most important Global Commons; Commons Trust Fund; Earth rights; Global Ministries; global life-support systems; Scale of Global Rights.

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. Part 2 Global Civilization values, solutions, and vision of the world for survival as a species: freedom, knowledge, peace, justice, empathy, love, hope, sustainable management of global resources.  Every day of every year and for decades, global dialogues of Global Civilization have made possible to probe the world about what may be the best values to follow for humanity's survival this century. The Scale of Global Rights</strong> gives Peoples the moral foundation for a better individual and community and is the best guide to survival. Global Civilization values did not all exist at first during the first stage of human evolution. Most of them gradually developed over time. Today, it is not just about 'humanity survival' but about 'all lifeforms survival' on Earth we are fighting for. Earth management and good governance is now a priority and a duty of every responsible person on Earth. The problem with world overpopulation is everybody’s problem. Global Community is declaring a moratorium on world population, the fertility rate and immigration applications all over the world, until applicants from any religious or cultural background have satisfied completely Global Community standard for a population fertility rate of 1.3 children per family. We need leadership in the protection of all our natural resources, in peril because of what we do and what that does to our planet. We need to reclaim the ideal of being a democratic people without extremes of wealth and poverty. This all means letting go a sense of ourselves as consumption machines. 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. Global political parties are certainly the next best thing to talk about now as we urge all nations to replace the United Nations organization by Global Parliament, and that will require voting and electing leaders. Global politics is about doing what is right for all of us now and in the future, and for all life on the planet. 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. Global Law includes legislation covering all critical aspects of human activities. The GPA will train and lead a global force, bypassing traditional peacekeeping and military bodies such as the United Nations and NATO, and will enforce the law.

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 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.

We have the responsibility of managing Earth.
Free trade entrenches corporate power at the expense of democratically elected officials from local communities, municipal governments, provincial governments, national governments and states. It is a form of "world anti-government" (such as the European Union block) as citizens lose the ability to act in their best interests and find sound solutions to their own problems. Citizens become disconnected with the decision-making process. Their lives are then driven by the desire of making profits. Fear is used to force people to behave with the dollar sign as their god. In such scenario, democratic principles lose meaning and no longer prevail. All that we have worked for over the past decades to build sustainable communities is gone with free trade. People were never asked to discuss and were never invited in its development. The principles of a sustainable development are let go and replaced by the desire of the world business leaders to make larger profits. 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?! When we do exploration work, develop, manufacture, produce, mine, farm or create a product, we become legally and morally responsible and accountable of this product from beginning to end. This product may be anything and everything from oil & gas, war products, construction products, transportation and communications products and equipment, to genetically engineered food products. All consumer, medical and pharmaceutical products!

Global Community offers a new global order with a vision of hope and love away from despair and social chaos.


Global Community offers a new global order with a vision of Hope and Love away from despair and social chaos. This new global order will be better, safer, and more realistic after replacing the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the Scale of Global Rights Scale of Global Rights.

Global Community proposal

Global Community is proposing ethics to live by for life's survival on our planet. The illusion (Hope) being the belief that humanity can be repaired by some ethic principle. Humanity urgently wants social and ecological reforms, as well as a spiritual renewal to add trust, meaning, standards and practical guidelines to this new quest for survival. Global citizens Global Citizens voting on issues Letter to all Canadians concerning new legislation on direct democracy Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act Freedom, security and justice without borders (Part II) Global Community and every global citizen, also known as the human family, the global civil society. I should start by emphasizing that I speak to you as a good global citizen.  Scale of Human and Earth Rights Global Parliament s Constitution   GCEG s commitment to the Global Community to make government and global citizens responsible and accountable, and to bring about Global Peace  Employment for every global citizen  Global Community Citizenship (every participant would become a global citizen)  We the Peoples are us Global Community days of celebration or remembering throughout the year: Global Citizenship Day on October 29 of every year want a spiritual home to do good and avoid evil in all its forms. This of course assumes humanity needs repairs. If so how and why? Dont we have human rights to live by? Yes, we do! Dont we have something to protect the global life-support systems without which life on Earth would be extinct? Yes, we do! Dont we have ethics in all professions? Yes, we do! Dont we have religions to teach us about good moral values to live by? Yes, we do! Are we not mostly good Peoples doing the best they can? Yes, we are! So why do we need repairs for? How can we be better Peoples than we are already?

How? Why? This is what Global Civilization is about.

What Global Community stands for What Global Community stands for




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Global Community is for all life on Earth and is the 21st century framework for Earth governance.

What Global Community stands for What Global Community stands for

    Politics and Justice without borders: what we stand for
    Constitution Short Version
    Other summaries of the Global Communty work

What Global Community stands for
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Politics and Justice without borders: what we stand for
Artwork by Germain Dufour
May 12, 2010

Global Community 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. Wherever there are people there will be conflicts, and ethics can help to resolve conflicts. Global Community 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 Global Peace Ministry.

The fundamental criteria of a global symbiotical relationship  The fundamental criteria of a global symbiotical relationship

The fundamental criteria is that a relationship is created for the good of all groups participating in the relationship and for the good of humanity, all Life on Earth. The relationship allows a global equitable and peaceful development and a more stable and inclusive global economy.
As it happens in Nature, symbiosis is also a common feature in human society. Global Community has begun to establish the existence of the age of symbiotical relationships and global cooperation. There has always been symbioticalGlobal Community  is the new Faith, and the Religion of the 3 rd millennium. Symbiotical relationships are needed today for the long term future of humanity and for the protection of Life on Earth. The expression "global symbiotical relationship" needs to be defined to include ethics. In the context of the global civilization of the 3rd Millennium Global civilization of the 3rd Millennium we have defined that any symbiotical relationship is for the good of all, for the good of the 'other'. It is based on a genuine group concern and unconditional support for the individual's well-being ~ a giant leap in human behaviour. The question is how can we improve the political and business symbiotical relationships to fulfill the fundamental criteria? Global Community promotes values and principles to achieve the fundamental criteria and that requires the promoting and establishment of: global community ethics, mutual respect, respect for Life, basic liberties, justice and equity, caring for the 'other', integrity, responsibility and accountability. Those very important values were also included into the corporate citizen global ethics. Other symbiotical relationships may be based on common concerns and issues such as: the environment, peace, justice, women's rights, global rights, and many more. There is a whole spectrum of possible symbiotical relationships: geographical, economical, social, business-like, political, religious, and personal. Other types may be created all over the world between communities, nations, and between people themselves. Let just make sure they all satisfy the fundamental criteria of a symbiotical relationship.

All lifeforms are an important part of Global Community ethics

Now Global Community claims that all lifeforms are important and included as part of global ethics. It is not just about 'humanity survival' but about 'all lifeforms survival' we are fighting for. This is morally right for humanity's survival because each of us depends on the well-being of the whole, and so global citizens have respect for the community of living beings, for people, other lifeforms, and plants, and for the preservation of Earth, the air, water and soil.

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What Global Civilization stands for?

The ethic proposed here provides no direct solution for all the extensive problems of humanity. The ethic is giving humanity the moral foundation for a better individual and community. Global Community offers a new global order with a vision of Hope and Love away from despair and social chaos. Global Community ethics offer fundamental moral behaviors and irrevocable standards. You need not be religious to make this vision yours. This vision is for all human beings regardless of their social origin, language, culture, sex, skin color or religion. Global Community vision creates new hopes, standards, ideals and goals for everyone to embrace freely, and live a life without fear. Global Community faith is about realizing this new global order will be better, safer, and more realistic after replacing the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the Scale of Global Rights Scale of Global Rights. To determine rights requires an understanding of needs and reponsibilities and their importance. The Scale shows social values in order of importance and so will help us understand clearly the rights of a community and its citizens. So now Global Community ethics includes a process based on the Scale of Global Rights. Global citizens have a binding responsibility for the welfare of all humanity and care for all life on Earth. Global Community ethical grounds are practical, real, and applicable for all women and men of good will, religious and non-religious.

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Strong global leadership

Perhaps a strong leadership is needed above everything else! The world needs a strong leadership! The kind of leadership the world needs is not found in the USA or the EU. Neither NATO! Not free trade types! Not the UN! Not money driven types!

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Humanity's new vision of the world




Building global communities Building a Global Civilization for all life. 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, human activities destroying and polluting, as population increases the respect and value of a human life is in decline, 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, deforestation, 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 for all life on the planet. We need to build global communities that will manage themselves with the understanding of the above problems. Our goal for peace in the world can only be reached by resolving these important global problems. These problems have brought up a planetary state of emergency.


Essential services HQ  Essential services HQ
Global Essential Services Main Index Global Essential Services Main Index
Global Community of North America (GCNA) Emergency, Rescue, and Relief Centre  Global Community of North America (GCNA)  Emergency, Rescue, and Relief Centre
Federation of Global Governments Emergency, Rescue, and Relief Centre Esential services
Global Citizens concerned about global issues since 1985. Global Citizens voting on issues Letter to all Canadians concerning new legislation on direct democracy Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act Freedom, security and justice without borders (Part II) Global Community and every global citizen, also known as the human family, the global civil society. I should start by emphasizing that I speak to you as a good global citizen.  Scale of Human and Earth Rights Global Parliament s Constitution   GCEG s commitment to the Global Community to make government and global citizens responsible and accountable, and to bring about Global Peace  Employment for every global citizen  Global Community Citizenship (every participant would become a global citizen)  We the Peoples are us Global Community days of celebration or remembering throughout the year: Global Citizenship Day on October 29 of every year

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.

 Summary image of the theme Peace in the world with Global Community.

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Global rights. Global Rights

Building a Global Civilization for all life Scale of Global Rights Fundamentals Global Protection Agency (GPA) What we can no longer do What we must do Portal of the Global Community

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. Introduction to Global Rights year one 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. Today, 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 global 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 global 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. 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. At any time or in any given place, men, women and children use their culture to invent new ways of making global rights a living reality. Diversity enriches us if it respects the dignity of each individual, and if it takes account of  global rights as a whole.

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Global justice.

The four interacting circles are quality systems.

Artwork by Germain Dufour
October 2014
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The four interacting circles are quality systems.The mathematical model for the measurement of sustainable development 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  Restoration of the planet, our home that have been developed for assessing and measuring sustainable development within four important realities in local/global life. The scale Scale of Human and Earth Rights 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. Universal health care, education, retirement security and employment services to every Global Community citizen Businesses cannot thrive without people and resources. Global economy and trade 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. Preventive actions against polluters Let us protect all life. Protection of the global life-support systems Economic stability depends on people, resources, and good businesses and trade. The Global Economic Model Earth Government Global Economic System 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. Earth Environmental Governance can only be achieved successfully within the larger context of Sustainable Developent  and Earth Management.  All aspects are inter-related and affect one another  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. Life is protected And that is the framework of Global Justice for all life on the planet as researched and developed by Global Civilization .

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. 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.Global Community Earth Government  and the Global Constitution
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 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 global rights;
*     implementing a global regulatory framework for capitals and corporations that emphasizes global corporate ethics, corporate social responsibility, protection of global 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.
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 Civilization is Global Community , and 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.

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Global law.

Global Law Global Law

Statutes       Codes       Bills       Global Parliament  Law        Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and  Accountability Act
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.

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.


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.

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Global Law


SoulLife, Ecclesiastical Teaching, Civic Law by Government, Natural Processes and Laws, are fundamental pillars of Global Law. The work of 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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Justice for all with Global Law
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Global Protection Agency (GPA) Global Protection Agency (GPA)
Global Rights Global Rights
The Judiciary Global Constitution Chapter VIII     Enhanced cooperation between Member Nations Global Constitution Chapter XIV     Global Community Earth Government with its governing institutions and bodies Global Constitution Chapter XII     Exercise of Earth Government competence
Earth Court of Justice Global Constitution Chapter XIV     Global Community Earth Government with its governing institutions and bodies  Global Justice Movement for all life aspects and issues   Earth Court of Justice aspects and issues   Global Justice for all life on the planet
Standards & good practices Global Constitution Chapter IV     Global Community concepts and universal values Global Constitution Chapter X     Scale of Human and Earth Rights Global Constitution Chapter XIV     Global Community Earth Government with its governing institutions and bodies Global Constitution Chapter XVIII     Global policies in other areas of Earth Government Global Constitution Chapter XIX     Freedom, security and justice without borders Global Constitution Chapter XX     Areas where Earth Government may take coordinating, complementary or supporting action
Global Law & Regulations  SoulLife, Nature Law, the teaching of the Soul of Humanity with the teaching of the prophet are fundamental pillars of our Global Law Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act Earth Government Global Law consists of 69 codes, covering various subject areas, the Global Constitution, Bills and Statutes Global Constitution Chapter X     Scale of Human and Earth Rights Global Constitution Chapter XIV     Global Community Earth Government with its governing institutions and bodies Global Constitution Chapter XVIII     Global policies in other areas of Earth Government Global Constitution Chapter XIX     Freedom, security and justice without borders Global Constitution Chapter XX     Areas where Earth Government may take coordinating, complementary or supporting action Global Constitution Chapter XII     Exercise of Earth Government competence About Global Law, Codes and standards Earth Government Legislation Global Constitution Chapter XI     Limits of Earth Government competences Global Constitution Chapter XV     Consistency between the different policies and activities of Earth Government Global Constitution Chapter XVI     A global market without borders in which the free movement of goods, persons, services and capital is ensured in accordance with this Constitution
Formation of new nations Portal of the Global Civilization  The Global Community organization is calling upon global citizens and all peoples and governments of the world to rally with the GCEG for the good of all.  Unity in diversity. Getting to know one another and ourselves as one humanity. What Peace amongst nations means? Fundamentals of Global Rights
Settling of disputes between nations through the process of the Earth Court of Justice The settling of disputes between nations Global Constitution Chapter II     Earth Security and Peace Global Constitution Chapter V     The establishment of Global Communities Global Constitution Chapter VI     Earth Government Global Community Citizenship Global Constitution Chapter XIV     Global Community Earth Government with its governing institutions and bodies Global Constitution Chapter XXIII     Safeguards and Reservations What Peace amongst nations means? Fundamentals of Global Rights
Codes, Bills, Acts, and Statutes About Global Law, Codes and standards Earth Government Legislation  SoulLife, Nature Law, the teaching of the Soul of Humanity with the teaching of the prophet are fundamental pillars of our Global Law Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act Earth Government Global Law consists of 69 codes, covering various subject areas, the Global Constitution, Bills and Statutes
Federation of Global Governments Head Quarters Federation of Global Governments Head Quarters Federation of Global Governments
Portal of Global Community Portal of the Global Community
Global Movement to Help main listing:
  • Federation of Global Governments Head Quarters (HQ) Federation of Global Governments Head Quarters Federation of Global Governments
  • Essential services Main index the Global Movement to Help essential services   Essential services
  • Global Justice Network Global Justice Network  Global Justice Network
  • Global Protection Agency (GPA) Main index of the  Global Protection Agency (GPA)  Global Protection Agency (GPA)
  • Global Rights Global Rights
  • Portal of Global Community Portal of the Global Community
  • Portal Global Dialogue 2009 Main website of Global Dialogue 2009
  • Global Information Media (GIM) proclamations    Global Information Media (GIM) proclamations
  • Portal of Global Dialogue 2008 Portal of Global Dialogue 2008
  • Proceedings of the Global Dialogue   Proceedings of the Global Dialogue
  • Global Peace Movement amongst nations and people Global Peace Movement amongst nations and people
  • Global Citizens voting on issues Global Community voting on issues

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Protection of the Global Life Support Systems.

Protection of the global life-support systems Protection of the global life-support systems
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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Planetary biodiversity zone.

Global Civilization has established a planetary biodiversity zone now under the protection of the Global Protection Agency (GPA). 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
  • living organisms and ecosystems in all of the above

Table of contents
    Introduction Introduction
    Global Community concept Global Community concept
    Global rights Global rights
    Global Community criteria for sovereignty Global Community criteria for sovereignty
    Biodiversity zone in the North Pole region Biodiversity zone in the North Pole region
    Planetary biodiversity zone Planetary biodiversity zone
    Benefits of biodiversity Benefits of biodiversity
    Boreal forest Boreal forest
    The Boreal forests are threatened by human activities The Boreal forests are threatened by human activities
    Rainforest Rainforest
    Definition and description Definition and description
    Locations of temperate and tropical rainforests Locations of temperate and tropical rainforests
    Impacts of human activities on rainforest Impacts of human activities on rainforest
    Benefits of rainforest to Global Community Benefits of rainforest to the Global Community
    Temperate rainforest Temperate rainforest
    Oceans, lakes and streams Oceans, lakes and streams
    Global warming Global warming
    What we must do to protect life and create a planetary biodiversity zone What we must do to protect life and create a planetary biodiversity zone
    Conclusion Conclusion
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.

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.

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World overpopulation and overconsumption.

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. 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.

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.

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.

We are all members of Global Community. We all have the duty to protect the rights and welfare of all species and all people. No humans have the right to encroach on the ecological space of other species and other people, or treat them with cruelty and violence. All life species, humans and cultures, have intrinsic worth. They are subjects, not objects of manipulation or ownership. No humans have the right to own other species, other people or the knowledge of other cultures through patents and other intellectual property rights. Defending biological and cultural diversity is a duty of all people. Diversity is an end in itself, a value, a source of richness both material and cultural. All members of Global Community including all humans have the right to food and water, to safe and clean habitat, to security of ecological space. These rights are natural rights, they are birthrights given by the fact of existence on Earth and are best protected through community rights and the Global Commons. They are not given by states or corporations, nor can they be extinguished by state or corporate action. No state or corporation has the right to erode or undermine these natural rights or enclose the commons that sustain all through privatisation or monopoly control.

We need to take a giant step forward to a new form of democracy. How the Earth should be owned is the major economic question of this time. The world should be owned not just by the people living in it but by all life on Earth.

Planet Earth is humanity's inheritance. The land, water, air, and the wonderful other bounty of natural resources were not human made. Everyone, all lifeforms, has a common right and ownership to their uses. We must recognize the rightful claim of every person to inherit an equitable portion of Earth's natural bounty. That is humanity common heritage.

Global Community has proposed a new democratic mandate recognizing that land, air, oil and natural gas, minerals, all other natural resources rightly belong to global communities. The Earth is our birthright and our common heritage. What we make from our mental and physical labor can rightfully be held as individual property but the profit of the Earth should be shared by all life. The unjust and inequitable ownership of the land and of all other natural resources have caused the great majority of local-to-global conflicts and wars, and the global warming of our planet. And now our global life-support systems are under threat. Let us appreciate the commons that are truly important for all life survival.

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Business ethics: corporate global citizens responsibility and accountability
Note: Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA); World Trade Organization (WTO); : North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA; 1994); Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA); Canada–United States Free Trade Agreement (1988, suspended by NFTAA); Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS); European Union (EU); and many more international trade agreements between nations. All international trade agreements must be administered by a Global Ministry as institutionalized by Global Parliament. Today's international trade agreements are obsolete and primitive. They are formed to make a few people on the planet rich and creating a world of overconsumption and wastfully degrading the planet's resources and environment. Let us walk into a sustainable future.

Governance of the Earth by Global Parliament will make the rule of arbitrary power--economic (WTO, FTAA, TPPA, BRICS, EU, etc.), political, or military (NATO)-- subjected to the rule of law within the global civil society, the human family. Justice is for everyone and is everywhere, a universal constant. Justice is without borders.

The quality of Earth governance is reflected in each local community worldwide. Global Community will show leadership by creating a global civil ethic within our ways of life. Global Constituion describes all values needed for good global governance: mutual respect, tolerance, respect for life, justice for all everywhere, integrity, and caring. The Scale of global Rights has become an inner truth and the benchmark of the millennium in how everyone sees all values. The Scale encompasses the right of all people to:
*     the preservation of ethnicity
*     equitable treatment, including gender equity
*     security
*     protection against corruption and the military
*     earn a fair living, have shelter and provide for their own welfare and that of their family
*     peace and stability
*     universal value systems
*     participation in governance at all levels
*     access the Earth Court of Justice for redress of gross injustices
*     equal access to information

An investigation was conducted to found whether or not transnational corporations (TNCs) and other companies are taking meaningful steps to improve their social and environmental record. Considerable attention is focused on the effectiveness of "voluntary initiatives" such as codes of conduct, social and environmental reporting, certification, labelling, corporate social investment and improvements in environmental management systems.
Earth environmental governance can only be achieved successfully within the larger context of sustainable developent and Earth management. All aspects are inter-related and affect one another. A healthy environment is essential to long term prosperity and well-being, and citizens in Global Civilization demand a high level of ecological protection. This is the 'raison d'etre' of the Scale of global Rights. On the Scale, 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. Primordial human rights are those human rights that individuals have by virtue of their very existence as human beings: to live, have security, eat, drink fresh water, breath clean air, and have shelter. These rights are separate categories 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.


Global Community proposes to corporations that they take responsibility on behalf of society and people, and that they should pay more attention to global rights, working conditions and getting ride of corruption in the world of business and trade. We have developed a criteria, and we ask you to turn it into practice.

Apply to us to be a global corporate citizen of Global Civilization .

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

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

GCAC will be conducting the assessment of your business.

Corporate citizen global ethics
A corporation will now be required to operate its business as per global ehtics:

*    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
*     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

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Global Ministries.
Ministries  The Interim Earth Government

Table of Contents

I.   Global Movement to Help Global Movement to Help
II.   Global Ministries:
  • Global Ministry of World Population Global Ministry of World Population
    • Summary Summary
    • Global resources affected by overpopulation Global resources affected by overpopulation
    • Causes of overpopulation Causes of overpopulation
    • Effects of overpopulation  Effects of overpopulation
    • Solutions to the global problem of overpopulation Solutions to the global problem of overpopulation
    • Leadership needed to solve the global problem of overpopulation Leadership needed to solve the global problem of overpopulation
  • Global Ministry of Essential Services Global Ministry of Essential Services
  • Ministry of Global Resources  Ministry of Global Resources
  • Ministry of Global Peace in government Ministry of Global Peace
  • Earth Environmental Governance Earth Environmental Governance
  • Earth Ministry of Health Earth Ministry of Health
  • Global Ministry of Forests Global Ministry of Forests
  • Global Ministry of Agriculture, Food Production and Distribution  Global Ministry of Agriculture, Food Production and Distribution
  • Global Civilization Ministry of Peace and Disarmament  Global Civilization Ministry  of Peace and Disarmament
  • Ministry of Intergovernmental Affairs: Global Government of Africa  Ministry of Intergovernmental Affairs: Global Government of Africa
  • Global Ministry of Water Resources Protection  Global Ministry of Water Resources Protection
  • Global Environment Ministry  Ministry of Global Environment
  • Sustainable Development Global Information Society  Sustainable Development Global Information Society

III.   Building a Global Civilization for all life. 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. 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". As part of the 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. Establishing a global action plan for survival. Such worldwide action plan be promoted widely during the Global Exhibition
VII.   Education for Global Survival Education for Global Survival
VIII.  Applying the proper taxation system to establish confidence and trust in the global action plan for survival 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. Making available to all nations a 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. Analyzing and publishing local and global impacts of all significant events that affect the survival of all life on the planet.
XI.   Family is important. Family with too many children is a problem. Family is important. Family with too many children is a problem.
XII.   Preventing actions to alliviate the effects of global warming and climate change. 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. Making public worlwide a daily list of all people responsible of causing significanr 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.  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  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. Moratorium on world population and the fertility rate and ending population warfare
XVII.   Ending economic warfare Ending economic warfare
XVIII.   Creating a planetary biodiversity zone Creating a planetary biodiversity zone
XIX.   Establishing a global dialogue between all Peoples. Establishing a global dialogue between all Peoples.
XX.   Humanity new Vision of the World. Humanity new Vision of the World.
XXI.   Global Parliament's Constitution. Global Parliament's Constitution.

References References

Global Community Ministry of World Population


References.
Protection Protection of the global life-support systems of the :
  • global life-support systems Security for all life aspects and issues
  • Earth ecosystems Earth Management aspects and issues
  • environment  Global environmental protection aspects and issues

Security for all life, and safety at work Security for all life aspects and issues The third option: Global Law, the need to have it, and the benefits (Part II) Life is protected by Global Law SoulLife, Nature Law, the teaching of the Soul of Humanity with the teaching of the prophet are fundamental pillars of our Global Law  Global Justice for all life on the planet To protect our planetary environment, the global life-support systems, we want to help you concerning all issues. e Global Protection Agency (GPA) Labor force aspects and issues
Peace and disarmament  Global Peace Movement aspects and issues.  Movement for WMDs Disarmament aspects and issues What Peace amongst nations means?
Have shelter and basic clothing Primordial human rights are those human rights that individuals have by virtue of their very existence as human beings
Global voting The process of global voting on the Internet  Global voting on the sovereignty of Tibet and on the Dalai Lama as a peacemaker
Sustainable agriculture and food supplies  Agriculture and food production aspects and issues  Food production for all global communities aspects and issues
Water resources protection and drinking fresh water Global Ministry on Water Resources Drinking water, clean air and food for all  drinking water issues and rights Drinking water sources
Ombudspersons Office Global Constitution Chapter IX     The democratic base of Earth Government Global Constitution Chapter XIV     Global Community Earth Government with its governing institutions and bodies
Global Information Media ( GIM )   Global  Information  Media ( GIM )  Global Information Media (GIM) daily proclamations
Volunteering Global Community volunteers
Breathing clean air  Drinking water, clean air and food for all
Global Community Assessment Centre ( GCAC)  Global Community Assessment Centre (GCAC) is the assessment Centre for  Global Community
Preventive actions against polluters  Preventive actions against polluters aspects and issues. Preventive actions against polluters
Eating a balance diet Drinking water, clean air and food for all   Food production for all global communities aspects and issues
Sustainable use of human and natural resources  Building Global Communities for all life aspects and issues   Global development management aspects and issues
' Clean ' energy Energy management, issues and rights Sustainable energy
Eradicating poverty and hunger  Eradicating poverty   Eradicating poverty   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
Universal health care and education for everyone  Universal health care for every Global Community citizen
Global Rights Global Rights year one is new impetus of  Global Community  to educate everyone about the need for a change in thinking and of doing things amongst all nations.
All of the above essentials for this generation and the next ones  Overpopulation issues and management Peace amongst nations means having a global vision for humanity and knowing what is needed to give a healthy future to the next generations.


Global Movement to Help main listing:
  • Federation of Global Governments Head Quarters (HQ)Federation of Global Governments Head Quarters Federation of Global Governments
  • Essential services Main index the Global Movement to Help essential services   Essential services
  • Global Justice Network Global Justice Network  Global Justice Network
  • Global Protection Agency (GPA) Main index of the  Global Protection Agency (GPA)  Global Protection Agency (GPA)
  • Global Rights Global Rights
  • Portal of Global Community Portal of  Global Community
  • Portal Global Dialogue 2009 Main website of Global Dialogue 2009
  • Global Information Media (GIM) proclamations    Global Information Media (GIM) proclamations
  • Portal of Global Dialogue 2008 Portal of Global Dialogue 2008
  • Proceedings of the Global Dialogue   Proceedings of the Global Dialogue
  • Global Peace Movement amongst nations and people Global Peace Movement amongst nations and people
  • Global Citizens voting on issues Global Community voting on issues


The formation of global ministries
Artwork by Germain Dufour
October 2014
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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.

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.

Global Community has researched and developed several important global ministries:

1 Air
2 Water
3 Mining
4 Electromagnetic waves
5 Fisheries
6 Tourism
7 Environment
8 Forests
9 Soils
10 Fossil fuels
    Trade laws to facilitate cross border transactions
Consumers' rights impinge on the rights of other humans living in Global Civilization . 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.


Short term solution to saving the world, the Scale of Global Right.

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.
Artwork by Germain Dufour
October 2014
( see enlargement 6 MB 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 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.


The Scale of Global Rights shows social values in order of importance, and so helps us truly understand the rights of an individual and a community for humanity's survival on our planet.

The Scale of Global Rights shows social values in order of importance, and so helps us truly understand the rights of an individual and a community for humanity's survival on our planet.
Artwork by Germain Dufour
October 2014
( see enlargement 9 MB The Scale of Global Rights shows social values in order of importance, and so helps us truly understand the rights of an individual and a community for humanity's survival on our planet. )

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 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 Global Civilization 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.

Perhaps the Scale of Global Rights Scale of Global Rights Human and Earth rights  Scale of Human and Earth Rights Chapter X   of the Global Constitution is about the  Scale of Human and Earth Rights represents the strongest pillar of our vision.

In 1985, the Scale of Global Rights (.mp4 (20 MB) 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.

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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 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.

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 Global Civilization 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
  •     global 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 is a balancing process to sustain all life on the planet now and future generations

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

Scale of Global Rights

( see enlargement Definition of the Scale of Global Rights)
Definition of the Scale of Global Rights Scale of Global Rights Human and Earth rights  Scale of Global Rights Chapter X   of the Global Parliament Constitution  is about the  Scale of Human and Earth Rights
Artwork by Germain Dufour
June, 2010

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

CO2 concentration: Mauna Loa curve

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Long term solution to saving the world, Global Parliament.


Making clear to all people what they Making clear to all people what they can no longer do and must do for survival can no longer do and must do for life survival on Earth.

Politics and Justice without borders:  Earth governance

( see enlargement Politics and Justice without borders:  Earth governance )
Politics and Justice without borders: Earth governance
Artwork by Germain Dufour
June 6, 2010

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 Global Civilization 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.


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.

Global Parliament
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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 Global Civilization 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 Introduction to  Federation of Global Governments essential services   are offering the	Global Movement to Help
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.

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Conclusion.

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.

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.

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.

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. 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.

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.

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 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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Global Civilization

This 21st century is very crucial for humanity as it will determine our survival or not as a species and, consequently, the survival of the next generations. Global Civilization Global Civilization, the 21st century Vision of Global Community is proposing to the world a way to achieve our survival. Critical steps to take now for our survival are:

a)  the acceptance as inner truth and implementation of the Scale of Global Rights Scale of Global Rights; and
b)  to activate essential global ministries global ministries as the most important action of Global Civilization.

Earth has long been waiting for a truly global governing body based on universal values, human rights, global concepts and democracy. We might as well start this creating process now, there is no longer any reason to wait. But then Global Civilization is already here. And yes, why not one for global politic? Global Civilization? As never before in history, common destiny beckons us to seek a new beginning. It requires a new sense of global interdependence and universal responsibility. We must develop and apply the vision of a sustainable way of life locally, nationally, regionally, globally, and within ourselves throughout life. Our cultural diversity is a precious heritage and different cultures will find their own distinctive ways to realize the vision. Global Civilization has now a Vision of the Earth in Year 2024 Vision of Earth in Year 2024 and a sense of direction. Global Civilization embarks on a new path in history, the inevitability of global societies living, sharing, and creating symbiotical relationships interactively is, beyond doubt, that which we must confront. Our creativity today may influence tomorrow's socio-economic strategies and contribute to the evolution of human societies - an evolution directed towards a global partnership and cooperation with each other for survival.

In order to build a sustainable global community, each individual, each local community, and national governments of the world must initiate their commitment to Global Civilization. Global Civilization was defined Global Civilization, the 21st century Vision of Global Community as a social, political and religious movement in the sense of having a broad organizational structure and an ideology aimed at governing. The environmental movement, within Global Civilization, expresses the concerns of groups of people regarding depletion of water, clean air, climate change aspects, degradation of land and other changes in ecosystems affecting traditional patterns of natural resources exploitation The Scale is the primary guide for the decision-making process.. Global Civilization has taken the role of helping these groups in protecting and managing the environment by coordinating their efforts. Global Civilization is aware that religious beliefs, 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 we 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 Global Civilization is concerned, cultural and religious differences cannot be a reason or an excuse or a pretext for not respecting human rights including 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 and ecological rights living realities. Diversity enriches us if it respects the dignity of each individual, and if it takes account of  human and ecological rights as a whole.

Global Civilization is truly the age of symbiotical relationships and global cooperation, promoting and establishing more new, diversified and meaningful symbiotical relationships between nations, communities, and people of the world. Governance of Earth through global cooperation and symbiotical relationships is the only possible option for a large population such as the Earth's population  The governance of Earth through global cooperation and symbiotical relationships was the only possible option for a large population such as the Earth's population. Global Civilization promotes a culture based on respect and care for Global Civilization of Life Celebration of Life Day and is building democratic societies that are just, participatory, sustainable, and peaceful to:
a.  Ensure that communities at all levels are guaranteed global rights and fundamental freedoms and provide everyone an opportunity to realize his or her full potential.
b.  Promote social and economic justice, enabling all to achieve a secure and meaningful livelihood that is ecologically responsible.
c.  Educate children to understand a broad panorama of human truths ~ all those universal needs and rights every one shares within Global Civilization.
d.  Establish the Scale of Global Rights has an inner truth and the benchmark of the millennium in how we see all values.
e.  Guarantee that the Earth Court of Justice will bring security, peace and Justice for all. We will no longer fear the unknown as Justice is for everyone and is everywhere, a universal constant.
 
For the first time in human history, and the first time this millennium, Global Civilization has proposed a benchmark:
*   formation of global ministries global ministries in all important aspects of our lives;
*   the Scale of Global Rights as a replacement to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights Universal Declaration of Human Rights. ;
*   an evolved democracy based on Global Civilization principles and values;
*   a central organization for the restoration of the planet and Earth governance: Global Civilization;
*   the Earth Court of Justice •Justice for all with Global Law. to deal with all aspects of the governance and mangement of the Earth;
*   a new impetus given to the way of doing business and trade New way of doing business and trade.;
*   more new, diversified (geographical, economical, political, social, business, religious) symbiotical relationships between nations, communities, businesses, for the good and well-being of all;
*   proposal to reform the United Nations, the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, the IMF, NAFTA, FTAA, and to centralize them under Global Civilization, and these organizations will be asked to pay a global tax to be administered by Global Civilization;
*   the Peace Movement of Global Civilization and shelving of the war industry from humanity;
*   a global regulatory framework for capitals and corporations that emphasizes global corporate ethics Global ethic for a business must always be grounded in realities. Global Community Ethics, corporate social responsibility, protection of global rights, the environment, community and family aspects, safe working conditions, fair wages and sustainable consumption aspects;
*  the ruling by the Earth Court of Justice on the abolishment of the debt of the developing nations as it was really a form of global tax to be paid annually by the rich or industrialized nations to the developing nations; and
*   establishing freshwater and clean air as primordial human rights Global Ministry on Water Resources..

Earth Governance

Global Civilization has no intention of changing the status and privileges of state governments. In fact, state governments become primary members of Global Civilization. Global governance can only be effective within the framework of Global Community. There is no such thing as global governance through the work of a few international organizations such as the WTO, the EU, or the United Nations dictating to the rest of the world. These organizations are heading in the wrong direction and are causing conflicts between nations, doing away with democracy, increasing the gap between rich and poor, and creating a culture of violence worldwide, terrorism being a small example of what they can do. That is global leadership gone bad, based on greed and immoral. Global Civilization has put forward a different kind of global leadership, governance and management. As Global Civilization begins 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 Earth governance is able to cope with global problems.

Earth governance does not imply a lost of state sovereignty and territorial integrity. A nation government exists within the framework of an effective Global Civilization protecting common global values and humanity heritage. Earth governance gives a new meaning to the notions of territoriality, and non-intervention in a state way of life, and it is about protecting the cultural heritage of a state. Diversity of cultural and ethnic groups is an important aspect of Earth governance. Earth governance is a balance between the rights of states with rights of people, and the interests of nations with the interests of Global Civilization, the human family, the global civil society. Earth governance is also 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.

Effective Earth governance requires a greater understanding of what it means to live in a more crowded, interdependent humanity with finite resources and more pollution threatening the global life-support systems. Global Civilization has no other choice but to work together at all levels. The collective power is needed to create a better world. Let us all work together to build a greater and most trusty Global Civilization. Earth needs urgently a world system of governance. The United Nations failed to satisfy the needs of the people of the 21st Century. It has never improved upon the old 20th Century ways and thinking. Its voting system no longer satisfy the 7 billion people on Earth. The challenges are different and require a world organization up for dealing with the needs of all Peoples.

Earth Management

For the survival of our species on Earth, Earth Environmental Governance The Global Community is for all life on Earth and is the 21st century framework for Earth governance can only be achieved successfully within the larger context of Sustainable Developent and Earth Management Global Sustainability: Earth Management aspects and issues. . All aspects are inter-related and affect one another. A healthy environment is essential to long term prosperity and well-being of societies, and global citizens in Global Civilization demand a high level of ecological protection. This is the 'raison d'etre' of the Scale of Global Rights. The Scale is the guiding tool to sustainability, governance and management of the Earth. Global Civilization gives us a 'sense of direction' for future planning and managing of the Earth. We have the responsibility of managing Earth. Earth management Earth management and governance. is now well defined and becomes a goal to achieve. We no longer waste energy and resources in things that are absolutely unimportant. Earth management  Earth management The four interacting circles are quality systems. is about
"a sound balance among the interactions of the impacts (positive and/or negative), or stresses, on the four major quality systems: People, Economic Development, Environment and Availability of Earth Resources"
with the idea that free trade and the planetary trading blocks are serving Global Civilization and not the other way around for self-interests and the benefits of a few people on Earth, and that will bring into being a sound sustainable development within Global Civilization. Earth management includes the entire cycle of doing things. When we do exploration work, develop, manufacture, produce, mine, farm or create a product, Vision of Earth in Year 2024 we become legally and morally responsible and accountable of the product from beginning to end (to the point where it actually becomes a waste; we are also responsible for the proper disposable of the waste). This product may be anything and everything from oil & gas, weapons, war products, construction products, transportation and communications products and equipment, to genetically engineered food products. All consumer products! All medical products! All pharmaceutical products! In order words, a person (a person may be an individual, a community, a government, a business, an NGO, or an institution) becomes responsible and accountable for anything and everything in his or her Life.

A corporation will now be required to operate its business Global ethic for a business must always be grounded in realities. New way of doing business within Global Civilization as per global ehtics:
*   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;
*    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; and
*    Conserve energy and improve energy efficiency of internal operations and of the goods and services being sold

Global Consumption

The argument for 'free trade' insists on that countries should specialize in certain products that they are good at producing and buy from other countries what they are not good at producing, so that the economy is more efficient. What kind of efficiency is it, when the pieces of a product are sent half way around the world to be assembled in a country with cheap labour, then shipped back to be sold? It may be profitable to some businesses, but it is a waste of time and energy as well as resources, and moving products this way is not environmentally friendly and is a threat to the global life-support systems. What kind of efficiency is that? Huge amounts of money are spent on marketing to get people to buy things that they don't need. Where is the efficiency in that? Perceiving and understanding the human population in its role as a consumer is very important because consumers collectively spend two thirds of a country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). They buy and influence the purchase of an increasingly wide array of products. Despite the fact that we are making consumer decisions in an emerging Global Civilization, people are still being taught how to be "good consumers", when actually the word consume means, "to destroy, use or expend". The enormous productive capacities and market forces of the planet have been committed to satisfying human needs and desires with little overall regard to the short-term or long-term future of life on the planet, or life in other nations or in future generations.

There are many different types of consumers, and they all need to be taken into account separately: teen, young adult, elderly, low income, disabled, illiterate, and ethnic. Each type of consumers need to be understood from the point of view of global sustainability; that is a global perspective that challenges materialism and promotes ecological responsibility, humanitarianism, well-being, consumer ethics and Global Civilization concepts. These concepts were developed to sustain Earth and they include world conditions, global problems and issues, global citizenship, stewardship of the ecosystem of the Earth, a moral and a spiritual community, universal values, and global interconnections.

Consumption in developed and developing countries has risen much faster over the past decades than in the industrialized countries due to their high rate of population growth, fast urban development, increased motorization and industrialization. Global Civilization is concerned with the sustainability of current levels and patterns of consumption and with the economic, political, personal, environmental, availability of resources, societal and spiritual impact of excessive, run-away consumption. About 20% of Earth’s population account for 80% of the world's total consumption. Global Civilization has assigned itself the task of finding ways to make consumption, consumer rights and responsibilities:
*    Fair to the well-being of others;
*    Socially responsible and sustainable to future generations;
*    In line with the universal values of Global Civilization; and
*    In line with human rights and responsibilities.
Consumers' rights impinge on the rights of other people living in Global Community Global Community 30th Anniversary (1985-2015) and achievements. 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 global 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 global 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.

Responsible consumption within Global Civilization means being aware of:
*    global dynamics, the state of the planet, and the differences of other cultures;
*    the impact of consumption and production on the environment;
*   notions of voluntary simplicity and conservation;
*    the consequences of resource management decisions;
*    a sustainable life style;
*    the impacts of new and different technologies;
*    the impacts of economic development on the integrity of both developed and developing local indigenous communities, infrastructures and natural environments;
*    the impacts on human rights, political stability, societal well-being, cultural sustainability, familial well-being, quality of life and standards of living of other nations; and
*    the impacts of a decision made by a family living in developed country to consume a particular good on the household subsistence, production and community activity of a family living in a developing country; and be aware if that decision would affect poverty, potable water, food diversity, arable land, security from war, education, communications.
Consumers operate in an impersonal market economy where they make choices unburdened by guilt or social obligations; they just have to be able to pay. But a typical global community consumer see himself/herself as part of a larger whole that is affected by a collectivity of individual consumption decisions and has to question the global integrity of purchasing a product, and will decide not to purchase at all if the integrity is being challenged. Free trade encourages countries to change their economic infrastructures to be in line with the free trade policies of the World Trade Organization(WTO). Many member countries have already prioritised economic growth over social, environmental  and human rights aspects. The WTO, foreign corporations and world business leaders claim that free trade brings sweeping democracy to all. They claim trade globalization is a forerunner of democracy in nations where it is non-existent. Global Civilization does not believe that democracy will automatically succeed in a global free market. In fact, free trade is itself a flagrant abuse of democracy.

In the Vision of Earth in Year 2024 Vision of Earth in Year 2024, Global Civilization has shown that global energy consumption will rise by 60% due to population growth, urbanization, and economic and industrial expansion. To meet demand, conventional fuels and technologies will impact badly on an already degraded environment, public health and welfare, and global stability. World energy demand can be largely fulfilled by renewable energy technologies. There is however a strong opposition to change arising from the fossil fuel industry and from governments of most oil-producing nations and major fossil fuel users. There are significant advantages of shifting away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy and toward greater reliance on renewables. Decreasing the impacts of global warming is certainly the most significant advantage. Global carbon emissions must be reduced at least 70% over the next hundred years to stabilize atmospheric CO2 concentrations at 450 parts per million (ppm). The sooner societies begin to make the transition from fossil fuels to renewables, the lower will be the impacts and the associated costs of both climate change and emissions reductions. Other costs of conventional energy production and use are:

1.  degradation of the environment through resource extraction;
2.  air, soil, and water pollution;
3.  acid rain;
4.  biodiversity loss;
5.  fuelling of the war industry, and therefore a threat to peace and Earth security and, in consequences, a threat to the global life-support systems;
6.  global economic losses due to natural disasters are in line with events anticipated as a result of global warming;
7.  nuclear power is one of the most expensive means of generating electricity and is responsible for nuclear accidents, weapons proliferation, and nuclear waste problems;
8.  political, economic and military conflicts over limited resources such as oil and fresh water become more important as demand increases;
9.  reliance on fossil fuels create less jobs; renewables create four times more jobs; and
10.  fossil fuels do not bring electricity in many developing countries but renewables can; no electricity means no access to education, clean water, improved health care, communications, and entertainment.
Global Civilization is interested to enact renewable energy policies that:
a)  are consistent and long-term to allow industries and markets to adjust;
b)  provide access to the electric grid ;
c)  educate and inform the public;
d)  encourage individual and cooperative ownership of projects;
e)  establish standards; and
f)  incorporate all costs in the price of energy sources.
Global consumption is a very important aspect of sustainable development. Consumers should be concerned with the impact of their decisions on the environment but also on the lives, human 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.Just as corporations have social responsibilities and so do consumers in societies. Consumers are socialized to improve the quality of their lives.


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