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Global Civilization citizenship.

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Becoming a Global Civilization citizen.

Criteria to obtain the Global Community Citizenship.

Positive and constructive actions in sustaining Global Civilization, all life, and in good governance and management of the Earth.

Positive actions to decrease the concentrations of greenhouse gases
Mines and mining the impacts
Our overpopulated planet
Storing CO₂ in terrestrial and ocean systems
Global trading practices

Corporate social responsibility.

Preventive actions against polluters.

Employment for every global citizen.

Global economy and trade.
Global economy

1.0        A democratically planned global economy
2.0        Profit-based conservation strategies for natural ecosystems

Business and trade

3.0        New way of doing business and trade
4.0        Profit-based conservation practices
5.0        Do not become a member of the WTO
6.0        Global trading practices
7.0        The policy of private-enterprise solutions to global warming

Societal sustainability

8.0        Food production for the Global Community
9.0        Sound solutions to help manage and sustain Earth
10.0        A global sustainable development
11.0        Portal of sustainable development
12.0        A democratically planned global economy - Societal Sustainability
13.0        Long term well-being as a solution to world sustainable development

Protection of the global life-support systems and ecosystems of our planet.

Certified Corporate Global Civilization Citizenship.

Policies to decrease world population.

Criteria to obtain the Global Community Citizenship.

Certified Corporate Global Community Citizenship (CCGCC)

Citizenship of Global Civilization, which will exist by virtue of a Treaty between nation governments and Global Parliament, is conferred on everyone who is a citizen of a Member State. Global Civilization citizenship is additional to, and does not replace, national citizenship. Election by universal suffrage when conducted by all Member States, will give the Global Parliament full legitimacy. By voting in its elections the citizens of Global Civilization enhance its status and influence.

Global Civilization citizenship gives citizens the right of free movement and residence in the territory of the Member States, the right to vote and stand for election in Global Civilization and local elections, the right to diplomatic protection in third countries, as well as:

- the right to petition the Global Parliament;

- the right to bring complaints before Global Civilization Ombudsman;

- the right to address any of the Global Community institutions or bodies in one of the official languages and to receive an answer in the same language.

Members of Global Parliament (GP) will be elected by direct universal suffrage at five-year intervals. They will be elected under a system of proportional representation. Elections are held either on a regional basis, or under a mixed system.

A common core of democratic rules applies everywhere:

1. the right to vote at 18,
2. equality of men and women, and
3. the principle of the secret ballot.

Transparency

Members of Global Parliament must declare in a public register their professional activities and any other paid work or office held. They must also declare their financial interests and other sources of income.

All peoples on Earth have been wondering what will it take to create and obtain a global community citizenship that is based on fundamental principles and values of Global Civilization. Now is time to enact your dream! It is time because humanity has no time to waste as we have done in the past. It is time to be what we are meant to become to save us and all life along with us. It is time to be citizens of the Earth. It is time to gather our forces and to stand for our global values, the only humane values that can save humanity and life on the planet from extinction.

You may be eligible to become a citizen of Global Civilization.

To become a citizen of Global Civilization you may be:

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

Global Civilization citizenship is given to anyone who accepts the Criteria of the Global Community citizenship as a way of life . It is time now to take the oath of global citizenship. We all belong to this greater whole, the Earth, the only known place in the universe we can call our home.

Before you make your decision, we are asking you to read very carefully the Criteria of Global Civilization citizenship, make sure you understand every part of the criteria, and then make the oath of belonging to the Global Community, Global Civilization.

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

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

Global Civilization welcomes you!

Negotiations with the United Nations are under way concerning worldwide acceptance of the Criteria of Global Civilization citizenship. It is expected that the U.N. accept worldwide Global Civilization citizenship and the Certified Corporate Global Community Citizenship (CCGCC). A Global Civilization citizen could travel the world with the global community VISA and work in nations where the VISA is obtained.

Global Civilization would conduct the proper investigation concerning the security aspects of global citizens requesting the VISA and also be responsible for the legitimacy of the application for the VISA. A VISA could have several different applications depending of the request:

a) work permit
b) short visit
c) volunteer work

Criteria to obtain citizenship

The statement of rights and responsibilities of a person and of belonging to 'a global community' and to Global Civilization.

Criteria to obtain Global Civilization citizenship
Copyright © 2000 Global Civilization. 1. Acceptance of the rights and responsibilities of a person belonging to 'a global community' and to Global Civilization. That is, to take such a stand has four parts:
a) I am not just a woman, I am a person, I am citizen of a global community,
b) I am not just a man, I am a person, I am citizen of a global community,
c) We are responsible, accountable and equal persons in every way and,

d) We are citizens of Global Community, Global Civilization. We need to take this stand for the survival of our species.
2. Acceptance of the concept of 'a global community'. The concept of 'a global community' is part of the Glass Bubble concept of a global community. The concept was first researched and developed by the Global Parliament and was summarized on Global Parliament website. Then it was further researched and developed by Global Parliament and results obtained were published in February 2003 Newsletter and further developed over the past years with latest findings published in June 2017 Newsletter.
We have already said that 'a global community' is not about a piece of land you acquired by force or otherwise. A typical global community may be what a group of people, together, wants it to be. It can be a group of people with the same values. It can be a group of people with the same cultural background, or the same religious background. One could think of a typical global community of a million people that does not have to be bounded by a geographical or political border. It can be a million people living in many different locations all over the world. Global Community is thus more fluid and dynamic. Global Civilization is this great, wide, wonderful world made of all these diverse global communities. We need to let go the archaic ways of seeing a community as the street where we live and contained by a border. The people making a global community may be living in many different locations on the planet. It can be a village, or two villages together where people have decided to unite as one global community. The two villages may be found in different parts of the world. It can be a town, a city, or a nation. It can be two or more nations together.

We can no longer perceive ourselves as a People who could survive alone and a People who does not need anyone else. We belong and depend to this much larger group, that of Global Civilization. The 21st Century will see limitless links and symbiotical relationships with and within Global Community. A global symbiotical relationship between two or more nations, or between two or more global communities, can have trade as the major aspect of the relationship or it can have as many other aspects as agreed by the people involved. The fundamental criteria is that a relationship is created for the good of all groups participating in the relationship and for the good of humanity, all life on Earth. The relationship allows a global equitable and peaceful development.
The emphasis of a global symbiotical relationship is not so much on how much money a nation should have or how high a GDP should be although money can be made a part of the relationship. We all know developed countries live off developing countries so the emphasis has no need to stress out the profit a developed nation is making off a developing nation. The emphasis of the relationship should give more importance to the other aspects such as quality of life, protection of the environment and of the global life-support systems, the entrenchment of the Scale of Global Rights and Global Constitution into our ways of life, justice, peace, cultural and spiritual freedom, security, and many other important aspects as described in the global ministries (health, agriculture, energy, trade, resources, etc.).

3. Acceptance of the Scale of Global Rights.

To determine rights requires an understanding of needs and reponsibilities and their importance. The Scale of Global Rights and the Global Law were researched and developed by Global Parliament to guide us in continuing this process. The Scale shows social values in order of importance and so will help us understand the rights and responsibilities of global communities.
Scale of Global Rights
* Ecological rights and the protection of the global life-support systems
* Primordial human rights
* The ecological rights, the protection of the global life-support systems and the primordial human rights of future generations
* Community rights and the right that the greatest number of people has by virtue of its number (50% plus one) and after voting representatives democratically
* Economic rights (business and consumer rights, and their responsibilities and accountabilities) and social rights (civil and political rights)
* Cultural rights and religious rights

4. Acceptance of Global Constitution to deal between us all.

Global Constitution is a declaration of interdependence and responsibility and an urgent call to build a global symbiotical relationship between nations for global sustainability. Global Civilization has focused people aspirations toward a unique goal: humanity survival now and in the future along with all Life on Earth. The "Belief, Values, Principles and Aspirations of Global Civilization" of Global Parliament's Constitution are closely interrelated. Together they provide a conception of global sustainability and set forth fundamental guidelines for achieving it; they were drawn from international law, science, philosophy, religion, and they were discussed as research papers during the global dialogues.

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

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

Global Civilization is promoting the settling of disputes between nations through the process of the Earth Court of Justice. Justice for all is what we want. Justice without borders! The Earth Court of Justice will hear cases involving crimes related to the global ministries. It will have the power to rule on cases involving crimes related to each one of the ministries.

Prosecuting criminals on the basis of universal jurisdiction regardless of a territorial or nationality nexus required a solid commitment of political will from national governments and Global Civilization. Once in effect, the Earth Court of Justice will become the principal judicial organ of Global Civilization. The Court will have a dual role: to settle in accordance with international law the legal disputes submitted to it by national governments, local communities, and in some special cases by corporations, non-government-organizations and citizens, and to give advisory opinions on legal questions referred to it by duly authorized organs and agencies.

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

The Earth Court of Justice will hear cases involving:

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

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

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

*     the Scale of Global Rights ,
*     belief, values, principles and aspirations of Global Civilization,
*     international treaties and conventions in force,
*     international custom,
*     the general principles of law,
*     as subsidiary means, judicial decisions and the teachings of the most highly qualified publicists,
*     the Statement of Rights and Responsibilities of Global Civilization citizens, and
*     the criteria of becoming a Global Civilization citizen.

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

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

Global Civilization welcomes you!

Positive and constructive actions in sustaining Global Civilization, all life, and in good governance and management of the Earth.

These are actions learned from previous Global Dialogues. In Global Dialogue 2018, participants from all sectors of life will describe and explain actions that they have performed in their own homes, communities, business places or in any other places on the planet. Depending on whether we find a sponsor to promote Global Dialogue 2018, we hope to be able to present your videos, CDs or other productions on our website.

Examples of actions from a few previous Global Dialogues:

Positive actions to decrease the concentrations of greenhouse gases
Mines and mining the impacts
Our overpopulated planet
Storing CO₂ in terrestrial and ocean systems
Global trading practices

Positive actions to decrease the concentrations of greenhouse gases

Global Civilization has created the Climate Change Ministry, the Earth Ministry of the Environment, and offer national governments all over the world to coordinate efforts in implementing Global Civilization Action Plan with regard to climate change. There are thousands of actions everyone in Global Civilization could take right now.

Positive actions:
1)     By developing a method of raising global taxes, of redistributing incomes to the poorest communities, of providing debt-free technical assistance to non-industrial and developing countries to help them out of poverty and to meet environmental and social standards.

2)     Aboriginal Peoples as well as everyone else in the world have noticed that the climate has changed over the past years. They came forward (actions) and said that they too had observed climate changes over the past years and generations. In some countries the temperature has increased by one or two degrees and natural catastrophes are becoming more and more frequent. Flooding or freshwater scarcity as well as water pollution are harming the global environment and the global life-support systems. Therefore, all regions are facing a common problem which is linked to climate change, that's why we should negotiate honestly and find a compromise as quickly as possible. If no solution is suggested, developed countries like the USA will repeat the same mistakes as the developing world. In 2016, President Donald Trump announced that the United States was withdrawing from signing the Paris Agreement on climate change, thus causing widespread condemnation in the European Union and many sectors in the United States.

World industrial activity, especially in the USA, is now profoundly affecting the atmospheric environment. It is now the population number and industrialization that makes the major impacts on the atmosphere. The most important changes affecting the atmosphere are due to the growth in the burning of fossil fuels. The burning of fossil fuels critically and destructively increases carbon dioxide concentrations and air pollutants. The clearing of forested lands for agriculture and other purposes, and forest fires, have reduced the amount of carbon absorbed by forests and contributed to the increase of atmospheric carbon dioxide. We have disturbed a fragile balance by causing chemical changes in the global atmosphere. And that is the most important factor causing the climate to change uncontrollably.

Urban air pollution is a mixture of several pollutants emitted from different energy and industrial processes, and of secondary pollutants in the atmosphere. Some air pollutants are more important than others. At a given concentration some pollutants are more toxic or more unpleasant. Pollutants have different effects related to health, ecosystems, economics and aesthetic. Global Civilization offers the world to manage water, air and land pollutants.

3)     Tropical tree plantations may be an important component of the global carbon cycle because they represent a carbon sink that can be manipulated by humans and they ca mitigate the effects of tropical deforestation, which is the main biotic source of atmospheric carbon.

Most forest plantations in the tropics are planted with fast growing trees that culminate in volume and biomass production earlier than natural forests. These high biomass production forests have a high capacity to sequester atmospheric CO₂ and hence assist in mitigating global warming. Sequestration of CO₂ in plantations occurs in tree biomass (stems, branch, foliage and roots), forest floor and as storage in the soil. Young growing forests are one of the best means to removing CO₂ (the gas partially responsible for the greenhouse effect) from the air. Thus planting forests help to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide in the air (by the action of sunlight on the green chlorophyll organic compound, CO₂ is absorbed by trees through the small fissures in the leaves or needless, these gases are fixed as biomass).

4) By increasing vegetation in urban areas will reduce the urban heat, and the impacts of other urban environmental problems, which will be exacerbated under climate change. Reducing the urban heat will also reduce the energy demand for space conditioning, and hence greenhouse gas emissions. Plants directly reduce the urban heat through evaporative cooling but further reduce energy consumption through shading. The most common strategy to increase urban vegetation is to plant trees at ground level. However, where space is not available for trees, vegetation can be grown on building roofs, but walls offer far more space, hence vertical gardening is a viable alternative.

5) The Paris Agreement is the latest step in the ongoing United Nations' effort to address global warming. The effort began with the United Nations' Framework Convention on Climate Change (Convention) signed during the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. (The Convention entered into force in 1994 upon the ratification by 50 nations) Despite the continuing scientific debate on the likely occurrence of global warming, the nations took action under the "precautionary principle" of international law.

The Convention is intended to stabilise greenhouse gas concentrations at a level that will prevent dangerous interference with the global climate system. The time frame is to be "sufficient to allow ecosystems to adapt naturally to climate change, to ensure that food production is not threatened and to enable economic development to proceed in a sustainable manner."

The Convention recognises the importance of preserving and enhancing the Earth's natural ability to remove certain greenhouse gases from the atmosphere by FORESTS and other carbon stocks, referred to as "sinks". The removal by sinks is also a key component of the Protocol, which allows countries to meet their commitments by considering the effects of afforestation, reforestation and deforestation since 1990, a provision that is expected to promote cost-effective solutions to climate change and good forestry practices.

Mines and mining the impacts

In year 2024, a study made by Global Civilization of the ecological accounting and balance sheet for mining has shown that minerals are obtained in a way that:

*    uses too much energy;
*    generates too much pollution and causes significant health and safety problems;
*    degrades permanently the environment during extraction, refining, and smelting of minerals; and
*    encourages poor regions to yoke their futures.

It would be much less costly to recycle discarded materials. It makes no sense to spend so much energy trying to find new mines when there is an enormous amount of useful metal in cities and landfills. For instance, why do we need to keep gold in safety deposit boxes, bank vaults, and jewelry boxes? There is more gold in boxes than in underground mines.

Mines have transformed landscapes and the lives of local people who live near mineral deposits. Entire communities have been uprooted in order to make way for mine projects. People had to forsake traditional occupations and suffer the effects of living beside a mine that poisons their water supplies or pollutes the air they breathe. Local people who got jobs in a mine had to trade health problems for an income. Prostitution and drug use are serious problems at mining sites.

In fact, mineral dependence reduces economic growth in developing countries. Extracting raw materials for export is far less lucrative than processing the materials or manufacturing finished goods. By extracting minerals, countries are essentially running down their stocks of nonrenewable resources.

Mineral exporting-countries become heavily indebted to international lenders and much of what they earn from minerals and other exports never enters the national economy but is used instead to service the external debt. These countries have typically invested little in social services, such as education and health care, and are beleaguered by conflicts over resources and political instabilities.

In year 2024, even though social, economic and environmental costs of mining are high and mineral prices are low, mining operations are still expanding. Mining firms have profited from direct and indirect subsidies handed out to them by governments. Mining firms benefits a lot from the cheap fuel and from the roads and other infrastructure made available to them. Even more surprising, mining firms do not usually pay royalties or taxes on profits, and governments provide immunity to companies against compensation claims. The final hand-out of public money occurs when mines have to close down or are abandoned, and governments and taxpayers are stuck with cleanup after companies have gone bankrupt or just walked away from poor projects.

Global Civilization offers to manage all natural resources. We need to create a Global Ministry for the economic sharing, production and distribution of resources, especially global resources such as minerals, oil and natural gas. We need global ministries for the most important commons. With natural resources held in a Commons Trust Fund for all, it would be much easier to establish a global sharing economy, which is to equalise global consumption levels so that world population can flourish within ecological limits. To achieve this, over-consuming countries need to significantly reduce their natural resource use, while developing countries must be able to increase theirs until a convergence in global per capita consumption levels is eventually reached.

Our overpopulated planet

Perhaps the most important step towards achieving global sustainability is to control our population growth. World overpopulation is now at the turning point and requires from each and every one of us a statement of rights and belonging to the Global Civilization:

a) I am not just a woman, I am a person, I am member of a global community;
b) I am not just a man, I am a person, I am member of a global community;
c) We are responsible, accountable and equal persons in every way, and we will manage wisely our population; and
d) We are members of Global Civilization.

In year 2024, we are not asking here a woman to have only one child like is done in China. No! First of all it does not work in China. The Chinese population is still increasing. We are asking here to give a woman the choice, the freedom to say no I dont want children, or yes I want to raise a family, and to make that socially acceptable. For this to work, women must also be given equal rights to men in every way. The Chinese family policy does not work because women were not given the freedom to choose for themselves and the equal rights to men. Women are 'persons' just like men. Those men and women who choose to raise a family (one or more than one children, preferably more than one child) will be given all the help society can give them.

The effect of such change in behavior will imply a true acceptance of belonging to Global Civilization and that humanity must step forward as a responsible body for the good of all. The heart, mind and human spirit of Global Civilization will want to be in the forefront of positive actions and human activities to ensure our survival.

This is not new. In many parts of the world a man is no longer seen as the 'head of the family', the 'provider'. In year 2024, both men and women have taken that role depending of circumstances and social factors. Women are no longer seen as subservient persons and breeding machines. Women are seen as equal to men. Women's rights protect the equality between a man and a woman.

In year 2024, Global Civilization has long recognized that greater equality between men and women is an essential element of slowing down world population growth. It was observed that fertility rates were falling everywhere women were allowed to determine when and whether they will have children. Gender inequality also impacts on resource use and the prospects for sustainability and biodiversity protection. Training and education along with their greater sense of nature ans shelter protection give women the tools they need to make resource use more equitable and efficient within communities and to mobilize against environmental and health hazards.

Global Civilization is deadicted to give women:

a) equal rights;
b) access to and control of natural resources and land;
c) stronger voices in decisions about sustainable resource use;
d) education on impacts of consumerism and sustainable consumption; and
e) access to modern methods of contraception and reproductive health services.

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

In practical sense, agriculture cannot feed a human population that has grown beyond the capacity limit. We must ask ourselves whether we can stop the growth by means that are voluntary and benign, or whether the eventual environmental restraint will be out of our hands. At some questionable time in our future we will find that our soil will no longer have the nutrients it needs to produce quality food. For some time we may counter this problem by fresh weathering of rock. Not for long! The loss of lifeforms on Earth will be permanent.

Obviously something has to be done! Global Civilization proposes a tight global policy, benignly implemented, or it will be very nasty indeed. In practice, a human population of 10 to 12 billion would be too uncomfortably high and would add a high strain on world resources. What kind of world population would be reasonable? What goal should we aim at? A population should be small enough to be sustainable indefinitely and still allow plenty of leeway for ourselves and other lifeforms. It should also be large enough to allow the formation of healthy civilizations.

In year 2024, comprehensive population policies are an essential element in a world development strategy that combines access to reproductive health services, to education and economic opportunities, to improved energy and natural resource technologies, and to healthyer models of consumption and the "good life."

Global Civilization proposes policies to decrease world population:

delay reproduction until later in life;

Delaying reproduction is important in influencing population growth rates. Over a period of 60 years, if people delay reproduction until they are 30 years old, you would have only two generations, while if you do not delay reproduction you would have three generations (one generation every 20 years).
spread your children farther apart;

to have fewer children overall;

government commitment to decreasing population growth;

Create policies that help decreasing the number of children being born. Policies such as income tax deductions for dependent children and maternity and paternity leaves are essentially pronatalist and should be eliminated.
programs that are locally designed and that include information on family planning and access to contraceptives; and

educational programs that emphasize the connection between family planning and social good.

The vast disparities in reproductive health worldwide and the greater vulnerability of the poor to reproductive risk point to several steps all governments can take, with the support of other sectors, to improve the health of women and their families:

Give women more life choices; the low social and economic status of women and girls sets the stage for poor reproductive health;

Invest in reproductive health care;

Encourage delays in the onset of sexual activity and first births;

Help couples prevent and manage unwanted childbearing;

Ensure universal access to maternal health care;

Support new reproductive health technologies;

Increase efforts to address the HIV pandemic;

Involve communities in evaluating and implementing programs;

Develop partnerships with the private sector, policymakers and aid donors to broaden support for reproductive health; and

Measure Progress.

In year 2024, more and more young people on every continent want to start bearing children later in life and to have smaller families than at any time in history. Likewise, in greater proportions than ever, women and girls in particular want to go to school and to college, and they want to find fulfilling and well-paid employment. Helping people in every country obtain the information and services they need to put these ambitions into effect is all that can be done, and all that needs to be done, to bring world population growth to a stable landing in the new century.

Global Civilization needs to develop a more exciting synergy between sustainable development, consumption and family well-being. New concepts (the human family, human responsibilities, human security, citizenship education) and old concepts (quality of life, well-being, justice and standard of living) have been combined in conjunction with a comparative analysis of the alternative approaches to the GDP as a way to bring together a collection of viewpoints to understand a family perspective in sustainable consumption and development.

World overpopulation at the turning point requires each and every one of us to take a stand on rights and on being a part of Global Civilization.

We need to take this stand for the survival of our species. For sure, the most important step towards achieving sustainability is to control our population growth. To ensure our survival we must manage our population wisely.

Overpopulation is the cause of several major global problems such as:

*     lack of resources
*     poverty;
*     wars;
*     climate change;
*     damage to the global life-support systems;
*     a lesser quality of life;
*     threat to security;
*     lack of good quality soils for agriculture;
*     polluted air, water and land;
*     overcrowed cities;
*     weapons and war products and equipment able to spark global wars;
*     widespread drug, global rights abuse, more old and new diseases out of control;

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

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

Storing CO₂ in terrestrial and ocean systems

In year 2024, scientists have become more involved in assessing the viability of response options aimed at storing excess carbon in terrestrial or ocean systems. Land use changes from agricultural to forest ecosystems can help to remove carbon from the atmosphere at rates of 2 to 20 tonnes of carbon per hectare per year for periods of 50 years or more, until a new ecosystem equilibrium is reached. Similarly, soil conservation practices can help build up carbon reservoirs in forest and agricultural soils. Proposals to extract CO₂ from smoke stacks and dispose of it in liquid form in underground reservoirs or deep oceans also need careful evaluation in terms of long-term feedbacks, effectiveness and environmental acceptability. However, much remains to be learned about the biological and physical processes by which terrestial and ocean systems can act as sinks and permanent reservoirs for carbon.

In year 2024, Global Civilization can contribute in evaluating options and strategies for adapting to climate change as it occurs, and in identifying human activities that are even now maladapted to climate. There are two fundamental types of response to the risks of climate change:

1. reducing the rate and magnitudes of change through mitigating the causes, and
2. reducing the harmful consequences through anticipatory adaptation.

Mitigating the causes of global warming implies limiting the rates and magnitudes of increase in atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, either by reducing emissions or by increasing sinks for atmospheric CO₂. Reducing the harmful consequences can be achieved by co-operating together with the global ministries on climate change and emergencies. In year 2024, Global Civilization has created the global ministries to help humanity be prepared to fight the harmful consequences of a global warming through anticipatory adaptation. The global ministries on climate change and emergencies are now operating. The ministries have developed:

1. policy response to the consequences of the global warming, and
2. strategies to adapt to the consequences of the unavoidable climate change.

Global Civilization also proposes that all nations of the world promote the Scale of Global Rights and the criteria to obtain Global Community Citizenship. Every global citizen lives a life with the higher values described in the Scale and the criteria. Global citizens are good members of Global Civilization. Most global problems, including global warming and world overpopulation, can be managed through acceptance of the Scale and the criteria.

We need to improve on our ability to:

*    Predict future anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases. While demographic, technological and economic factors are in many respects inherently speculative, better observations and understanding of the processes by which human activities directly or indirectly contribute to emissions are clearly required. These in particular include emissions from deforestation and agricultural activities;
*    Obtain more data on the effect of human emissions on atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases. Not only do we need to reduce the uncertainties about past and current sinks for emitted greenhouse gases, but we need to better understand and quantify the long term feedbacks such as CO₂ fertilization and physical and biological response to climate change if we expect to improve our confidence in projections of future concentrations.
*    Measure direct and indirect effects of radiative forcing of greenhouse gases and aerosols.
*    Measure climate sensitivity to changes in radiative forcing.
*    Measure the response to climate change of biological and physical processes with the terrestrial and ocean systems
*    Obtain an early detection of the signal of human interference with the climate system against the change caused by natural forces or internal system noise is important in fostering timely and responsible coping actions.
*    Develop actions to limit emissions of greenhouse gases and prepare to adapt to climate change. However, stabilizing greenhouse gas emissions will not stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations and climate but only slow down the rates of change.
*    Live with the facts that climate change is unavoidable, atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations are already signficantly higher than pre-industrial levels, and that aggressive efforts to reduce their anthropogenic emission sources would only slow down the growth in their concentrations, not stop it. Therefore, policy response to this issue must also include strategies to adapt to the consequences of unavoidable climate change.

Global trading practices

In year 2024, the world has become global in most fields of life. Nowadays it is a necessity to co-operate in resolving global problems which makes global governance a quality of Global Civilization. The next most important achievement of Global Civilization will be the signing of a global agreement for the implementation of the Scale of Global Rights.

Global Civilization is requesting all members of the World Trade Organization(WTO) to change their ways by:

1.    building social and environmental concerns into the WTO trade rules;
2.     including ethical and moral safeguards, responsibility and accountability in all situations and places;
3.     developing a global regulatory framework for capitals and corporations;
4.     making a transition from global competition to global co-operation which allows communities the freedom to pursue social and environmental objectives;
5.     assuring that globalization and planetary trading blocks serve the Global Civilization and not the other way around for the benefit of a few rich people in the world; and
6.     developing a method of raising global taxes, of redistributing incomes to the poorest communities, of providing debt-free technical assistance to non-industrial and developing countries to help them out of poverty and to meet environmental and social standards.

Over its long past history trade has never evolved to require from the trading partners to become legally and morally responsible and accountable for their products from beginning to end. At the end the product becomes a waste and it needs to be properly dispose of. Now trade must be given a new impetus to be in line with the global concepts of Global Civilization. You manufacture, produce, mine, farm or create a product, you become legally and morally responsible and accountable of your product from beginning to end (to the point where it actually becomes a waste; you are also responsible for the proper disposable of the waste). This product may be anything and everything from oil & gas, weapons, war products, to genetically engineered food products. All consumer products. All medicinal products! All pharmaceutical products! In order words, a person becomes responsible and accountable for anything and everything in his or her life.

Corporate social responsibility.

We want to help you be an active corporate member of Global Civilization. Apply to us to be a global corporate citizen of Global Civilization.

As a business you may:

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

* environmental performance
* product safety
* business practices
* help small business in the least developed countries
* commitment to the community
* abolition of child labour
* eliminate discrimination in respect of employment and occupation
* employee relations and diversity
* effective recognition of the right to collective bargaining
* corporate governance
* share performance
* global corporate responsibility
* against corruption in all its forms, including extortion and bribery
* health, safety and security
* provided help to combat diseases such as AIDS
* uphold the freedom of association
* audits and inspections
* emergency preparedness
* corporate global ethical values
* ensured decent working conditions
* implemented no-bribe policies
* standards of honesty, integrity and ethical behaviour
* elimination of all forms of forced and compulsory labour
* in line with the Scale of Global Rights and Global Parliament's Constitution
h)     support a balance and responsible approach that promotes action on the issue of climate change as well as all other issues related to the global life-support systems:

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

Now is time to reach a higher level of protection of life on Earth. We all need this for the survival of our species. We can help you integrate and balance global life-support systems protection, global community participation, and economic decisions into your operations and products.

We want to help you be an active corporate member of Global Civilization.

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

A Certified Corporate Global Civilization 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 Civilization Citizenship

and following an assessment of your business. You are then asked to operate your business as per the values of the citizenship.

Preventive actions against polluters.

It is a crime against humanity and all life on Earth not to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, and the Paris Agreement in 2016. It is a terrible crime against the global life-support systems, against the very existence of the next generations. On the Scale of Global Rights the crime is of maximum importance. There is no need to wait for the election of Global Parliament to create the Earth Court of Justice.

The Court can be formed now and incorporated to Global Parliament later.

The world is too crowded and too small nowadays! And weapons too lethal! So security cannot be achieved through the military. The only job the military should be asked to do today is to protect the global life-support systems. These systems have the highest priority on the Scale of Global Rights and are certainly more important than any of the other rights on the Scale including security. Simply because without life there is no other right possible. Without Oxygen there is no life! Without clean water there is no life! So protect life on Earth at all costs. Wars are the biggest threat to life and the ecosystem of the planet.

The production and trade in arms should be listed as a criminal act against humanity; this global ministry will introduce a Convention on the curtailment of the arms trade, a provision for a mandatory Arms Register and the prohibition of the financing or subsidy of arms exports by governments.

The Earth Court of Justice

has listed America as the first nation to be prosecuted for a global environmental crime. Because the leader of the USA was responsible for not signing the Kyoto Protocol, President George W. Bush will be first to appear in Court. He is an evil man. In comparison, he makes Adolf Hitler and Saddam Hussein look like kids in the block. The splitting of America into separate independent states living at peace for the good of all worldwide would certainly be a better solution to all Americans and the world.

In year 2024, the United States have lost credibility as a nation able to lead others. They have opted out of resolving the problems of global warming and of going along with all other nations to ratify the Kyoto Protocol and the Paris Agreement. They have requested the International Court not to include their military as they dont want their soldiers to be taken to Court. In order word, Justice is for everyone else but not for them. They have created hate in the Middle East, the most ancient civilization, and they expect Global Civilization to go along with them and pay for a war they have created for the purpose of taking over the oil resources of the Middle East and, eventually, destroying China. China, another ancient civilization, is their next objective. Americans are obviously racists. They want the destruction of all ancient civilizations. They also have no respect for the survival of the human species and of all other lifeforms on Earth. They are a culture of violence and war. They are bullies.

A short while ago we heard the International Court being told by the United States that American soldiers were not to be taken to Court. How is it possible that a nation such as the United States can be abstained from Justice? How is it possible that the United Nations would not strongly react to such dismal of Justice? How is it possible that any nation, anyone at all, should be abstained from Justice? The judicial body is one of three bodies of a democracy: executive, legislative and judiciary. Take Justice out and you dont have a democracy. So how is it possible that the United States promotes democracy in the Middle East and everywhere else under the condition that there is no Justice applied to them. America wants to apply Justice with the help of their military to all of the Middle East nations. But they dont want Justice to be applied to themselves.

This is totally unacceptable! Justice is for everyone and is a universal constant. Justice should also be strongly applied in all aspects of global life: the environment, the misused of the Earth resources, problems between nations, the creation of new nations, trade and global ministries.

To answer the question of "How is it possible that the United Nations would not strongly react to such dismal of Justice?" is probably due to the fact that the UN is not a democracy. It never was a democracy! Justice is non-existent at the UN. The UN is an organization where politicians meet to receive instruction from the United States about what to do next. The UN follow the US lead because the US has a lot of money involved with the UN, and has also a lot of guns and mass destruction weapons for sell. So when the US say that Justice does not apply to Americans then all nations must comply. Noone at the UN ever thought for one moment to say that was wrong, and to tell Americans that Justice applies to everyone including Americans.

The reality here is that every American is on trial here. A large majority of the consumers in USA are also responsible for producing the deadly greenhouse gases from the burning of fossil fuels causing global warming, and they are all on trial. The same goes for every person on Earth producing the deadly gas. The gas is just as deadly as the gas that murdered millions of Jews during World War II. It is even more deadly as it is destroying the global life-support systems of all life on Earth. We are killing billions of human beings and countless life species. Americans have closed their conscience to the reality of life on Earth. They have no global consciousness. Justice must prevail to stop the "killing fields". And therefore they are guilty as charge.

It is a crime against humanity and all life on Earth not to ratify the Kyoto Protocol

and the Paris Agreement which entered into force on 4 November 2016.

It is a terrible crime against the global life-support systems, against the very existence of the next generations. On the Scale of Global Rights

the crime is of maximum importance. There is no need to wait for the election of Global Parliament to create the Earth Court of Justice. The Court can be formed now and incorporated later to Global Parliament.

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

Once in effect, the Earth Court of Justice will become the principal judicial organ of Global Civilization. The Court will have a dual role: to settle in accordance with Global Civilization international law and the legal disputes submitted to it by national governments, local communities, and in some special cases by corporations, non-government-organizations and citizens, and to give advisory opinions on legal questions referred to it by duly authorized organs and agencies.

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

In year 2024, the Earth Court of Justice will hear cases involving:

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

*     Global Parliament's Constitution,
*     the Scale of Global Rights ,
*     belief, values, principles and aspirations of the Global Civilization,
*     international treaties and conventions in force,
*     international custom,
*     the general principles of law and,
*     as subsidiary means, judicial decisions and the teachings of the most highly qualified publicists.

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

Global Civilization has broadened the traditional focus of the security

of states to include both the security of people as well as that of the planet. Global security policies include:

*     every person on Earth has a right to a secure existence, and all states have an obligation to protect those rights
*     prevention of conflicts and wars; identification, anticipation, and resolving conflicts before they become armed confrontations. The Earth Court of Justice will help here.
*     military force is not a legitimate political instrument
*     weapons of mass destruction are not legitimate instruments of national defence
*     eliminate all weapons of mass destruction from all nations and have inspectors verifying progress to that effect
*     all nations should sign and ratify the conventions to eliminate nuclear, chemical and biological weapons
*     the production and trade in arms should be listed as a criminal act against humanity; this global ministry will introduce a Convention on the curtailment of the arms trade, a provision for a mandatory Arms Register and the prohibition of the financing or subsidy of arms exports by governments
*     the development of military capabilities is a potential threat to the security of people and all life on Earth; the ministry will make the demilitarization of global politics a high priority.
*     anticipating and managing crises before they escalate into armed conflicts and wars
*     maintaining the integrity of the environment and global life-support systems
*     managing the environmental, economic, social, political and military conditions that threatened the security of people and the planet
*     over the past decades and even now today, all Five Permanent Members of the United Nations Security Council (mostly the United States and Britain) were responsible for selling weapons and war equipment. These three nations are required to give back to Global Civilization an amount of 8 trillion dollars (American) as a payment for the immense damage they have caused in the world. They have created a culture of violence throughout the world. They are nation bullies, nation predators. They are responsible for economic mismanagement, ethnic tensions, crimes, drug abuse, high unemployment, urban stress, worldwide poverty, and pressures on natural resources. Most conflicts in the world are direct legacies of cold war power politics, senseless politics. Other conflicts were caused by the end of the cold war and the collapse of old regimes. Other factors have combined to increase tension: religious, economical, political, and ethnic aspects.

Primordial human rights

come next on the Scale of Global Rights . Without a shelter life will still exist in some places but is not possible in cold place. There are many related aspects of the global life-support systems:

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

In the past, security was thought as better accomplished through military means. Expanding the military capabilities and forming alliances with other nations were the only way to 'win'. Today wars are unlikely to produce winners. Global Civilization is all over the planet. Ethnic groups are everywhere. Some say there are more Italians in Montreal, Canada that there are in Italy. So we would fight our own people? Wars truly make no sense! The world is too crowded and too small nowadays! And weapons too lethal! So security cannot be achieved through the military. The only job the military should be asked to do today is to protect the global life-support systems. These systems have the highest priority on the Scale of Global Rights and are certainly more important than any of the other rights on the Scale including security. Simply because without life there is no other right possible. Without Oxygen there is no life! Without clean water there is no life! So protect life on Earth at all costs. Wars are the biggest threat to life and the ecosystem of the planet.

So security must be achieved by other means than wars. We might as well shelved the war industry from humanity right now and that means phasing out all nuclear, biological, chemical weapons right now. No waiting! That also means having inspectors verifying the phasing out in all nations of the world, and not just in some Middle East country. The nature of global security has changed since the rise of the Global Parliament. Security used to be about the protection of the state and its boundaries, people, institutions and values from an outside threat. Global Parliament will emphasize as a priority the prohibition of external interference in the internal affairs of sovereign states. Today the security of people within the Global Parliament is just as important as the security of states. Citizens must be secure. Global Parliament is just as important as the security and life of global citizens and states.

There are many threats to security other than the threats to the global life-support systems and threat caused by weapons of mass destruction and the threats to the sovereignty of a state, and they include:

*     the proliferation of conventional small arms
*     the terrorizing of civilian populations by domestic groups
*     gross violations of Global Rights

Global security can only be achieved if it can be shared by all peoples and through global co-operation, based on principles as explained in the "Belief, Values, Principles and Aspirations of Global Civilization" of the Global Parliament's Constitution, such as justice, human dignity, and equity for all and for the good of all. All people and states are protected by Global Civilization.

Employment for every global citizen.

Universal health care, education, retirement security and employment services to every Global Community citizen

In year 2024, implemented through Global Civilization with built-in mechanisms for optimum input and oversight guaranteed to all member-states, Global Civilization offers a practicable starting point for achieving:

(a)     a healthful, sustainable environment for every global citizen,

(b)     universal health care, publicly supported,

(c)     education for all based upon individual capability,

(d)     creative/productive employment for every global citizen, and

(e)     post-retirement security.

This effort will lead over time to an escalation of human values and symbiotical relationships transcending money centered economics.

Global economy and trade.

Global economy

1.0 A democratically planned global economy
2.0 Profit-based conservation strategies for natural ecosystems

Business and trade

3.0        New way of doing business and trade
4.0        Profit-based conservation practices
5.0        Do not become a member of the WTO
6.0        Global trading practices
7.0        The policy of private-enterprise solutions to global warming

Societal sustainability

8.0        Food production for the Global Community
9.0        Sound solutions to help manage and sustain Earth
10.0        A global sustainable development
11.0        Portal of sustainable development
12.0        A democratically planned global economy - Societal Sustainability
13.0        Long term well-being as a solution to world sustainable development

Global economy

1.0 A democratically planned global economy
2.0 Profit-based conservation strategies for natural ecosystems

1.0 A democratically planned global economy

In year 2024, implemented through Global Civilization with built-in mechanisms for optimum input and oversight guaranteed to all member-states, a democratically planned global economy offers Global Civilization a practicable starting point for achieving:

(a)     a healthful, sustainable environment for every global community citizen,
(b)     universal health care, publicly supported,
(c)     education for all based upon individual capability,
(d)     creative/productive employment for every global citizen, and
(e)     post-retirement security.

The spirit of global competition be changed to a spirit of global cooperation; over its long past history trade has never evolved to require from the trading partners to become legally and morally responsible and accountable for their products from beginning to end. Now trade must be given a new impetus to be in line with the global concepts of Global Civilization. You develop, manufacture, produce, mine, farm or create a product, you become legally and morally responsible and accountable of your product from beginning to end (to the point where it actually becomes a waste; you are also responsible for the proper disposable of the waste). This product may be anything and everything.

Obtaining one ECO, the Certified Corporate Global Civilization Citizenship

will help businesses to be part of the solution to the challenges of globalisation. In this way, the private sector in partnership with the civil society can help realize a vision:

allowing a global equitable and peaceful development and a more stable and inclusive global economy.

This effort will lead over time to an escalation of human values and symbiotical relationships transcending money centered economics.

2.0 Profit-based conservation strategies for natural ecosystems

In year 2024, Global Civilization is promoting a methodological approach to an economic valuation as a framework incentive to enforce profit-based conservation strategies for natural ecosystems. Biodiversity and Protected Areas exist neither in isolation nor independent of human activities. For local communities, this may mean conservation represents a hindrance rather than an opportunity for sustainable development and thus lead to increasing avoidance of the regulatory framework in effect. Changes are needed to conservation practices in order to create a broader consensus around objectives and practices. One means of doing this is to ensure people adopt profit-based conservation practices.

Business and trade

3.0        New way of doing business
4.0        Profit-based conservation practices
5.0        Do not become a member of the WTO
6.0        Global trading practices
7.0        The policy of private-enterprise solutions to global warming

3.0 New way of doing business and trade

4.0 Profit-based conservation practices

Biodiversity and Protected Areas exist neither in isolation nor independent of human activities. For local communities, this may mean conservation represents a hindrance rather than an opportunity for sustainable development and thus lead to increasing avoidance of the regulatory framework in effect. A solution requires changes in conservation practices towards a broader consensus around objectives and practices. One means of doing this is to ensure people adopt profit-based conservation practices.

5.0 Do not become a member of the WTO

Global Civilization is recommending to the developing nations not to make deals with the developed countries. Do not accept money as loans from the IMF and World Bank.

Do not become a member of the WTO. Your best chance for survival is to build sustainable communities in your country. If you do need to make a deal with another nation, a symbiotical relationship based on economics, make sure it is for the interests of both of you. You have no need of a global membership on any kind. It would destroy you.

6.0 Global trading practices

The world has become global in most fields of life. Nowadays it is a necessity to co-operate in resolving global problems which makes global governance a quality of Global Civilization. The next most important achievement of the Human Family will be the signing of a global agreement on the Scale of Global Rights. Global Civilization is requesting all members of the World Trade Organization(WTO) to change their ways by:

1.    building social and environmental concerns into the WTO trade rules;
2.     including ethical and moral safeguards, responsibility and accountability in all situations and places;
3.     developing a global regulatory framework for capitals and corporations;
4.     making a transition from global competition to global co-operation which allows communities the freedom to pursue social and environmental objectives;
5.     assuring that globalization and planetary trading blocks serve Global Civilization and not the other way around for the benefit of a few rich people in the world; and
6.     developing a method of raising global taxes, of redistributing incomes to the poorest communities, of providing debt-free technical assistance to non-industrial and developing countries to help them to meet environmental standards.

In year 2024, over its long past history trade has never evolved to require from the trading partners to become legally and morally responsible and accountable for their products from beginning to end. At the end the product becomes a waste and it needs to be properly dispose of. Now trade must be given a new impetus to be in line with the global concepts of Global Civilization. You manufacture, produce, mine, farm or create a product, you become legally and morally responsible and accountable of your product from beginning to end (to the point where it actually becomes a waste; you are also responsible for the proper disposable of the waste). This product may be anything and everything from oil & gas, weapons, war products, to genetically engineered food products. All consumer products. All medicinal products! All pharmaceutical products! In order words, a person becomes responsible and accountable for anything and everything in his or her life.

7.0 The policy of private-enterprise solutions to global warming

Carbon dioxide is one of the main culprits for greenhouse gases and the reduction of emissions of this toxic substance has become has become very important. Greenhouse gases are released into the atmosphere by burning fossil fuels. Accelerated industrial activity in many developed and developing countries has dramatically increased the levels of these emissions in the air. Mass deforestation has also cut the globe’s ability to absorb these gases. The dilemma is how to find ways that permit the economic growth without jeopardising the environment. Canada along with other 37 countries has ratified the 1997 Kyoto protocol according to which the emissions of greenhouse gases were supposed to be reduced significantly by year 2012. It has adopted the policy of private-enterprise solutions to the global warming problem. More commitments were made during the Paris Agreement on climate change.

As the date of reducing significantly the emissions of greenhouse gases was approaching, many wonder whether governments would ever consider the adoption of some measures to reduce the accelerated deterioration of the atmosphere. It was feared that the uncontrolled industrial activity may lead to a situation where further economic development would be impossible. Greenhouse gases believe to cause warming of the Earth’s climate, leading to erratic and destructive weather, melting polar caps and drought in already warm regions. The ecological equilibrium is in jeopardy. From a policy perspective the radical plan hammered out by politicians in Kyoto was the first concrete initiative to fix targets for a significant reduction of greenhouse gases. Although the timetable set for gases emissions reductions were considered by some too long and by others too short, the fact of the matter was that the countries which ratified the Kyoto protocol and the Paris Agreement on climate change, have not taken as yet any concrete and significant measures to the application of the agreement. Plausible questions arise as to the seriousness of politicians and policy makers to tackle this problem.

Canada is a case in point. It has pledged, under the Kyoto agreement, to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 6 per cent from 1990 levels by 2012. It has opted to use a market approach where every ton of carbon dioxide that is removed from the atmosphere or prevented from being emitted is bought and sold on an exchange like the one that already exists in the U.S. for sulphur dioxide emissions – a market that is now worth an estimated $500-million (U.S.) in trade a year. Under such a regime overpolluters could offset their reduction obligations with credits. Demand and supply for credits would provide the appropriate incentives for reducing emissions. Actually, prices, as determined in the auction exchange market, would provide the appropriate signals for emissions reduction. A strong demand for market credits would push up the price of the units and create a powerful incentive for others to create more credits by devising innovative means of cutting emissions. Such an environmental regulation provides incentives for technological change and better environment.

Societal sustainability

8.0        Food production for Global Civilization
9.0        Sound solutions to help manage and sustain Earth
10.0        A global sustainable development
11.0        Portal of sustainable development
12.0        A democratically planned global economy - Societal Sustainability
13.0        Long term well-being as a solution to world sustainable development

8.0 Food production for Global Civilization

In year 2024, Global Civilization has formed a global ministry dealing only about agriculture and the protection of our soils. All nations will be part of the ministry. We have to design systems of food production that meet our own needs, and also leave room for these other lifeforms we want to take along with us. Western agriculture is designed in the end to maximize profit. As a primordial human right, the prime concern of the human species is to feed people. Therefore we have to do things differently. We will have to produce less livestock as we effectively double the population we need to feed: ourselves, plus the livestock that is supposed to be feeding us. We also have to apportion the land surface of the whole world more efficiently, using some for highhly intensive food production (which makes use of less land), some for extensive agriculture (combining food production with wildlife conservation) and designing some specifically as wilderness areas with global corridors between them.

9.0 Sound solutions to help manage and sustain Earth

In year 2024, Global Civilization has given back responsibility to every global citizen on Earth. Everyone shares responsibility for the present and future well-being of life within Global Civilization. We will work together in working out sound solutions to local and global problems. It would be wrong and dishonest to blame it all on the leader of a country. Most problems in the world must find solutions at the local and global community levels (and not assume that the leader alone is responsible and will handle it). There is a wisdom in the ways of very humble people that needs to be utilized. Every humble person deserves to have ideas respected, and encouraged to develop his or her own life for the better. Sound solutions to help manage and sustain Earth will very likely be found this way. Everyone can help assess the needs of the planet and propose sound solutions for its proper management, present and future. Everyone can think of better ideas to sustain all life on Earth and realize these ideas by conducting positive and constructive actions. 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; that is the grassroots process. Global Civilization can help people realized their actions by coordinating efforts efficiently together.

10.0 A global sustainable development

In year 2024, Global Civilization believes all citizens have the right to share the wealth in the world. Foreign investment and the trade agreement must protect and improve social and environmental rights, not just the economy. A global sustainable development would mean finding a sound balance among the interactions designed to create a healthy economic growth, preserve environmental quality, make a wise use of our resources, and enhance social benefits. Free trade cannot proceed at the expense of the environment, labour rights, human rights and the sovereignty of a nation. Free trade will lead to an increase in poverty by giving investor rights priority over government decision-making. Employers will be looking for more concessions from workers. Small businesses will find it more difficult to grow and compete against large corporations.

For the first time in human history, and the first time this millennium, humanity has proposed a benchmark:

*     formation of global ministries in all important aspects of our lives
*     the Scale of Global Rights as a replacement to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
*     an evolved Democracy based on the Scale of Global Rights and Global Parliament's Constitution
*     a central organization for Earth management, the restoration of the planet and Earth governance: Global Civilization Assessment Centre (GCAC)
*     the Earth Court of Justice 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
*     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 the Global Parliament, 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, 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 of the abolishment of the debt of the poor or developing nations as it is really a form of global tax to be paid annually by the rich or industrialized nations to the developing nations
*     establishing freshwater and clean air as primordial human rights

11.0 Portal of sustainable development

In year 2024, it is now necessary to create the Global Centre for Strategy of Global Sustainability. The Centre is the portal for the global sustainable development of all people. Global Civilization has developed the Centre to lay the foundation of several objectives:

building a comprehensive vision for the future of humanity;

help poverty eradication;

change consumption and production patterns;

deal with the problems of climate chnage;

take care of protecting the global life-support systems; and

collaborate with global communities to save Earth ecosystems.

In year 2024, Global Civilization has built up a widely and freely accessible world information network. This network provides monitoring, forecasting and early warning and thus help to implement the principles of sustainable development(SD). This initiative aims to take up, on a global scale, the building of the information basis for SD-policy and SD-economy. A priority should be given to the process of creation of a commonly accessible, world-wide system of:

-     comprehensive monitoring;
-     far-sighted forecasting and
-     measurable evaluation

Such a SD-information system was globally-integrated and territorially distributed. In order to bring about the creation of such an information system, it was essential to carry out a large-scale operation, requiring appropriate developments in science, technology and society at large. Due to the lack of such an information foundation for the global and local governance, a covert or overt struggle for access to scarce and shrinking natural resources will inevitably grow and accelerate the crisis. This crisis, if unchecked, will lead to a global catastrophe. The deficit of these resources should, and, we believe can, be eliminated through international cooperation, which should replace the existing competition. That, however, requires not only political will, but also the deepening of a comprehensive and easily accessible knowledge about the consequences of human actions and inactions.

12.0 A democratically planned global economy - Societal Sustainability

In year 2024, Global Civilization promotes a democratically planned global economy - Societal Sustainability - with built-in mechanisms for optimum input and oversight guaranteed to all nations.

In year 2024, Global Civilization cooperates to manage sustainably energy and resources on a worldwide scale and provides the driving force for achieving and sustaining a planned global economy democratically embarked upon by all member-states of Global Parliament. Global Civilization offers a rational, effective response to impending trade wars and other instances of human despair arising from the contradiction between free trade practices and national job protectionism. Launching a democratically planned global economy at the earliest practicable time will bypass the thirty-year time frame projected for equalizing labor costs between underdeveloped national economies and those of the more developed national economies - while reversing the deterioration of social and environmental conditions traceable to an economic system increasingly antithetical to global unity and human aspirations.

13.0 Long term well-being as a solution to world sustainable development

In year 2024, solutions to world problems were found by setting our sights on long term well-being. That is, by aiming to involve everyone who needs sustenance in a system that:

*     manages necessary materials in continuous cycles,
*    uses renewable energy, and
*     eliminates harmful waste.

It is a question of direction.

Protection of the global life-support systems and ecosystems of our planet.

There are many related aspects of the global life-support systems:

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

In year 2024, Global Civilization succeeded in evaluating options and strategies for adapting to climate change as it occurs, and in identifying human activities that are even now maladapted to climate and protect Earth ecosystems and the global life-support systems.

Losses of biomass through deforestation and the cutting down of tropical forests put our supply of oxygen (O2) gas at risk. The Earth's forests did not use to play a dominant role in maintaining O2 reserves because they consume just as much of this gas as they produce. Today forests are being destroy at an astronomical rate. No O2 is created after a forest is put down, and more CO₂ is produced in the process. In the tropics, ants, termites, bacteria, and fungi eat nearly the entire photosynthetic O2 product. Only a tiny fraction of the organic matter they produce accumulates in swamps and soils or is carried down the rivers for burial on the sea floor. The O2 content of our atmosphere is slowly declining. The content of the atmosphere decreased at an average annual rate of 2 parts per million. The atmosphere contains 210,000 parts per million. Combustion of fossil fuels destroys O2. For each 100 atoms of fossil-fuel carbon burned, about 140 molecules of O2 are consumed.

In year 2024, scientists have become more involved in assessing the viability of response options aimed at storing excess carbon in terrestrial or ocean systems. Land use changes from agricultural to forest ecosystems can help to remove carbon from the atmosphere at rates of 2 to 20 tonnes of carbon per hectare per year for periods of 50 years or more, until a new ecosystem equilibrium is reached. Similarly, soil conservation practices can help build up carbon reservoirs in forest and agricultural soils. Proposals to extract CO₂ from smoke stacks and dispose of it in liquid form in underground reservoirs or deep oceans also need careful evaluation in terms of long-term feedbacks, effectiveness and environmental acceptability. However, much remains to be learned about the biological and physical processes by which terrestial and ocean systems can act as sinks and permanent reservoirs for carbon.

In year 2024, Global Civilization deals with the impacts of human activities. There are two fundamental types of response to the risks of climate change:

1. reducing the rate and magnitudes of change through mitigating the causes, and
2. reducing the harmful consequences through anticipatory adaptation.

Mitigating the causes of global warming implies limiting the rates and magnitudes of increase in atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases, either by reducing emissions or by increasing sinks for atmospheric CO₂. Reducing the harmful consequences can be achieved by co-operating together with the global ministries on climate change and emergencies. Global Civilization has created several global ministries to help humanity be prepared to fight the harmful consequences of a global warming through anticipatory adaptation. The global ministries on climate change and emergencies are now operating. The ministries have developed:

1. policy response to the consequences of the global warming;
2. strategies to adapt to the consequences of the unavoidable climate change;
3. an action plan to protect the global life-support systems; and
4. practical solutions to help global citizens through the difficult time we are all experiencing.

Global Civilization also proposes that all nations of the world promote the Scale of Global Rights and the criteria to obtain Global Civilization citizenship. Every global citizen lives a life with the higher values described in the Scale and the criteria. Global citizens are good members of Global Civilization. Most global problems, including global warming and world overpopulation, can be managed through acceptance of the Scale and the criteria.

We need to improve on our ability to:

*       predict future anthropogenic emissions of greenhouse gases. While demographic, technological and economic factors are in many respects inherently speculative, better observations and understanding of the processes by which human activities directly or indirectly contribute to emissions are clearly required. These in particular include emissions from deforestation and agricultural activities;
*       obtain more data on the effect of human emissions on atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gases. Not only do we need to reduce the uncertainties about past and current sinks for emitted greenhouse gases, but we need to better understand and quantify the long term feedbacks such as CO₂ fertilization and physical and biological response to climate change if we expect to improve our confidence in projections of future concentrations.
*       measure direct and indirect effects of radiative forcing of greenhouse gases and aerosols.
*       measure climate sensitivity to changes in radiative forcing.
*       measure the response to climate change of biological and physical processes with the terrestrial and ocean systems
*       obtain an early detection of the signal of human interference with the climate system against the change caused by natural forces or internal system noise is important in fostering timely and responsible coping actions.
*       develop actions to limit emissions of greenhouse gases and prepare to adapt to climate change. However, stabilizing greenhouse gas emissions will not stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations and climate but only slow down the rates of change.
*       live with the facts that climate change is unavoidable, atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations are already signficantly higher than pre-industrial levels, and that aggressive efforts to reduce their anthropogenic emission sources would only slow down the growth in their concentrations, not stop it. Therefore, policy response to this issue must also include strategies to adapt to the consequences of unavoidable climate change.

Comprehensive population policies are an essential element in a global development strategy that combines access to reproductive health services, to education and economic opportunities, to improved energy and natural resource technologies, and to healthyer models of consumption and the "good life."

Policies to decrease world population:

    delay reproduction until later in life
Delaying reproduction is important in influencing population growth rates. Over a period of 60 years, if people delay reproduction until they are 30 years old, you would have only two generations, while if you do not delay reproduction you would have three generations (one generation every 20 years).
    spread your children farther apart

    to have fewer children overall

    government commitment to decreasing population growth
Create policies that help decreasing the number of children being born. Policies such as income tax deductions for dependent children and maternity and paternity leaves are essentially pronatalist and should be eliminated.
    programs that are locally designed and that include information on family planning and access to contraceptives

    educational programs that emphasize the connection between family planning and social good

    Give women more life choices. The low social and economic status of women and girls sets the stage for poor reproductive health

    Invest in reproductive health care

    Encourage delays in the onset of sexual activity and first births

    Help couples prevent and manage unwanted childbearing

    Ensure universal access to maternal health care

    Support new reproductive health technologies

    Increase efforts to address the HIV pandemic

    Involve communities in evaluating and implementing programs

    Develop partnerships with the private sector, policymakers and aid donors to broaden support for reproductive health

    Measure Progress

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In year 2024, Global Civilization has proposed 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. Governments should encourage enterprises to use the criteria both by legal and moral means. At first, the criteria should be adopted in key areas such as procurement, facilities management, investment management, and human resources. Corporations want to be seen as good corporate leaders and have a stronger form of accountability. Business and trade will prosper after stronger common bonds and values have been established. Adopting the criteria will have a beneficial impact on future returns, and share price performance.

Obtaining one ECO will help businesses to be part of the solution to the challenges of globalisation. In this way, the private sector in partnership with the civil society can help realize a vision: allowing a global equitable and peaceful development and a more stable and inclusive global economy.

The Global Community Assessment Centre (GCAC)

will guide you on how to better integrate criteria issues in your business. In the context of a healthy world sustainable development, companies will perform better and increase shareholder value by properly managing risks, anticipating regulatory action or accessing new markets. Tangible results of adopting the criteria include a better company reflected in its reputation and quality of brands.

Obtaining one ECO is a tremendous asset to business owners, self-regulatory organizations, investors, brokers, regulators, stock exchanges, accountants, analysts, financial advisers, asset managers, and consultants. It will contribute to strengthen investment markets.

In year 2024, the quality of Earth governance is reflected in each local community worldwide. Global Civilization communicates leadership by creating a global civil ethic within our ways of life. Global Parliament's Constitution 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

Governance of the Earth makes the rule of arbitrary power--economic (WTO, FTAA, EU), political, or military (NATO)-- subjected to the rule of law within the global civil society, Global Civilization. Justice is for everyone and is everywhere, a universal constant. In year 2024, Justice is without borders.

In year 2024, Global Civilization has no intention of changing the status and privileges of state governments. In fact, state governments become primary members of Global Parliament. Global governance can only be effective within the framework of the criteria of the Global Community citizenship.

In year 2024, Global Civilization was built from a grassroots process with a vision for humanity that is challenging every person on Earth as well as nation governments, and has a vision of the people working together building a new civilization including a healthy and rewarding future for the next generations. Global cooperation brings people together for a common future for the good of all.

In year 2024, 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.

Earth governance is about the rights of states to self-determination in the global context of Global Parliament rather than the traditional context of a world of separate states.

Although Global Civilization ensures state governments that it will obey the principle of non-intervention in domestic affairs, it will also stand for the rights and interests of the people within individual states in which the security of people is extensively endangered. A global consensus to that effect will be agreed upon by all nation 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.

As a business you may:

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

* environmental performance
* product safety
* business practices
* help small business in the least developed countries
* commitment to the community
* abolition of child labour
* eliminate discrimination in respect of employment and occupation
* employee relations and diversity
* effective recognition of the right to collective bargaining
* corporate governance
* share performance
* global corporate responsibility
* against corruption in all its forms, including extortion and bribery
* health, safety and security
* provided help to combat diseases such as AIDS
* uphold the freedom of association
* audits and inspections
* emergency preparedness
* corporate global ethical values
* ensured decent working conditions
* implemented no-bribe policies
* standards of honesty, integrity and ethical behaviour
* elimination of all forms of forced and compulsory labour
* in line with the Scale of Global Rights and Global Parliament's Constitution
h)     support a balance and responsible approach that promotes action on the issue of climate change as well as all other issues related to the global life-support systems:

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

Now is time to reach a higher level of protection to life on Earth. We all need this for the survival of our species. We can help you integrate and balance global life-support systems protection, global community participation, and economic decisions into your operations and products.

We want to help you be an active corporate member of Global Civilization.

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

A Certified Corporate Global Civilization 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 the Global Community Citizenship

and following an assessment of your business. The process shown here is now standardized to all applicants. You are then asked to operate your business as per the values of the citizenship.

GCAC will be conducting the assessment of your business. GCAC is the assessment centre of the Global Civilization. It was created to give individuals, businesses or other organizations help and advice about negative events happening in their communities which cause concern to people, resources, industry or the environment. GCAC is also the Centre of assessment of local and global indicators about the four major quality systems: Environment, People, Economic Development and the Availability of Resources. The assessment of these indicators will result in giving Global Civilization a sense of direction as to ensure a sound future for Earth.

In year 2024, in order to do this GCAC will continue to amass a body of scientific information based on formal assessments such as those on Biodiversity, Climate Change, Human Development Report, World Development Report, struggle for Global Rights, life species Conservation, Health, Economic Analyses, Commission on Sustainable Development, etc., which have bridged the distance between incomplete science and contentious policy. Local and global indicators developed by Global Civilization will also be used as basic scientific information.

Furthermore, no one really understands what assessment processes have been most effective in the past, or why others have failed. GCAC’s goal is to explore how assessment of local and global indicators can better link scientific understanding with the progressive implementation of effective policy solutions to global changes. Achieving this integration is fundamental. Global Civilization needs this annual assessment to effectively manage global changes.

GCAC conducts an annual assessment of the 'Global Civilization Overall Picture'

which describes the situation in all nations of the world. The world was divided into five different regions: North America, Latin America & the Caribbean, Africa, Europe, and Asia & Oceania. Each assessment has a description of what is happening in the different regions. They are actual facts concerning issues we have discussed during previous global dialogues.

Issues between now and the coming Global Dialogue in 2018 are also included in this project. Our work is too create a plausible scenario(s) of what the world could be between now and 'a not-so-distant-future'. This project will help humanity understand itself better.

Certainly our work is sound. We have already produced very valuable and original tools to help humanity: the Vision of Earth in Year 2024,

the Scale of Global Rights and Global Parliament's Constitution, the Earth Court of Justice,

global ministries, and we stood for the values we promoted no matter how difficult was the opponent. Now is time to expand our work for the good of all humanity.

Global Civilization believes all citizens have the right to share the wealth in the world. Foreign investment and the trade agreement must protect and improve social and environmental rights, not just the economy. A global sustainable development would mean finding a sound balance among the interactions designed to create a healthy economic growth, preserve environmental quality, make a wise use of our resources, and enhance social benefits. Free trade cannot proceed at the expense of the environment, labour rights, human rights and the sovereignty of a nation. Free trade will lead to an increase in poverty by giving investor rights priority over government decision-making. Employers will be looking for more concessions from workers. Small businesses will find it more difficult to grow and compete against large corporations.

In year 2024, for the first time in human history, and the first time this millennium, humanity has proposed a benchmark:

*     formation of global ministries in all important aspects of our lives
*     the Scale of Global Rights as a replacement to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
*     Statement of Rights and Responsibilities of a person belonging to 'a global community' and to 'Global Civilization'
*     an evolved Democracy based on the Scale of Global Rights and Global Parliament's Constitution
*     a central organization for Earth management, the restoration of the planet and Earth governance: the Global Community Assessment Centre (GCAC)

*     the Earth Court of Justice to deal with all aspects of governance and management of the Earth
*     a new impetus given to the 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, World Trade Organization, World Bank, IMF, E.U., 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 Parliament
*     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, 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 of the abolishment of the debt of the poor or developing nations as it is really a form of global tax to be paid annually by the rich or industrialized nations to the developing nations

*     establishing freshwater and clean air as primordial human rights

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

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 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 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.

Ever since 1985, Global Civilization has developed and defined sustainable development and a mean of measuring it. Now we want the corporate world as well as everyone else, all consumers, to integrate and balance global life-support systems protection, global community participation, and economic decisions into your operations and products, and into your way of life and of doing things.

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is a federal corporation of Canada. The corporation has sponsored the research and development of the global concepts of Global Civilization. It has sponsored all global dialogues since 1985.

These global dialogues have resulted in the establishment of the criteria of the Global Community Citizenship and of the Certified Corporate Global Civilization Citizenship.

Global Community WebNet Ltd. was the first corporation on Earth to qualify and obtain one ECO, the Certified Corporate Global Civilization Citizenship.