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Theme for this month January 2021:
Global Civilizational State: the application of the Scale of Global Rights to the most important global issues threatening humanity's survival worldwide.
- Global Issue 5: sections 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 affected: Super rich Peoples and corporations became corrupted, greedy, and no longer in line with humanity's survival on the planet.
Short explanation of global issue 5.
Text of the speech in the Video about global issue 5 to be published in February Newsletter 2021.
Full explanation concerning all nine (9) global issues.
We need a basic clarification on the concept of "land ownership", starting with the principle that the land and natural resources of the planet are a common heritage and belong equally as a birthright to everyone. Products and services created by individuals are properly viewed as private property. Products and services created by groups of individuals are properly viewed as collective property. However, we have reached the deplorable circumstance where in large measure a very powerful few are in possession of the Earth's resources, the land and all its riches, and all the franchises and other privileges that yield a return. These monopolistic positions are kept by a handful of men who are maintained virtually without taxation. In today's affairs a very powerful few are in possession of the land and the Earth's resources. These few people operate practically without taxation. Is that what we want as a global democracy? Who should own the Earth? Who has sovereignty over our planet? Soveveignty is the status of a person or group of persons having supreme and independent political authority. The concept of sovereignty is related to the concept of power: power over a territory, land and water, oil and minerals, as well as life on Earth.
The United Nations (UN) cannot have normal attributes of sovereignty, which has been defined around a territory and population. Global Community has in fact been defined around a given territory, that territory being the planet as a whole, as well as a specific population, which is Global Community. The issue here is not that of populations and boundary lines, but of the demarcation of power and control over the Earth that is the foremost formal attribute of sovereignty. Therefore, Global Community sovereignty has sovereignty over the Earth. To speak of enforceable global law is to speak of world power. Global Parliament has the power to make the laws of the land and to make the rules for the territory of the Earth. Global Law has been and continue to be researched and developed for this purpose. Today our democracy is not based on equal rights to the Earth and its natural resources. Conservation, restoration, and protection of the Earth resources is about asking ourselves the question of "Who owns the Earth"? The large gap between rich and poor is conected to ownership and control of the planet's land and of all other Earth natural resources. This causes a fundamental threat to democracy. What has become of democracy? What has become " we the people"? We need to take a giant step forward to a new form of democracy. We, Global Community, must now direct the wealth of the world towards the building of local-to-global economic democracies in order to meet the needs for food, shelter, universal healthcare, education, and employment for all. Global Community has proposed a new democratic mandate recognizing that the land, the air, oil and natural gas, minerals, all other natural resources rightly belong to Global Community. The Earth is our birthright and our common heritage. What we make from our mental and physical labor can rightfully be held as individual property but the profit of the Earth should be shared by all life. The unjust and inequitable ownership of the land and of all other natural resources has caused the great majority of local-to-global conflicts and wars. Global Community should organize expert groups and begin the necessary intergovernmental negotiations towards establishing alternative revenue sources, which could include fees for the commercial use of the oceans, fees for airplane use of the skies, fees for use of the electromagnetic spectrum, fees levied on foreign exchange transactions, and a tax on carbon content of fuels. Territorial conflict has for millennium been the basis of war and mass killing of others. Throughout the ages wars been fought over land, and other Earth natural resources. We have seen oil conflicts in the Persian Gulf, and the Caspian Sea Basin. We have seen water conflicts in the Nile Basin, the Jordan, and Indus River Basins. We have seen wars being fought over minerals and timber in Angola, Sierra Leone, Liberia, the Congo, New Guinea, and Borneo. We have seen conflicts over valuable gems, minerals and timber in Brazil, Angola, Cambodia, Columbia, Congo, Liberia, the Philippines, and Indonesia.
The view from space shows us a global landscape in which competition over resources is the governing principle behind the use of military power. Truly, resources have become the new political boundaries. Each day taxpayers hand over astronomical amounts of money to build weapons of mass destruction, fuel dangerous and polluting technologies, and subsidize giant corporations which concentrate the wealth and power of the world in the hands of an elite few. There is a way to share the Earth and Global Economic Model proposed by Global Civilization State is truly the best response to the world. Whoever owns the land and all other natural resources exerts power over those who are landless and no resources. Global Community proposes to extend democratic principles to include the ownership and control of the Earth. Global Economic Model was created for all the people on the planet. The model makes sure that the rights of all people and the rights of the planet are one and the same. Global Economic Model stipulates as well that we, as human beings, are trustees and caretakers of all other life forms on Earth. Global Economic Model is global, as people are freed to move beyond borders and boundaries and claim the whole Earth as their birthplace.
Land here, by definition, covers all naturally occurring resources like surface land, minerals deposits (gold, oil etc), water, electromagnetic spectrum, the trees, fish in the seas and rivers. It is unjust to treat land as private property. Land is not a product of labor. Everyone should therefore be given equal access to natural resources. Global Economic Model proposes to make private property the product of labor. Common property is all what Nature offers. Global Economic Model policy removes taxes from wages and increases taxes and user fees on common property. The model eliminates subsidies that are environmentally or socially harmful, and inequitable. Every national government must show a commitment to making available enough land in the context of sustainable land-use policies. Governments at all levels should remove all possible obstacles that may hamper equitable access to land and ensure that equal rights of women and men related to land and property are protected under the law. When there are noone wanting the land then Global Community will have people from other countries in need of land to settle with their families.
Truly, we are on the threshold of a global change, a social evolution of human values, the event of Global Civilizational State, and we need to proceed with the non-violent approach. We need to build an economic democracy based firmly on the basic principle that the Earth belongs equally to everyone as a birthright. The Earth is for all people to labor and live on and should never be the possession of any individual, corporation, or uncaring government, any more than the air or water, or any other Earth natural resources. An individual, or a business should have no more than is needed for a healthy living. Global Economic model is based on respect and value all Life on Earth. It recognizes that we as human beings are trustees and caretakers of the many life forms that dwell here with us. A global economic model extends the democratic mandate to solve the land problem by affirming the equal right of all people to the Earth. It will have a balanced and just relationship of citizenry to government with enlightened public finance policy based on land and land rent for the people. Money will be issued and circulated as a service for the people as a whole rather than used as a mechanism for the exploitation of the many by the few. Global Economic model is global, as people are freed to move beyond borders and boundaries and claim the whole Earth as their birthplace. It is highly decentralized as well, with people living and producing for their basic human needs within the constraints and parameters of local ecological systems.
A global economic model is about a world that works for everyone, with plenty of time to expand our minds and elevate our spirits. We must grasp the injustice at the core of our present economic system. We need to understand how far we have strayed from reality, and how we have been led into illusionary games of finance. Our treatment of the Earth as a market commodity, just like a car or television, is the basic flaw in our economic ground rules. When land became a 'commodity' and lost its status as provider and sustainer of life, Western civilization began its history of subjugation and exploitation of the Earth and Earth based cultures. A global economic model can achieve fairness by giving the equal right of all people to the land and to all other natural resources, and the right of the individual to the products of labor.
A condition of "ownership" of any particular landsite or natural resource is payment of the fee back to the community as a whole. This fee is the proper source of public finance for the needs of the Community. On the global level the Law of the Seas Covenant is an example of a fee collected basis for public needs as it means that ocean resources are the common heritage of all and a proper source of funding for global institutions. In order to democratize land rights, we can make land available to individuals and groups who wish to live in ecologically sustainable villages and farms. Community land trusts can hold title to such lands. The buildings and improvements can be privately owned. This process is a strong incentive for the creation of employment. The planet and all its resources of land, water, forests, minerals, the atmosphere, electro-magnetic frequencies, and even satellite orbits belong to Global Community. Global Economic Model makes sure that the profits of the Earth will benefit the people and all life, and secure an age of peace and fairness for all.
Properly managed small farms along with ecological villages can produce a diverse range of food, fiber, livestock, and energy products for local markets. Bio methods of farming depending on renewable energy sources can yield both social and environmental stability. Tax policies that remove taxes on labor and productive capital will be the sustainable pillar that makes Global Economic model works for all. This Global Movement for land value taxation and natural resource rent for revenue can provide the basis for worldwide economic democracy. Freedom to live or work in any part of the globe would also further equality of entitlement to the planet, and provide a basis for the resolution of resource wars and territorial conflicts. There would be no more private profit as unearned income from Earth natural resources. Instead, transparent and accountable resource agencies would collect resource rents and distribute those funds in public services or as direct citizen dividends. With fundamental democracy in rights to the Earth firmly established through legal means and mandates, basic needs would be secured for all and the militarized national security state and its bloated budgets could wither away.
Global Parliament shall enact legislation as laid down in the Global Parliament Constitution
Why the extinction crisis is not just about the environment, but Social Justice. An anti-capitalist movement against extinction must be framed in terms of a refusal to turn land, people, flora, and fauna into commodities. The genomic information of plants, animals, and human beings is the common wealth of our planet, and all efforts to make use of this environmental commons must be framed around principles of equality, solidarity, and environmental and climate justice.
The extinction crisis needs to be seen as a key element in contemporary struggles against accumulation by dispossession. This crisis, in other words, ought to be a key issue in the fight for climate justice. If techno-fixes such as deextinction facilitate new rounds of biocapitalist accumulation. We must reject capitalist biopiracy and imperialist enclosure of the global commons, particularly when they cloak themselves in arguments about preserving biodiversity. Most of all, an anti-capitalist conservation movement must challenge the privatization of the genome as a form of intellectual property, to be turned into an organic factory for the benefit of global elites. Synthetic biology should be regulated. The genomic information of plants, animals, and human beings is the common wealth of the planet, and all efforts to make use of this environmental commons must be framed around principles of equality, solidarity, and environmental and climate justice. What would be the shape and fundamental goals of an expansive anti-capitalist movement against extinction and for environmental justice? It would have to commence with open recognition by the developed nations of the long history of ecocide. Such an admission would lead to a consequent recognition of the biodiversity debt owed by the wealthy nations of the global North to the South. Building on the demands articulated by the climate justice movement, the anti-capitalist conservation movement must demand the repayment of this biodiversity debt. How would this repayment take place? The climate justice movement’s call for a universal guaranteed income for inhabitants of nations who are owed climate debt should serve as a model here. Why not begin a model initiative for such a carbon and biodiversity-based guaranteed income program in the planet’s biodiversity hotspots? Of the twenty five terrestrial biodiversity hotspots, fifteen are covered primarily by tropical rainforests, and consequently are also key sites for the absorption of carbon pollution. These threatened ecosystems include the moist tropical woodlands of Brazil’s Atlantic coast, southern Mexico with Central America, the tropical Andes, the Greater Antilles, West Africa, Madagascar, the Western Ghats of India, Indo-Burma, Indonesia, the Philippines, and New Caledonia. They make up only 1.4% of the Earth’s surface, and yet, these regions are the exclusive homes of 44% of the world’s plant species and more than a third of all species of birds, mammals, reptiles, and amphibians. All of these areas are under heavy assault from the forces of enclosure and ecocide. A universal guaranteed income for the inhabitants of these hotspots would create a genuine counterweight to the attractions of poaching, and would entitle the indigenous and forest-dwelling peoples who make these zones of rich biodiversity their homes with the economic and political power to push their governments to implement significant conservation measures.
The quality of Earth governance is reflected in each local community worldwide. Global Community will show leadership by creating
a global civil ethic within our ways of life. Global Constituion describes all values needed for good global governance:
mutual respect, tolerance, respect for life, justice for all everywhere, integrity, and caring. The Scale of global Rights
has become an inner truth and the benchmark of the millennium in how everyone sees all values. The Scale encompasses the right of all people to:
Global Justice and Global Law.. Chapter 12, on the Exercise of Global Parliament competence, and more specifically, Chapter 12.1, on Common provisions, describe the process by which Global Law was enacted. Seeing the world today, Global Community claims that each of us depends on the well-being of the whole, and so global citizens have respect for the community of living beings, people and all other lifeforms, and plants, and for the preservation of Earth, air, water and soil. And that explains why the protection of the global life-support systems 
is the most important right on the Scale of Global Rights. Without this right there would be no life on our planet.
* the preservation of ethnicity
* equitable treatment, including gender equity
* security
* protection against corruption and the military
* earn a fair living, have shelter and provide for their own welfare and that of their family
* peace and stability
* universal value systems
* participation in governance at all levels
* access the Earth Court of Justice for redress of gross injustices
* equal access to information
An investigation was conducted to found
whether or not transnational corporations (TNCs) and other companies are taking meaningful steps to improve their social and
environmental record. Considerable attention is focused on the effectiveness of "voluntary
initiatives" such as codes of conduct, social and environmental reporting, certification, labelling, corporate social investment and
improvements in environmental management systems.
1. Short term solution
2. Long term solution
Earth is our most precious and the one and only place we can live for now. Earth is our home. This way Earth management will become a spiritual and a natural process whereby each person is responsible and accountable for its management the best they can. Peace in the world and Earth management have for too long been in the hands of and affected by government and business leaders, in the hands of a few people on the planet, as opposed to being in the hands of all of us (over 7 billion people on Earth) working together to keep our planet healthy. We cannot allow ourselves to let governments and other organizations take away our responsibility for managing Earth. It would be like giving the key of our planet to people who would be looking after their own self-interests and not bother with what is truly important. We are the keepers of the Earth, and we want to govern and manage sustainably our planet.
Global Community offers a new global order with a vision of Hope and Love away from despair and social chaos. This new global order will be better, safer, and more realistic after replacing the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the Scale of Global Rights 
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Global Community is for all life on Earth and is the 21st century framework for Earth governance.
What Global Community stands for 
Politics and Justice without borders: what we stand for 
Constitution Short Version
Other summaries of the Global Communty work
Global Community ethics for a business are about how we treat others and a commitment to respect every person humanely and with dignity. For this process to work, global citizens learn to forgive, be patient and compassionate, promote acceptance, open theirs hearts to one another, and practice a culture of solidarity and cooperation. Let go narrow differences between us all for the greater good of humanity and future generations.
Wherever there are people there will be conflicts, and ethics can help to resolve conflicts. Global Community proposes that such conflicts be resolved without violence and within a framework of justice. People must commit themselves to the most nonviolent, peaceful solutions possible. This is the pathway to global peace 
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The ethic proposed here provides no direct solution for all the extensive problems of humanity. The ethic is giving humanity the moral foundation for a better individual and community. Global Community offers a new global order with a vision of Hope and Love away from despair and social chaos.
Global Community ethics offer fundamental moral behaviors and irrevocable standards.
You need not be religious to make this vision yours. This vision is for all human beings regardless of their social origin, language, culture, sex, skin color or religion.
Global Community vision creates new hopes, standards, ideals and goals for everyone to embrace freely, and live a life without fear.
Global Community faith is about realizing this new global order will be better, safer, and more realistic after replacing the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights by the Scale of Global Rights .
To determine rights requires an understanding of needs and reponsibilities and their importance. The Scale shows social values in order of importance and so will help us understand clearly the rights of a community and its citizens. So now Global Community ethics includes a process based on the Scale of Global Rights. Global citizens have a binding responsibility for the welfare of all humanity and care for all life on Earth. Global Community ethical grounds are practical, real, and applicable for all women and men of good will, religious and non-religious.
Global rights.
Truly, the world is on the threshold of a global revolution, and needs to
proceed with the non-violent approach. Global Community needs to build an economic democracy
based firmly on the basic principle that the Earth belongs equally to
everyone as a birthright. The Earth is for all people to labor and live
on and should never be the possession of any individual, corporation,
or uncaring government, any more than the air or water, or any other
Earth natural resources. An individual, or a business should have
no more than is needed for a healthy living. Today, the impacts of our democracy are destroying the Earth global life-support systems.
To live in a world at peace and have conditions of basic justice and fairness in human interactions,
our democratic values must be based on the principle of equal rights to the Earth.
Territorial conflict has for millennium been the basis of war and mass killing of others.
Throughout the ages wars have been fought over land, and other Earth natural resources.
We have seen oil conflicts in the Persian Gulf, and the Caspian Sea Basin.
We have seen water conflicts in the Nile Basin, the Jordan, and Indus River Basins.
We have seen wars being fought over minerals and timber in Brazil, Angola, Cambodia, Columbia, Congo, Liberia, the Philippines, and Indonesia.
The view from space shows us a global landscape in which competition over global resources is the governing principle behind the use of military power.
Truly, resources have become the new political boundaries.
When people know they own the resources in their communities then people can start directing the wealth of their resources towards
the building of local-to-global economic democracies in order to meet the needs for food, shelter, universal healthcare, education, and employment for all in their community.
Global rights will help here. Global rights allow people to do what they need to do in order to be sustainable. People and communities are protected by global rights.
The universality of global rights recognizes the right of all individuals
to participate in the cultural life of their community and of other country,
to receive education and training, and to be informed. Global
Community is aware that traditional customs and standards
could burden the sustainability of all life on Earth. They could burden
Earth society or any society forever, and holds individuals in a straitjacket.
We cannot accept that. No one can! There are choices to be made, and you
must make them. Cultures can develop and can go on developing. Even religious
beliefs may evolve. We are living now, and we are able to
create these changes. At any time
or in any given place, men, women and children use their culture to invent
new ways of making global rights a living reality. Diversity enriches us
if it respects the dignity of each individual, and if it takes account
of global rights as a whole.
Global justice.
Artwork by Germain Dufour
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They are used because together they form a neat
geometric expression about a complicated intellectual concept. They represent interactions.
These interactions occur between the systems and within each individual system.
Here same-size circles represent mathematical local/global indicators that have been
developed for assessing and measuring sustainable development within four important realities in local/global life.
The scale used within the mathematical model reflects the importance of each quality system in ensuring a sound future for Earth.
People need a healthy environment and resources for family, community, government, business and industry.
Businesses cannot thrive without people and resources.
Earth resources need to be managed wisely so they last longer and be of good use for all of us and the next generations. Let us not waste.
Let us protect all life.
Economic stability depends on people, resources, and good businesses and trade.
The Global Economic Model
was developed to bring stability. Global Community will help businesses to be part of the
solution to the challenges of globalisation. In this way, the
private sector in partnership with civil society can help realize
a vision: allowing a global equitable and peaceful development
and a more stable and inclusive global economy.
And all of the above cannot exist without a healthy environment.
The four interacting circles are a simplistic expression of our need for one another, our
interactions, our symbiotical relationships, and the thoughtless damage we can cause if not careful. We are worlds within worlds orbiting in and through each other’s space.
This interaction can be planned and executed in a caring, considerate manner so that all may exist and not destroy the other.
The four interacting circles also give us an indication of how difficult it may be to apply Global Justice for all life on the planet, and how
difficult it is to include the needs of the next generations in our ways of doing things. It has been necessary to
conduct a two decades long Global Dialogue, and longer even, to find a process for the establishment of justice amongst us all. We are now seeing all aspects
of life through a single focusing lens we have called Global Law.
And that is the framework of Global Justice for all life on the planet as researched and developed by Global Civilization .
The Global Community has had work on Global Justice for all life on the planet ever since 1985.
A short list of our previous work on Global Justice for all life on the planet is shown here. Global Community Global Justice Movement has many inter-related components: monetary, social, economic, environmental, democracy, and peace.
Global Community Global Justice Movement promotes new thinking to benefit all economies and societies – the true, fair, democratic and efficient solution to poverty.
Global Community has the productive resources to eliminate poverty and injustice. Humanity is now in the process of developing the democratic and transparent communications
infrastructure which can bring this about.
Our approach transcends left-wing/right-wing designations. We see both conventional capitalism and socialism as being two arms of a philosophy which concentrate power in an
elite, to the detriment of society as a whole. Reforming the current money system, to empower each and every person, is a first step for justice.
The Global Community Global Justice Movement stands for:
1. Each person has the right to have warmth, clean air, clean water, food and housing, along with access to a quality health and educational system.
We are committed to nonviolence and recognizes militarism as a tool used by the global corporate elite to keep money flowing to the privileged few while restricting the
rights of people worldwide. We oppose corporate practice which places short-term profits ahead of human dignity, sustainable development and a healthy earth. We stand for
the globalization of our rights to speech, thought, religion, assembly, a clean environment, self-determination, freedom from fear and persecution and freedom
from poverty.
We stand for the rights of women, children, elderly, affordable health care, strong labor rights and social and economic policies that put people and the environment before
profits. We are opposed to the globalization of greed and obscene concentrations of wealth -- we say that
another world is possible and necessary.
Global Civilization is Global Community
2. Every person should be respected, equal, free and able to choose their own destiny.
3. Everyone should be able to fulfill their full emotional, intellectual and spiritual potential.
4. Every person must respect the rest of creation and take responsibility for preserving the environment including the fauna and flora, all of which are interdependent
and share a divine origin with humanity.
5. The inalienable rights of the individual include the rights of life, liberty, access to productive property, truly free markets, and equal justice before the law.
6. Global Economic System that is fair for all.
7. It is the duty of democratic government to secure the results the people want from the transparent management of their public affairs, as far as such results do not
infringe on the rights of the individual.
8. Global Community Global Peace Movement is about educating ourselves to engage in personal diplomacy in another country. We are given
opportunities to meet and listen to some of the leading authorities on such subjects as humanitarian
and volunteerism, education, politics, historical, social and cultural perspectives, conflict management, teamwork, world affairs, community involvement, and religion.
9. Global Justice for all Life on the planet and it is about:
* establishing respect for global rights;
* implementing a global regulatory framework for capitals and corporations that emphasizes global corporate ethics, corporate social
responsibility, protection of global rights, the environment, community and family aspects, safe working
conditions, fair wages and sustainable consumption aspects;
* establishing freshwater and clean air as primordial human rights;
* practicing tolerance and living together in peace and harmony with one another as neighbours;
* promoting the economic and social advancement of all peoples;
* maintaining peace and security in the world by using negotiations and peaceful means;
* finding unity in diversity with all Life;
* establishing the respect for the life-support system of the planet;
* keeping Earth healthy, productive and hospitable for all people and living things, and
* applying the principle that when there is a need to find a solution to a problem or a concern, a sound solution would be to choose a measure or conduct an action, if possible, which causes reversible damage as
opposed to a measure or an action causing an irreversible loss.
, and is a non-hierarchical nonviolent organization of individuals and organizations that promotes the arts, conducts workshops, facilitates nonviolent direct actions, educates, organizes, campaigns, empowers, and aims to rip injustice from its roots. Global Community movement for Global Justice is committed to making all Global Dialogues and Global Exhibitions safe spaces that are open, accessible, and accepting of all. We welcome everyone to participate in making this happen. If you have any special needs, please let us know.
Global Law
Global Parliament shall enact legislation as laid down in the Global Parliament Constitution.
Chapter 12, on the Exercise of Global Parliament competence, and more specifically, Chapter 12.1, on Common provisions, describe the process by
which Global Law was enacted.
Seeing the world today, Global Community claims that each of us depends on the well-being of the whole, and so global citizens have respect for the community of living beings, people and all other lifeforms, and plants, and for the preservation of Earth, air, water and soil. And that explains why the protection of the global life-support systems is the most important right on the Scale of Global Rights. Without this right there would be no life on our planet.
Global Protection Agency (GPA)
Global Rights
Global Movement to Help main listing:
The Judiciary 
Earth Court of Justice
Standards & good practices
Global Law & Regulations
Formation of new nations
Settling of disputes between nations through the process of the Earth Court of Justice
Codes, Bills, Acts, and Statutes
Federation of Global Governments Head Quarters
Portal of Global Community
Protection of the Global Life Support Systems.
Protection of the global life-support systems
Seeing the world today, Global Community claims that each of us depends on the well-being of the whole, and so global citizens have respect for the community of living beings, people and all other lifeforms, and plants, and for the preservation of Earth, air, water and soil. And that explains why the protection of the global life-support systems is the most important right on the Scale of Global Rights. Without this right there would be no life on our planet.
Global Civilization has established a planetary biodiversity zone now under the protection of the Global Protection Agency (GPA). We have declared a moratorium on all development in the zone, including all drilling, military testing, and any other destructive uses of the ecosystems.
The planetary biodiversity zone includes :
- North Pole region
- South Pole region
- all oceans
- all forests
- all lakes
- all rivers and connecting streams
- all wetlands and grasslands
- living organisms and ecosystems in all of the above
Table of contents
Introduction
Global Community concept
Global rights
Global Community criteria for sovereignty
Biodiversity zone in the North Pole region
Planetary biodiversity zone
Benefits of biodiversity
Boreal forest
The Boreal forests are threatened by human activities
Rainforest
Definition and description
Oceans, lakes and streams
Locations of temperate and tropical rainforests
Impacts of human activities on rainforest
Benefits of rainforest to Global Community
Temperate rainforest
Global warming
What we must do to protect life and create a planetary biodiversity zone
Conclusion
Our planet is populated with living beings consisting of millions of different life forms interacting with each
other to survive, thus forming an intricate web of life in different ecosystems on the planet. The interaction and interdependence between life
forms are the driving force that creates and maintains an ecological - environmental equilibrium that has sustained life on Earth for millions of years enabling
it to evolve, flourish and diversify. Global Community values Earth’s diversity in all its forms, the non-human as well as the human.
On Earth’s surface exists a diversity of arctic, temperate and tropical ecosystems with many different varieties of plants, animals, and human beings, all of which are
dependent on soils, waters and local climates. Biodiversity, the diversity of organisms, depends on maintenance of
ecodiversity, the diversity of ecosystems. Cultural diversity
– which in effect is a form of biodiversity – is the historical result
of humans fitting their activities, thoughts and language
to specific geographic ecosystems. Therefore, whatever
degrades and destroys ecosystems is both a biological
and a cultural source.
The planetary state of emergency is showing us that humanity needs and wants are so destructive to itself and to all life on Earth that something significant
must be done to protect this amazing life heritage, not just for ourselves but the next generations.
Over the last Century humanity has been depleting the natural capital of Earth, rich agricultural soils, its groundwater stored during ice ages, and its biodiversity.
Overpopulation and increasing per capita consumption are major reasons for the depleting of resources.
Politicians and business executives are under the delusion that such a disastrous
end to the modern human enterprise and institutions can be avoided by technological fixes that will allow the population and the economy to grow forever.
The recent event that brought down the American economy is a signal of desperation, a wake-up call, something has gone very wrong and we need to make things right.
People from Wall Street live a dream life. Our current way of life is unsustainable.
Our current way of life is unsustainable. We are the first species that will have to self-consciously impose limits on ourselves if we are to survive.
Can we really believe this world can go forward indefinitely, a few decades?
We are seeing the end of the era of cheap fossil energy, and there is no viable large-scale replacements for that energy.
The health of the planet is not what Wall Street is showing us. The reality is that we see more trends such as :
Is this a sustainable system? We need to recognize the
failure of fundamental systems and to abandon the notion that there is to do is recalibrate the institutions that structure our lives today.
Somewhat like the US Congress is doing. Put money we dont own into the system and everything will be fine.
We need to realize that the way we thought things would work out truly is gone. Capitalism is at the core of this unsustainable system. It
gives rise to the high-energy/mass-consumption configuration of privileged societies.
We must set-up measures to stop speculators from benefiting from the misery of others, by punishing
corrupt politicians, and by collectively understanding that bankers are rich because we have placed our money in their hands. Ultimately, unless we
begin to see the world as a whole, in which
things are truly interconnected, our governments will continue their hostilities, oil prices will keep on rising, and when the time comes for us to
complain, we will be faced with the guns of the police
whom we have helped to create with the payment of our taxes.
It's time for us to come to terms with reality. We need ways of organizing ourselves to help us live in a world with less energy and fewer material goods.
We need to recover a deep sense of community that has disappeared from many of our lives.
The World is in the global crisis. We are exploiting our natural resources, minerals and fuels faster than we are gaining access to alternative sources.
We are polluting the natural environment faster than the environment can regenerate itself to reach the level suitable for human needs.
We are changing climate dangerously. Our attitude and way of life show a moral degradation of
the existing forms of life on the planet. It's time for us to protect what is left to protect: life itself on Earth.
This is the reason for the creation of a planetary biodiversity zone.
In this report we have shown the benefits of biodiversity to humanity and hope this approach will motivate others to help create the zone.
Policies to decrease world population.
Perhaps the most important step towards achieving global sustainability now and for future generations is to control our population
growth. World overpopulation is now at the turning point and requires from each and every one of us making a commitment to a statement of rights,
responsibilities and accountabilities, and of belonging to Global Civilization, the human family.
Humanity has to regulate its population by means that are voluntary
and benign and has to take along with a fair proportion of other lifeforms.
Proper Earth management will certainly be a necessary tool to achieve our
goal. If not there will be a collapse of humanity and of the environment.
From now on every global decision has tremendous consequences on our future.
Comprehensive population policies are an essential element in a world development strategy that should combine access to reproductive health services,
to education and economic opportunities, to improved energy and natural resource technologies, and to healthyer models of consumption and the "good life."
Despite humanity's success in feeding a growing world population, the natural resources on which life depends, such as fresh water, cropland, fisheries and forests, are increasingly depleted or strained. In this millennium, population growth continues, meaning that more people will be sharing such finite resources as fresh water and cropland. More people worldwide are multiplying humanity's impact on the environment and on natural resources essential to life.
Because of the high per capita consumption of resources in industrialized nations, we have the world's worst population problem! People think of the population problem as being a problem only of "those people" in the undeveloped countries, but this serves only to draw attention away from the difficulties of dealing with our own problems. It is easier to tell a neighbor not to cut forests or create global warming than it is for us not to cut forests and create global warming. With regard to other countries, we can offer family planning assistance on request, but in those countries we have no jurisdiction or direct responsibility. Within our own country we have complete jurisdiction and responsibility, yet we failed to act to help solve our own problems. What the industrialized world can do to help developing nations stop their population growth is to set an example and stop our own population growth.
More and more young people on every continent want to start bearing children later in life, and to have smaller families than at any
time in history. Likewise, in greater proportions than ever, women and girls in particular, want to go to school and to college, and
they want to find fulfilling and well-paid employment. Helping people in every country obtain the information and services they
need to put these ambitions into effect is all that can be done, and all that needs to be done, to bring world population growth
to a stable landing in this century.
Because of the limited quantities of Earth resources to be made
available for this generation and the next ones, and because of environmental,
climate change, and world population concerns, there is a need to manage the
entire process of using Earth natural resources. And we all know that the amount of oil
left in the ground in the world has already passed its peak quantity. So why
waste the oil on doing things we know are nothing but a waste of energy and
often used for destruction and certainly will shorten the life span of the next
generations. A Ministry of Global Resources is needed to look after the
management of Earth resources at all stages: exploration, production,
transportation, manufacturing and distribution.
We are all members of Global Community. We all have the duty to protect the rights and welfare of all species and all people. No humans have the right to encroach on the ecological space of other species and other people, or treat them with cruelty and violence. All life species, humans and cultures, have intrinsic worth. They are subjects, not objects of manipulation or ownership. No humans have the right to own other species, other people or the knowledge of other cultures through patents and other intellectual property rights. Defending biological and cultural diversity is a duty of all people. Diversity is an end in itself, a value, a source of richness both material and cultural. All members of Global Community including all humans have the right to food and water, to safe and clean habitat, to security of ecological space. These rights are natural rights, they are birthrights given by the fact of existence on Earth and are best protected through community rights and the Global Commons. They are not given by states or corporations, nor can they be extinguished by state or corporate action. No state or corporation has the right to erode or undermine these natural rights or enclose the commons that sustain all through privatisation or monopoly control.
We need to take a giant step forward to a new form of democracy. How the Earth should be owned is the major economic question of this time. The world should be owned not just by the people living in it but by all life on Earth.
Planet Earth is humanity's inheritance. The land, water, air, and the wonderful other bounty of natural resources were not human made. Everyone, all lifeforms, has a common right and ownership to their uses. We must recognize the rightful claim of every person to inherit an equitable portion of Earth's natural bounty. That is humanity common heritage.
Global Community has proposed a new democratic mandate recognizing that land, air, oil and natural gas, minerals, all other natural resources
rightly belong to global communities. The Earth is our birthright and our common heritage. What we make from our mental and physical labor can rightfully be held as individual property but the profit of the Earth should be shared by all life. The unjust and inequitable ownership of the land and of all other natural resources have caused the great majority of local-to-global conflicts and wars, and the global warming of our planet. And now our global life-support systems are under threat. Let us appreciate the commons that are truly important for all life survival.
Global Ministries.
Ministries
Table of Contents
I. Global Movement to Help
II. Global Ministries:
III.
Building a Global Civilization for all life.
IV. Making clear to all people
what they can no longer do, and what they must do for survival.
V. As part of Global
Protection Agency (GPA): establishing in each nation an "Emergency, Rescue, and
Relief Centre".
VI. Establishing a global
action plan for survival. Such worldwide action plan be promoted widely during
the Global Exhibition.
VII. Education for Global
Survival
VIII. Applying the proper
taxation system to establish confidence and trust in the global action plan for
survival
IX. Making available to all
nations an efficient global warning system to warn people of imminent danger due
to natural or humanmade disasters.
X. Analyzing and publishing
local and global impacts of all significant events that affect the survival of
life on the planet.
XI. Family is important.
Family with too many children is a problem.
XII. Preventing actions to
alliviate the effects of global warming and climate change.
XIII. Making public worlwide a
daily list of all people responsible of causing significant deterioration of the
global life-support systems.
XIV. Conducting research and
development of new ways of saving us all from conflicts, wars, destructive paths
or ways of doing things.
XV. Measuring, assessing and
publishing daily actions and changes in the world which significantly affect
survival
XVI. Moratorium on world
population and the fertility rate, and ending population warfare.
XVII. Ending economic warfare
XVIII. Creating a
planetary biodiversity zone
XIX. Establishing a global
dialogue between all Peoples.
XX. Humanity new Vision of the World.
XXI. Global Parliament's Constitution.
Over the past decades, Global Community has been promoting the formation of several global ministries for the proper governance of Earth. Global ministries are world wide organizations just like the World Trade Organization (WTO) for trade and therefore should have the power to rule on cases as that of the WTO. The formation of global ministries is the most important event in human history. Humanity sees the need to manage the world affairs in several aspects of our lives: energy, agriculture, environment, health, Earth resources, Earth management, security and safety, emergencies and rescues, trade, banks, speculation on world markets, peace, family and human development, water resources protection, youth, education, justice, science and technology, finance, human resources, ethics, global rights, sustainable development, industry, and the manufacturing of products. Global ministries will be given power to rule themselves in harmony with each other.
There is a multitude of diverse Earth resources being taken from the ground and water, carried away for processing, manufacturing, packaging, or used in some form or another by consumers. Having reached nearly 6.1 billion in year 2000, human population continues to grow. UN population projections for the year 2050 range from 7.9 billion to 10.9 billion, suggesting the extent to which we can influence our future. More people and higher incomes worldwide are multiplying humanity's impacts on the environment and on the natural resources that are essential to life. The planet's fresh water, fisheries, forests and atmosphere are already strained to their safe limits for global survival. Based on these trends, it is clear that the 21st century will witness even greater pressures on natural resources. Young people increasingly want to wait to have children and to have smaller families.
Policymakers have a choice. They can do
nothing, or they can help ensure that in the 21st century the world's population
peaks with fewer than 8 billion people, simply by committing the financial
resources to meet the needs of couples who want to have smaller families later
in life.
The future of the relationship between people and critical
natural resources has begun to appear more hopeful than it has for some time.
Unfortunately, human population growth continues, meaning that more people will
be sharing such finite resources as freshwater and cropland. And in some regions
– notably in sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Asia – large families and early
pregnancies provide strong momentum for population growth that could continue
for generations to come.
Global Community has researched and developed several important global ministries:
1 Air
2 Water
3 Mining
4 Electromagnetic waves
5 Fisheries
6 Tourism
7 Environment
8 Forests
9 Soils
10 Fossil fuels
Trade laws to facilitate cross border transactions
Consumers' rights impinge on the rights of other humans living in Global Civilization . The right to choice is the consumer right that refers to the right to have a range and variety of
goods and services at competitive, fair prices and variable, satisfactory quality. In order to assure choice in the developed country markets, governments have implemented trade laws
to facilitate cross border transactions and transnational corporations (TNCs) have set up business off shore so they can lessen the cost of the production process. The goods that are
available in the developed country markets are provided by slave labour, child labour, sweatshops or in countries that allow the TNCs to forego adhering to pollution or ecological
concerns and human rights in pursuit of profit. Labour rights are abused in efforts to earn more profits. This leads to abhorrent working conditions, job insecurity and low living
standards (all human rights). Consumers in developed countries have been socialized to want more and more things to consume but have not been socialized to appreciate the impact of
their consumption choices on the human rights of other people; that is, they are not being responsible for their decisions.
Short term solution to saving the world, the Scale of Global Right.
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The Scale of Global Rights shows social values in order of importance, and so helps us truly understand the rights of an individual and a community for humanity's survival on our planet.
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itself a necessary first step which must be approved by all of us.
The Scale of Global Rights contains six (6) sections. Section 1 has more importance than all other sections below, and so on.
Concerning sections 1, 2, and 3, it shall be Global Civilization highest priority to guarantee these rights to their respective Member Nations and to have proper legislation and
implement and enforce global law as it applies and as shown in the Global Constitution.
Perhaps the Scale of Global Rights
represents the strongest pillar of our vision.
In 1985, the Scale of Global Rights (.mp4 (20 MB) ) was first proposed as a replacement to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. After several decades of research and development, many global dialogues, we still find the Scale as the best solution to global problems. Today, we are presenting once more the Scale as the best educating tool to bring about the change the people of the world need to achieve for their own survival.
Values foundation of the Scale of Global Rights
On the Scale of Global Rights,
primordial human rights and the protection of the global life-support systems and ecological rights are on top of the Scale. They are the
most important aspects on the Scale.
Primordial human rights rights
are in a separate categorie and distinct than ecological rights, the right of the greatest number of people,
economic rights, social rights, cultural rights and religious rights. Ecological and primordial
human rights are the only rights that have existed unchanged throughout the evolutionary
origin of our species. Any major change would have threatened our very existence. All
other human rights listed here are rights created by human beings and can be changed
depending of new circumstances; they are not stagnant but are rather flexible and adaptive,
and they can evolve. Ecological and primordial human rights of this generation and of future
generations are therefore much more important than any other human rights existing now
and in the future.
How meaningful is the right to life or to participation in political life if poverty, gender inequality, destitution and epidemics prevent individuals from enjoying freedom of movement, freedom to vote, to marry and so on? The economic and social rights are the essential prerequisite for the effectiveness and exercise of all other rights (other than the protection of the global life-support systems and ecological rights) recognized for human beings. The developing countries are having a harder time than others to achieve the exercise of these rights on a lasting basis, with the problems of economic globalization presenting new challenges. We must therefore beware of enforcing economic rights alone to the detriment of individual civil rights and the rights of all individuals to decide their own fate and the future of their country, their political rights. The universality of human rights recognizes the right of all individuals to participate in the cultural life of their community and of other country, to receive education and training, and to be informed. Primordial human rights are necessarily human needs but not all human needs are primordial human rights. To determine rights requires an understanding of needs and reponsibilities and their importance.
As universal values, equality, justice and freedoms are concerned with
our ability to decide, to choose values and to participate in the making
of laws, and they are dependent on the recognition of other people. These
values forbid any form of discrimination on the grounds of race, nationality,
sex, religion, age or mother tongue. By accepting both values of freedom
and equality we can achieve justice. One can be answerable for one's
actions in a 'just' way only if judgements are given in the framework of
democratically established laws and courts. Social justice is another
universal value to which Global Civilization aspires and accepts
as a universal value. Social justice consists in sharing wealth with a
view to greater equality and the equal recognition of each individual's
merits. All persons within a given society deserve equal access to goods
and services that fulfill basic human needs.
To determine rights requires an understanding of needs and reponsibilities and their importance. The Scale of Global Rights
is the best guidance for continuing this process. The Scale shows social
values in order of importance and so will help us understand the rights of a community. What are the universal needs of a person, family, a community?
Primordial human rights are necessarily human needs but not all human needs are primordial human rights.
Nevertheless there are very specific primordial human needs. First there are the material needs, the requisites for a dignified life and truly those needs are the primordial human rights.
Then there are the nonmaterial needs which can evolve, and are flexible and adaptive:
All families need shelter, food, language, body of knowledge, certain skills, a source of income. Security of the home is an important aspect for any family and the global community it belongs to. Primordial human needs raise the question of interacting universal responsibilities. In terms of parenthood, parents must raised their children mentally and physically healthy. It is a responsibility to do so. Which also means each local community must have an educational system to help parents raise the child.
The Scale is a balancing process to sustain all life on the planet now and future generations
Concerning sections 1, 2, and 3, it shall be Global Community highest priority to guarantee these rights to Member Nations and to have proper lesgislation and implement and enforce global law as it applies.
Section 1. Ecological rights and the protection of the global life-support systems
Section 2. Primordial human rights
Section 3. The ecological rights, the protection of the global life-support systems and the primordial human rights of future generations
Concerning Sections 4, 5 and 6, it shall be the aim of Global Community to secure these other
rights for all global citizens within the federation of all nations, but
without immediate guarantee of universal achievement and enforcement. These
rights are defined as Directive Principles, obligating the Global Community
to pursue every reasonable means for universal realization and implementation.
Section 4. Community rights, rights of direct democracy, the right that the greatest number of people has by virtue of its number (50% plus one) and after voting representatives democratically.
Section 5. Economic rights
(business and consumer rights, and their responsibilities and accountabilities)
and social rights (civil and political rights)
Section 6. Cultural rights and religious rights
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Definition of the Scale of Global Rights
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On the Scale of Global Rights
primordial human rights and the protection of the global life-support systems (ecological rights) are on top of the Scale. They are the
most important aspects on the Scale.
For instance, the existing and future uses of water are constantly challenged;
balancing supply and demand is made even harder by the amounts of pollution
found in the air, land and waters. A large part of our body is made of
water, and we cannot live without water; therefore water is a primordial
human right by our very nature. In order to avoid conflicts and wars
over drinking (fresh)water, fresh water has been categorized as a primordial
human right. Industrial pollution plays a major role in the deterioration
of nature but this time the level of pollution is above the carrying capacity
of a healthy ecosystem. Pollution also affects significantly human health and
all lifeforms on Earth. Every person needs Oxygen to live so clean air
is certainly also a primordial human right by our very nature.
Long term solution to saving the world, Global Parliament.
Making clear to all people what they
can no longer do
and must do for life survival on Earth.
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Politics and Justice without borders: Earth governance
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Global Parliament
The House of Elected Representatives, the House of Advisers, the Earth Executive Council, and the Federation of Global Governments together form Global Parliament. The Peoples of Global Community elect, nominate or appoint their representatives to Global Parliament.
1. Global Parliament shall enact legislation, and exercise the budgetary function, as well as functions of political control and consultation as laid down in the Constitution.
2. Global Parliament shall be elected by direct universal suffrage of all Global Community citizens in free and secret ballot for a term of five years. Representation of Global Civilization citizens shall be of one Elected Representative per million people. Sufficiently in advance of the Parliamentary elections, the Global Parliament shall adopt by unanimity, on the basis of a proposal from Global Parliament and with its consent, a decision establishing the composition of Global Parliament, respecting the principles set out above.
3. Global Parliament shall elect its President and its officers from among its members.
4. Global Parliament shall create, alter, abolish or consolidate the departments, commissions, offices, agencies and other parts of the several organs of Global Parliament, subject to the specific provisions of Global Parliament Constitution.
A working Global Parliament Constitution is the only way for us all to guarantee essential services, Justice, and protection to every home. Global Parliament is not a World Government or Earth Government. No! It is the Federation of Global Governments. Global Parliament and its Constitution were researched and developed from fundamental principles as opposed to kitchen recipe types of Constitution that follow a set of instructions for a world parliament of some kind. Or as opposed to using the old USA Constitution with its military overtones to invading the world and lobbyists base democracy.
Some of those principles we developed are "Global Community" and the "Scale of Global Rights". That is what differentiates most our proposal from others. The Federation and its Global Parliament operate as per those principles. The definition of Global Community concept is truly the 21st century "philosophy of life" framework, some called it the religion of the third millennium, others called it the politics of the future generations now.
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Global Parliament and Essential Services
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Federation of Global Governments
The Federation of Global Governments represents the nations of the world. Candidates to the Federation are elected or appointed by Member Nations. The Federation is the place of meeting between Global Governments. We want each Global Government to take a larger share of responsibility of the specific region where it operates, and be more accountable to the people of that region. And we want a Global Government to be made of wealthy nations as well as nations in need of help. Be compassionate. Each Global Government is obliged to offer Essential Services to the people of its member nations.
House of Elected Representatives
The House of Elected Representatives represents Global Community directly and equally. Candidates to the House of Elected Representatives are elected democratically. Representatives shall be elected by direct universal suffrage of all Global Community citizens in free and secret ballot for a term of five years. Representation of Global Civilization citizens shall be of one Elected Representative per million people.
House of Advisers
Candidates to the House of Advisers are nominated by teachers, students, or professional organizations. The House of Advisers goal is to represent the highest good and best interests of humanity as a whole.
Earth Executive Council
Members of the Earth Executive Council shall consist of a representative of each Member Nation at ministerial level.
