Let’s imagine for a moment that we can create a world with no more war. If we put our collective mind to it, could it just be possible?
Can we imagine what the world might look like if we stopped spending so much of our energy and trillions of dollars a year on making and using arms. Could it be that everyone on the planet would have the basic necessities of life, like food and water and somewhere reasonable to live.
In its latest book, You Can Change the World, the Club of Budapest envisages such a time, some twenty years from now, when everyone realises that we cannot eliminate the powerful weapons of any nation or region as long as other nations keep them. Members of the newly established United Peoples Organisation decree world wide disarmament. Instead of making devices for killing and destruction, defence is confined to making sure that weapons are no longer being produced anywhere.
The fact that the Johannesburg Earth Summit failed to deliver for the poor and the planet at the same time as the United States and Britain were preparing to go bombing again, regardless of the cost, could not be a starker illustration of what is wrong with the world. The Summit gave us the opportunity to get our priorities right: but world leaders were either unwilling or unable to grasp it. However, new alliances were made amongst the people who were there. There are now an amazing 800,000 non-governmental organisations, officially accredited at the United Nations. At Johannesburg many more people began to realise that if organisations and activists support each other we could create a global voice for change which will be unstoppable.
This was the idea behind the Earth Emergency Call to Action, supported by many Positive News readers, which was handed personally to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and the Chairman of the Summit, South African President, Thabo Mbeki. The next big event is the European Social Forum in Florence, in November, where Earth Emergency will put forward proposals, including one for a World Futures Council, to take these ideas forward. As Paulo Coelho says, we can change the collective dream. It’s time for all of us to believe it and play our part.
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30 Sep 2003
Let’s imagine for a moment that we can create a world with no more war. If we put our collective mind to it, could it just be possible?
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While we've taken every precaution to ensure that the content of this article remains intact, it may contain errors.Let’s imagine for a moment that we can create a world with no more war. If we put our collective mind to it, could it just be possible?
Can we imagine what the world might look like if we stopped spending so much of our energy and trillions of dollars a year on making and using arms. Could it be that everyone on the planet would have the basic necessities of life, like food and water and somewhere reasonable to live.
In its latest book, You Can Change the World, the Club of Budapest envisages such a time, some twenty years from now, when everyone realises that we cannot eliminate the powerful weapons of any nation or region as long as other nations keep them. Members of the newly established United Peoples Organisation decree world wide disarmament. Instead of making devices for killing and destruction, defence is confined to making sure that weapons are no longer being produced anywhere.
The fact that the Johannesburg Earth Summit failed to deliver for the poor and the planet at the same time as the United States and Britain were preparing to go bombing again, regardless of the cost, could not be a starker illustration of what is wrong with the world. The Summit gave us the opportunity to get our priorities right: but world leaders were either unwilling or unable to grasp it. However, new alliances were made amongst the people who were there. There are now an amazing 800,000 non-governmental organisations, officially accredited at the United Nations. At Johannesburg many more people began to realise that if organisations and activists support each other we could create a global voice for change which will be unstoppable.
This was the idea behind the Earth Emergency Call to Action, supported by many Positive News readers, which was handed personally to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and the Chairman of the Summit, South African President, Thabo Mbeki. The next big event is the European Social Forum in Florence, in November, where Earth Emergency will put forward proposals, including one for a World Futures Council, to take these ideas forward. As Paulo Coelho says, we can change the collective dream. It’s time for all of us to believe it and play our part.
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