Robert Muller: [GMW #2227] Joining The Unwritten, Anonymous World Movement Of Volunteers For The Cleanest Mile On Earth

Wednesday, June 1, 2011

[GMW #2227] Joining The Unwritten, Anonymous World Movement Of Volunteers For The Cleanest Mile On Earth

Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500

It seems that beautiful stories never end. There is a magic built in them. In May 1998 I was invited with President Gorbachev and former UN Secretary General Boutros Ghali to a conference on Globalization and the Fate of the Nation-State, in Cagliari, on the Italian island of Sardinia. I was asked to submit to it a paper on the next stage of the international system (it is reproduced at the end of my ideas 1501 to 1600). At the conclusion of the conference a public and press meeting was held at which questions were asked by the audience.

I got the question: "What can one poor, lonely individual do to improve the world situation?"

I told them the story of the cleanest mile and the effect it would have if 5.6 billion people would each clean a mile: we would be the cleanest planet in the universe.

I told them also that early at sunrise on this very day, I had cleaned the beach in front of our hotel: I received not only the applause of the audience, but also a few days later, from someone in the audience the following fax:

Dear Dr. Muller,

Since you were so kind to clean one of our beaches, I am happy to send you the following information on beach cleaning just published by the leading Italian newspaper Il Messaggero:

(1) 200 Italian beaches were cleaned yesterday by 120,000 volunteers. (2) Hundreds of boats and 5,000 underwater cleaners went hunting for plastic bottles and sacks in an operation named "clean sea-bottom". (3) In Grosseto (Tuscany), 500 people met on the beach with delegations of young environmentalists from 9 Mediterranean countries for the operation "Clean up the Mediterranean Sea"; this operation will reach its climax on June 5, world day for the environment organized by the United Nations Environment Program. (4) In the Marche region (center Italy, on the Adriatic), the project "clean beaches" is becoming a permanent project financed by the Region, that will utilize 200 boats for the cleaning of the sea-bottom.

With warmest greetings to you and to your wife Barbara,
Dr. Sergio Tripi

And on Father's Day, a few days later, in my US hometown of Dobbs Ferry in the Hudson Valley, we walked with my wife on the marvelous wooded old Croton aqueduct and helped remove from it trash to make it the cleanest aqueduct on Earth.

Please, dear reader, help me implement this simple idea. Join the unwritten, anonymous world movement of volunteers for the cleanest mile on Earth. Mother Earth will rejoice and recompense us with much happiness. I am placing this dream on my Bench of Dreams.

Better to pick up a piece of refuse than to curse the garbage.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 5 - Of Love

The heart has its reasons which reason ignores. -Pascal

How right he is. Reason might tell me to dislike, while the heart asks me to love instead. And the same is true between nations, religions, all human beings and groups.

UN News Sources - UN Chronicle, United Nations News Service , UN Wire News Archive
References: Earth Charter, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Rights of: Children, Women, Indigenous People
To Be Written: Rights of Nature, Birds, Animals, Fish, etc.

HeartMath

"This is the soulful meaning of happiness: to live the life that is truly ours, to give the most of who we essentially are."

- Jack Weber

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