Robert Muller: [GMW #2485] Earth Emergency - Ending World War III Against Earth

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[GMW #2485] Earth Emergency - Ending World War III Against Earth

[GMW #2485] Earth Emergency - Ending World War III Against Earth

Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500

~ Idea 1085a ~
30 June 1997

Message to the Club of Budapest

During fifty years of world service with the United Nations, I have observed three major phases in recent human history:

from 1945 to 1970's a period of most intensive, unprecedented global humanism (peace, human rights, health, well-being, economic development, racial equality, decolonization, human longevity, literacy, etc.);
from 1970's to 1980: the birth of a novel, unprecedented concern for the environment (UNESCO's 1968 world conference on the biosphere, the UN's 1972 world conference on the environment);
since the 1980's (the 1978 UN world conference on the ozonosphere, the two UN conferences on the climate in 1979 and 1987) the problem number one has become the fate of the Earth itself. Throughout this period I have considered the birth of a global consciousness to the human species and the creation of global institutions and convening of world conferences as the major hopes for humanity to cope with the acute global problems all of a sudden facing us. I became therefore an enthusiastic member of the Club of Budapest created by my former colleague and friend Ervin Laszlo, a world thinker, servant and activist of great vision.

Having just now followed the UN extraordinary General Assembly convened to assess the road covered since the UN Rio de Janeiro world conference on the environment of 1992, I was appalled by the resistance, slowness, if not opposition of many governments, including major ones, to act upon the recommendations and agreements of the Rio Conference. In the meantime the world population continues to increase at an alarming rate, and so does the deterioration of our environment and the outright destruction of nature. I consider it therefore to be my duty to make the following recommendations.

1. to declare a state of emergency of the Earth;

2. to consider the present situation as an outright war, a World War III against the Earth and its elements and we humans must end this war;

3. to request a second world conference on the biosphere, thirty years after the first one in 1968, to see what the state of our biosphere is today;

4. to support the extension to other countries of the World Party of Natural Law already existing in 85 countries due to the initiative of British scientists;

(Continued in tomorrow's Good Morning World.)

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 13 - Of Speaking
Someone said to me:
"You are not so much saying something, as speaking to someone." Yes, I always speak to someone, to my human brothers and sisters, exhorting them to be happy, just, truthful, peaceful, overflowing with kindness and love, exalted by the joy of living on this miraculous planet, and to do good in gratitude for the gift of life.

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.

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Happiness can only be found if you free yourself from all other distractions.
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"We hold on to so many things that cause us a great deal of pain, stress and suffering -- and instead of letting them all go, instead of allowing ourselves to be stress free and happy -- we cling on to them. Not anymore. Starting today we will give up on all those things that no longer serve us, and we will embrace change. Ready? Here we go." Dana Sauvic, a student of the arts, economics and spirituality reflects on 15 commonplace impediments to joy that we often unwittingly carry around with us, and urges us to release them. { read more }

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