Showing posts with label Injustice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Injustice. Show all posts

Thursday, February 27, 2020

[GMW #4531] Nurture With Nature Not With Suicidal Illusions Of Limitless Growth

[GMW #4531] Nurture With Nature Not With Suicidal Illusions Of Limitless Growth Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 4000

~ Idea 4917 ~
Should we not consider the human species a species which has become growth crazy, which believes that there is no limit to what it can do and change in the world for its own benefits, not realizing that it is against nature and that the Earth punishes with extinction species' which proliferate and get out of control, disregarding the realities of the Earth' elements and life.

Yes, I'm afraid that there can be no illusion anymore that humans are engaged on a wrong, suicidal course.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II - The Art of Personal Happy Living
Chapter 4 - Of Spirituality


God is the magnificent, elevated consolation of the poor, of the humble, the down-trodden and the victims of injustice. What a sad world it would be without faith, without images of God, without temples and cathedrals. How could the communists be so stupid and not enlist God on their side!
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References: Earth Charter, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Rights of: Children,Women,IndigenousPeople
To Be Written: Rights of Nature, Birds, Animals, Fish, etc.


There are opportunities even in the most difficult moments.
~ Wangari Maathai

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The first 4000 Ideas & Dreams
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The Idea Dreams
- With An Index

Robert's Harmonic & Talk
Ode To Joy
Never Give Up (Audio Talk)

Decide to - poems
DecideTo Index
DecideTo Poems

Thursday, June 21, 2018

[GMW #4136] Environmental Service To Replace Military Service

[GMW #4136] Environmental Service To Replace Military Service  Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 4000
~ Idea 4526 ~
There are already several countries, especially Nordic countries which offer premiums to owners of land in the poor countries who accept to reforest their lands. Rich countries could also provide funding to small countries which would decide to abolish the military and devote the funds to environmental causes. Military service would be replaced by environmental service.

As noted in Idea 20 of Volume I there are already 26 demilitarized countries in the world. In Central America demilitarized Costa Rica is much more peaceful and prosperous than the other Central American republics.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume I - The Great Scene of Creation
Chapter 2 - Our Miraculous Planetary Home

Outcries of injustice resemble the human body's pains: 
they point at a malfunctioning of the system.

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

WORD FOR THE DAY
We are each other's harvest;
we are each other's business;
we are each other's magnitude and bond.

~ Gwendolyn Brooks

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Robert's Harmonic & Talk
Ode To Joy
Never Give Up (Audio Talk)

Decide to - poems
DecideTo Index
DecideTo Poems

Friday, April 6, 2018

[GMW #4017] Understand Eternity - Reason In Terms Of Universal & Planetary So It Becomes Irresist


[GMW #4017] Understand Eternity - Reason In Terms Of Universal & Planetary So It Becomes Irresistable Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 4000
~ Idea 4410 ~
Summary of a passage of my Journal of 5 January 1970. Luncheon offered by the Secretary General to Mr. Aurelio Peccei, a remarkable man who merits to be known world-wide. Having reached the height of business success he now pursues a dream of his youth, the same as mine and that of Robert Schuman, namely the dream of a world without borders. He speaks of futurology, of macro-problems and I noted two remarks which profoundly impressed me.

He said, "Once one has placed oneself on a universal point of view there is no return possible. From the time I saw the pictures taken from the moon of our Earth I went across this step and I am no longer able to reason in terms which are not universal and planetary. An unceasing growing number of humans will take that step too and the movement will become irresistible. Number two, it is enough to have understood this and everything becomes clear. When I was a kid I could not understand the notion of eternity. Today I understand it and everything has become simple."

My contribution to the conversation was this:
1. The study of the future has been undertaken in many sectors by the United Nations and by its specialized agencies. The time has now come to link all these diverse elements and to create a Committee of the Future in the Economic and Social Council.*

2. In order to know where the world will go at the present writing it is enough to multiply by 7 billion (the projected number of the world population in the year 2000) the figures of consumption which prevail at the present time in the United States. One will be shocked by the figures and one will have to correct the present course of economic development.

Here is an example: multiply by 7 billion the average consumption of 600 kilograms of steel per inhabitant of the United States. The result is an impossibility, a crazy concept. And I write later in my Journal that this conversation was at the origin of the famous book by Peccei and the Club of Rome, entitled The Limits of Growth, a book which adopted exactly this hypothesis: Suppose that the world of 7 billion** inhabitants will reach the current levels of consuming of the American people.

The result of it pointed to unprecedented disasters and gave a durable shock to the world economy. From that time there is talk of 'sustainable economic development'. Aurelio Peccei says so rightly in The Inner Limits of Mankind "Modern man is 'unfinished,' his transition to a greater maturity retarded. One must recognize this as a cold fact.

The current global crisis — in which old and new problems of population, food, education, resources, energy, crowding, inflation, poverty, alienation, militarization, disorder, ecodegradation, injustice, etc., are growing and intertwining beyond recognition — are a consequence of the difficulty people have in achieving the level of understanding and sense of responsibility demanded by their mutated universe.

They have — all of them, in all classes and nations throughout the planet — remained confined within obsolete cultural boundaries which in the past could serve them well enough, but which nowadays are dangerously crippling, preventing them from living on par with the reality of their time and from controlling the mechanisms of change."

Thirty-one years later, in 2001, it still has not been done despite my urgings.

Why not? The fear of nations of the Future?
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* This was never done. In 1998, when writing my 2000 Ideas for the year 2000 I recommended the creation of a main commission of the General Assembly on the future. It was not done.

** Thanks to the work and recommendations of the United Nations that figure of 7 billion was reduced to 6.1 billion, [the actual 2000 population was 6.8 billion].
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World Popuation
1500      585 Million
1800      978 Million
1900   1.6     Billion
1950   2.5     Billion - More than twice 1800 - In 150 Years
2000   6.8     Billion - More than twice 1950 - In   50 Years
2018   7.6     Billion
2023   8        Billion - or by 2026
2055  10       Billion - Estimate made in 2018

See Live - Current world Population
http://www.worldometers.info/world-population/

Population & Land Area by World Region
4.545 Billion  - 31 million Km2 - Asia
1.287 Billion  - 29 million Km2 - Africa
1.015 Billion  - 39 million Km2 - Americas including Caribbean
  .742 Billion  - 22 million Km2 - Europe
  .041 Billion  -   8 million Km2 - Oceania 

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume I The great Scene of Creation
Chapter 1 Our Place in the Universe

We are minuscule entities in the universe and in time.

We will never fully understand the infinitely large and infinitely small. 

We will never grasp the beginningless beginning and endless end. 

And yet, within these limitations we can live miraculous, joyful, confident, searching, fulfilled, extraordinary lives and acquire an incredible consciousness of the stupendous universe and of our miraculous Earth.
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UN News: UN Chronicle, United Nations News Service, UN Wire Archive
References: Earth Charter, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Rights of: Children,Women, IndigenousPeople
To Be Written: Rights of Nature, Birds, Animals, Fish, etc.

WORD FOR THE DAY
Ask, and you will receive;
seek, and you will find;
knock, and the door will be opened.
~ Jesus

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The first 4000 Ideas & Dreams
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The Idea Dreams
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Robert's Harmonic & Talk
Ode To Joy
Never Give Up (Audio Talk)

Decide to - poems
DecideTo Index
DecideTo Poems