Robert Muller: [GMW #2174] Common Ownership Registry - Art, Nature, Oceans, - Owned by Local, State, National, Continental And World

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

[GMW #2174] Common Ownership Registry - Art, Nature, Oceans, - Owned by Local, State, National, Continental And World

Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 1001 to 1500

~ Idea 1426 ~ 6 June 1998

One could make a serious plea for local, state, national, continental and world common ownership. For example:

- the archives and archives building of my hometown in Alsace-Lorraine belong to the city, and rightly so;

- many art treasures belong to local, state and national museums. The UN and its agencies are also conservation places of art treasures;

- there are many municipal, state and national parks in the world and the beginning of world parks with the wonderful preserved lands of the University for Peace;

- the high seas and oceans are a commons of humanity and are to be administered by a United Nation High Authority;

I would like to see more of all this, in order to stop the destruction of the planet by sole national sovereignty and private business motives.

It is a major question worth looking into on a world-wide basis. This is why I have recommended the creation of a world land ownership register or cadastre. It would yield the most interesting results. The publicly owned roads, highways, bridges and airports of this planet would alone yield an impressive figure. I highly recommend that WIPO, the UN's World Intellectual Property Organization be entrusted with the holding of a World real estate register or cadastre.

In a true democracy, people are entitled to know to whom this Earth belongs. It will be a good subject for the Panel of personalities under former Secretary General Boutros Ghali appointed by UNESCO to look into the subject of democracy. I will send them my ideas on the subject.

Robert's The Miracle, Joy and Art of Living,
Volume II Chapter 4 - Of Positive Living
To be negative is naive and repels.
To be positive is interesting and attracts.

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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