Tuesday, June 19, 2018

[GMW #4119] Being A 'Developed' Planet Or Nation Should Not Mean Destroying Parts Of Planet Earth

[GMW #4119] Being A 'Developed' Planet Or Nation Should Not Mean Destroying Parts Of Planet Earth   Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 4000
~ Idea 4509 ~
In the year 2050 we are expected to be 9 billion humans, 3 billion more than today; there will be tens of thousands of new products; innumerable new cars and airplanes; many more books, magazines and newspapers; innumerable computers and television sets; infinitely more telephone calls and electronic mail; world tourism; insurances for anything you can think of; but you will have to buy fresh water and carry oxygen bottles on our shoulders to breathe fresh air; the media will make sure to have exciting, especially bad news every day; advertisement will help you to buy more and more anything forever; the supermarkets will be sky-high hyper markets offering you, in addition to any products on Earth, sleeping facilities, movies and entertainment. Most surfaces of our planet, mountains, forests, rivers, seas and oceans will be occupied. There will be even cities on the seas and oceans and in the atmosphere.

Yes, dear humans you will have the greatest time on a 'developed', no longer primitive, but half destroyed planet Earth.

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

UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld and U Thant had different views regarding the allegiance of world servants:  for Dag Hammarskjöld world allegiance was the rule, superseding national allegiance.  U Thant for his part was allegiant to himself, to his family, to his culture, to his nation, but also to humanity and the Earth.  His belief in multiple allegiances is closer to the true reality of life, namely diversity in unity.
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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.

Daily Ray of Hope
Alabama Hills, Owens Valley,
                                                          California Photo by Elaine Calvert | Alabama Hills, Owens Valley, California

I love to watch the fine mist of the night come on,
The windows and the stars illumined, one by one,
The rivers of dark smoke pour upward lazily,
And the moon rise and turn them silver. I shall see
The springs, the summers, and the autumns slowly pass;
And when old Winter puts his blank face to the glass,
I shall close all my shutters, pull the curtains tight,
And build me stately palaces by candlelight.

~ William O. Douglas

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[GMW #4118] There Should Be A Fundamental Human Right To Youth, To Refuse To Go To War And Kill Other Young People

[GMW #4118] There Should Be A Fundamental Human Right To Youth, To Refuse To Go To War And Kill Other Young People   Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 4000
~ Idea 4508 ~
My wife Barbara is right when she holds that young people should refuse to go to war and kill other young people in wars decided by adults.  This should be a fundamental human right of youth.  The adults who declared the war should go.

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

We world servers are a new breed of human beings:  we come from all parts of the planet, we are most knowledgeable about our globe and human family, we work for the entire Earth and for all our human brothers and sisters.  From us will come a new world philosophy, world spirituality, world sociology, world psychology, world ideology, world political science and world vision.  We are the midwives of the birth of new paradigms for our species' prodigious planetary journey.
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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.

WORD FOR THE DAY
Listen to your life...touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis all moments are key moments and life itself is grace.
~
Frederick Buechner

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[GMW #4117] Poor Peasants In Costa Rica Richer Than Persons Living In Monstrous, Overpopulated Cities

[GMW #4117] Poor Peasants In Costa Rica Richer Than Persons Living In Monstrous, Overpopulated Cities   Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 4000
~ Idea 4507 ~
Poor peasants in Costa Rica might be richer than rich persons in a monstrous, overpopulated city.  

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

What have reason, science, art, love, religion, poetry and philosophy in common? They all wish to be king, but in reality none can be it.

What then is the ultimate motor of human ascent? Is it the will for life? Happiness? The fulfillment of life? Union with God? Supreme consciousness?

Why has the universe or God or evolution created human life?

What can be my satisfactory answers to these momentous questions? I do not know, but of one thing I am sure: my reason, my science, my art, my love, my religion, my poetry and my philosophy are all a hymn of praise to the splendor of Creation and to the miracle of life.

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Rights of: Children,Women, IndigenousPeople
To Be Written: Rights of Nature, Birds, Animals, Fish, etc.

Daily Ray of Hope
Photo by Mark Stevens | Saguaro National Park, Arizona
Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses.
~ Ovid

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[GMW #4116] Progress - Not Building, Not Consuming, Not Traveling, Not Getting Richer, Not Growing

[GMW #4116] Progress - Not Building, Not Consuming, Not Traveling, Not Getting Richer, Not Growing   Idea Dream - Robert Muller's Ideas 3001 to 4000
~ Idea 4506 ~
Looking down at Los Angeles from the air it struck me that perhaps the time has come when not growing, not building, not consuming, not getting richer, not traveling and transporting enormous quantities of things and innumerable people will be called progress.

We must consider the Earth to be our real, biggest, essential, most valuable treasure.  Earthcapitalism should be the new ideology.

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

Intellectual qualities are superior to physical qualities; moral qualities are superior to intellectual qualities; and spiritual qualities are the highest of all. This is borne out by our daily observations:  a person endowed with a good physique and a fine mind is superior to one having only a good body; a person who has also good moral qualities is superior to the former; and most admirable is he or she who has a good physique, a great intelligence, a good heart and a soul in communion with all humanity, with God and the universe.

The same is true of any social group, from the family to the entire human race. Our present human family is still very imperfect because:

- it has not yet assured good physical lives to all its 6 billion members: more than a billion still go hungry;

- it has not yet provided for good mental lives for all: there are still 800 million illiterates;

- it has not yet become a moral world: there are still many wars, injustices, inequalities, violence, hatred, lies, miseducation, misinformation, corruption and dishonesty on our planet;

- it is not yet a spiritual world: we have mostly earthly, materialistic concerns and seldom lift our minds, hearts and souls to the universe and to the eternal stream of time.

Humanity has still a good way to go.

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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.

WORD FOR THE DAY
Great necessities call out great virtues.
~ Abigail Adams

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