After nearly 11,000 years of slow and hazardous development of civilization, since the emergence of Homo Sapiens from the rigors of the last ice age, with a 500-year climax of amazing scientific and cultural accomplishments, mixed together with stupendous political, technological and environmental blunders, all is about to be lost either by wars or the poisons of war, or by making the environment hostile to life and the consequent starvation of most people during the climatic upsets of possible descent into a new ice age.
Wise philosophers have for several generations proposed the necessity for a global government for Planet Earth, in order to achieve peaceful solutions to problems of inter-dependence, beneficial to all who find themselves living and struggling on this planet of such wonderful potentials.
At the end of world War II, many thinking people knew that Federal World Government was required as the political framework within which global and supra-national problems could be solved peacefully for the benefit of everybody including continuance of life-friendly conditions of the present inter-glacial period.
Instead, the tragic mistake was made of establishing a weak association of sovereign nations, repeating the mistakes of the League of Nations, with neither a fairly representative World parliament given authority to adopt world legislation to solve world problems, nor a world executive with authority to directly administer world legislation; and each nation retains the right to equip itself with military forces.
As a result, many extreme global problems have accumulated without solutions during the past 50 years, dominated by squandering many millions of dollars on nuclear and other arms races. To cope with these problems, the United Nations has been mostly helpless. Moreover, the United nations Charter is drawn in terms of obsolete precepts of national sovereignty in every article and paragraph, with control given to the five permanent members of the Security Council, so that the Charter cannot be amended nor strengthened to serve as the constitution for a proper global government. The only practical procedure is to completely replace the U.N. Charter with a new constitution for Federal World Government.
For replacement, some people coming together from all continents, apart from the United Nations, have gone ahead to design the specific details of the kind of world constitution which is needed to establish the political framework and procedures for a representative federal world government, under which the residents of Earth can manage their common affairs peacefully to serve the welfare of all.
The work of preparing this world constitution the CONSTITUTION FOR THE FEDERATION OF EARTH has gone forward in four sessions of a World Constituent Assembly in 1968, 1977, and 1980 and 1991. Also, work has proceeded in four sessions of a Provisional World Parliament in 1982, 1985, 1987, and 1996, under Article 19 of the Constitution for the Federation of Earth, to prepare world legislation to solve certain urgent problems.
The Constitution for the Federation of Earth is ready now for immediate ratification by the nations and people of Earth, and for immediate practical implementation. Recognizing that World Government is already many decades overdue, and that enormous problems have grown and festered and become more complex and difficult each year in the absence of any way to work out good solutions, every effort must be made to expedite ratification.
The world problems requiring solutions have been described so often that this Call will shift attention ahead to a few of the urgently needed solutions, which can be rapidly put into effect as soon as the Constitution for the Federation of Earth is ratified, and in some important respects even as soon as the first 25 countries have ratified. Early benefits under the Constitution for the Federation of Earth may include:
All nuclear weapons are immediately defused and then dismantled, under supervision of the World Disarmament Agency, and further testing and production prohibited.
All weapons of mass destruction, both large and small, are put under the control of the World Disarmament Agency, for rapid dismantling or conversion to peaceful uses, and further production and sale prohibited.
Most dangers of war and military dictatorship are thereby eliminated.
Priority is given to a globally coordinated program of several hundred billion dollars per year to deal with the climate crises. Comprehensive remedial action is based on an understanding of the extremes of both heat and cold and other climatic turbulences resulting from the "differential greenhouse effect," which is triggered primarily by excess carbon dioxide accumulations in the air and loss of Earths fertility thus threatening agriculture and world food supplies and civilization everywhere.
All former military personnel, and others, can be employed by a civilian Earth Rescue Corps to restore and conserve a life-sustaining environment on Earth; and to maintain the global commons of the oceans, atmosphere, rivers, forests, phytoplankton, fish, the ozone layer, biodiversity and other elements.
The new global financial system, using a global currency for accounting, will provide sufficient financial credit to employ everyone at peaceful work to supply human needs. Finances will be available for both public and private projects, simply on the basis of people available to work and viable plans for production, services, etc. -- no past savings are required.
Projects to supply the needs of people living in a country may receive priority over projects for international trade. The scramble for outside investors looking for quick profits or for loans tied to repayment from export earnings are both eliminated since past savings become irrelevant. Also ended as conditions for obtaining finances are, forced privatization or forced communalization, austerity measures, high interest, and curtailment of social welfare. Instead, standards will be defined for serving human welfare, payment of living wages, and environmental protection.
Human rights are protected everywhere, according to the guarantees and directive principles in the Constitution for the Federation of Earth.
Very rapid worldwide elimination of fossil fuels and of nuclear power is expedited, both technologically and financially. Rapid transition is made to solar, hydrogen, magnetic and other safe energy sources and equipment. Millions of jobs are created for the work of conversion to the new safe and environmentally friendly energy technology.
The oceans of Earth are owned and managed truly as the common heritage of humanity, and likewise the air space above the Earth.
The safe disposal of nuclear poisons and wastes, as well as other globally threatening toxic wastes, is put under strict control by the world government.
Technology transfers are assisted and expedited wherever helpful to serve peaceful human needs.
Planning guidelines are developed for the best uses of all natural resources of Earth, together with technological innovations, to serve the maximum human welfare of all inhabitants of Earth.
These are a few of the benefits to be derived from early ratification and implementation of the Constitution for the Federation of Earth.
All of the above is made possible by the careful design in the Constitution for the Federation of Earth for the World parliament composed of a House of Peoples, a House of Nations and a House of Counsellors, the World Executive with a five-member rotating Presidium responsible to the Parliament, the World Judiciary, the non-military enforcement system, the World Ombudsmus, the Integrative Complex, the agencies of the world Administration, and many other carefully designed provisions.
THEREFORE, THE FIFTH SESSION OF THE PROVISIONAL WORLD PARLIAMENT IS HEREBY CALLED, TO BE ORGANIZED UNDER ARTICLE 19 OF THE CONSTITUTION FOR THE FEDERATION OF EARTH, TO CONVENE FOR TWO WEEKS, OCTOBER 20 NOVEMBER 4, 2000, AT THE NEW OUAGADOUGOU CONVENTION CENTER, SYRTE, LIBYA, A COUNTRY WHICH OFFICIALLY WELCOMES THE PARLIAMENT.
THE AGENDA FOR THE FIFTH SESSION OF THE PROVISIONAL
WORLD PARLIAMENT OCTOBER 20 NOVEMBER 4, 2000, SHALL INCLUDE:
- Complete the first stage of ratification of the constitution for the Federation of Earth.
- Take drastic action to rapidly inaugurate Federal World Government under the Constitution for the Federation of Earth.
- Begin implementation of World Legislative Act Number One (with amendments as needed) for the world disarmament Agency.
- Begin implementation of World Legislative Act Number Three (with amendments as needed) for the ownership and management of the oceans and seabeds of Earth.
- Begin or expand implementation of World Legislative Act Number Six, as amended in 1996, for the Emergency Earth Rescue Administration, to cope with the climate crisis and other related environmental problems.
- Begin or expand implementation of World Legislative Act number eleven, as amended in 1996, for a new global finance system to serve both the public and the private sectors.
- Begin or expand implementation of the MANIFESTO for beginning world Government with more than 70% of Earth included. As approved in 1996.
- Design and begin implementation of world legislation for a comprehensive Global Energy Administration, to replace fossil fuels and nuclear power with energy technology which is environmentally safe and friendly to life.
- Establish the World Ombudsmus to protect human rights, as well as establish other agencies of the Integrative Complex, as defined in the Constitution for the Federation of Earth.
- Prepare for the next elections of delegates to the World Parliament, under a ratified Constitution for the Federation of Earth.
- Take any other actions which may be needed and feasible in year 2000.
TO COMPOSE THE YEAR 2000 PROVISIONAL WORLD PARLIAMENT,
DELEGATES ARE INVITED AND REQUESTED FROM BOTH
NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS OR NATIONAL PARLIAMENTS
AND FROM THE PEOPLE OF ALL COUNTRIES, AS FOLLOWS:
- DELEGATES FROM NATIONAL GOVERNMENTS OR NATIONAL PARLIAMENTS:
Delegates are invited from each national government or Parliament which recognizes the necessity for Federal World Government, and which is ready to ratify the Constitution for the Federation of Earth.
National governments, including national parliaments, may send from 1 to 10 delegates, on a voting basis of 1 vote for countries under 2,000,000 in population, 2 votes for countries from 2,000,000 to 10,000,000 population, 3 votes for countries from 10,000,000 to 50,000,000 population, 4 votes for countries from 50,000,000 to 100,000,000 population, and 5 votes for countries above 100,000,000 population.
Silent observers may be sent by national governments or parliaments not ready to ratify the Constitution for the Federation of Earth; but observers may become delegates upon decision to ratify made while at the Parliament.
- DELEGATES FROM PEOPLE:
All non-governmental organizations which are registered as participants in the Global Ratification and Elections Network, and which confirm support for the campaign for ratification of the Constitution for the Federation of Earth, are invited to send voting delegates on the following basis:
- for organizations of 10 to 50 members.
- for organizations of 50 to 200 members.
- for organizations of 200 to 500 members.
- for organizations of 500 to 1,000 members.
- for organizations of 1,000 to 5,000 members.
- for organizations of 5,000 to 50,000 members.
- for organizations of 50,000 to 300,000 members.
- for organizations of 300,000 to 1,000,000 members.
- for organizations of 1,000,000 to 2,000,000 members.
- for organizations exceeding 2,000,000 members.
In addition, independent Peoples Delegates may be accredited who obtain 500 or more verifiable signatures on approved election petitions.
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