O.K., a worldwide responsible Council, its organisation and its administration have some more to regard than corresponding institutions in a village. We have to extend the princips to the big tasks of worlds-scale.
These worldwide institutions have to ensure by common rules, laws and by appropriated means up to interventions-forces
how to handle dictatorship, law-less-situations or civil war like in
· Zimbabwe
· Myanmar
· Kongo
· Somalia
· Afganistan
how to regulate conflicts about territories, population-minorities
· Dafur
· Palestina
· Irak
how to regulate conflicts about natural resources like energy and water free of violence
how to protect human rights in the societies
how to distribute the world resources (Food, oil, water, minerals, etc.)
in common sense
how to organize effective help in natural catastrophes like we had to perceive and we are perceiving every year at
· Hurricanes
· Tsunamis
· Earthquakes
· Floods
· Droughts
· Fires
How handle financial affairs, economic disputes in order to avoid for example issues like the actual financial crisis
The necessary, from the big majority of the world’s population justified actions have to be transferred in reality. If not possible in another way the range of common interventions has to reach up to taking over administration and government in hopeless mismanaged countries and regions. Extreme situations like we experienced in Ruanda, in Darfur, in Bosnia, in Zimbabwe or in Congo isn’t worthy for mankind und must be prevented forever.
Not to act means to transfer much bigger problems into future.
Just having postulated these thoughts I will hear the cry of many many people from all sides of societies. I will be denounced as fantast, dreamer up to communist, but do we have alternatives? Shall we wait, until 10, 12, 15 Billions of people live on earth, consuming the rest of oil and minerals, burning the last woods, most of them living in worst conditions, heating up atmosphere, fighting against each other to survive?
Continue as we do in the moment isn’t a good choice.
So let’s go back to search a concept. Under what conditions the common responsibility can work on our planet? We already have big international organisations; the most important of it is the UNO. I think its foundation was already a huge step into the right direction and prevented in the past already the worst consequences in many worldwide conflicts.
But in spite of all success, it is not enough: its development isn’t proceeding, most of its members don’t want to strengthen the UN, most of its members fear of its sovereignty and its independence.
In knowledge of it we have to create a new organisation or, probable easier, to restructure the UNO, however we call it. We have to strengthen its competences in an appropriated manner. We need an UNO
With effective democratic structures. This structure has to ensure:
That minorities don’t feel suppressed by majorities
Common decisions should be only be taken by a big majority of all members of a world council (66%?) and a big majority of all countries in this council (66%?). This is an initial problem to solve. Concepts like the previewed double-majority in the European Union seem to be a good approach and have to be developed.
That only those items, issues and tasks are organized centrally, which are essential for the whole community
It is not necessary to define the shape of a banana, but it has to be defined commonly,
· that the banana isn’t poisoned
· that its production isn’t damaging environment
· that the workers on banana plantations get appropriated salaries,
· that the workers on banana-plantations are working under healthy conditions and have a minimum age.
It is not necessary to define, how a school looks like, how formation is organized. But it is necessary,
· that every child has the right to get a base formation costfree,
· that the teachers are paid sufficiently,
· that the knowledge of a young adult leaving school is coming up to a certain, common standard
We need a lean UNO with appropriated salaries of its deputies and its staff. It is not necessary to pay UNO-deputies and officers better or to give them better pensions than members of local parliaments. The numbers of deputies should be also limited.
We need an UNO with direct election of deputies. Every deputy must learn to present his person and ideas to his voters
We need an UNO with effective administration. We have to ensure, that taxpayers money isn’t wasted. Its principles must be researched and developed steadily, effectiveness must be measured and compared, different ways must be tested. The biggest danger of administration is getting bigger and bigger, is getting uneffective, is getting an unflexible moloch. In most countries of the world the missing effectivity of administration is reducing the development-potential of societies. Bad working administrations are one of biggest obstacles for getting acceptance of majorities of populations.
We need an UNO with all decision-competences concerning the global resources, mainly for clima, environment, energy, row-materials
Oil, water, raw-materials woods must become public property, its exploitation and use can only be transferred to private companies under strict rules regarding the wide public interests. Of course land-owners have to be compensated, if oil, gaz, minerals are exploited from it.
Interferences in nature (digs, dams, deforestation) have to be centrically checked to their influences to clima and people’s living-conditions
We need an UNO with all intervention-competences concerning local conflicts and crisis’s
· Economic supports up to interventions for poorest regions
· Administration-interventions for mismanaged regions
· Juristical interventions, when local jurisdiction fails
· Police-interventions, when local government isn’t capable to keep up public peace and keep in common rules and laws
· Military interventions, when different local governments start to try to regulate their conflicts with violent means
· Catastrophic help in case of any natural catastrophes. The actual help in such case is far too slow and not powerful enough. Effective organized and best equipped with all necessary technical, financial and personal means we could avoid a multiple number of dead or hurt people in every natural catastrophe, especially in the poor regions.
We need an UNO with sustainable intervention-concepts. We cannot intervene with half-heart. If world-community decides to intervene it must take all consequences, as costly it is. Military actions can only be the first, small part of it. To build up a functioning local government, local administration, local economy and local social structure is the big jump. The fiasco in Afghanistan shows that even this expensive engagement is far away being enough to stabilize a region out of control.
We need an UNO with effective intervention-forces, selected, trained and prepared in optimal manner. It makes no sense to send Personal into a region or country without being deeply trained and prepared for it.
We need an UNO with effective politics against overpopulation. Overpopulation is behind the danger of an atomic world war the biggest threat for mankind
· Overpopulation increases the environmental problems
· Overpopulation will lead to conflicts about natural resources
· Overpopulation will weaken all efforts to finance and to build up a social system in underdeveloped countries as presumption for effective birth-control
The mostly posed question will be, how to afford, how to pay world-community, a new UNO with the tasks mentioned above? We have to regard global spendings as a whole and I see following main sources of money:
Conversion of all local military dispenses into world-development dispenses
Conversion of repair-costs for environmental catastrophes
Conversion of repair-costs for consequences of wars and riots
Boost of economy by huge global projects and investments, which are only possible under stable politic structures for example
· In Energy distribution-networks, for example big solar-power-plants in the Sahara and transferring-devices as ultra-conductors to Europe and to the rest of Africa
· In water distribution-networks, for example big water lines connecting dry and wet regions in all regions of the world
Taxes from new prospering regions
Taxes from old industrial regions by economic growth at bigger regions
A wordwide tax-system with unique tax-rates which make it impossible to evade taxes
A wordwide tax-system which express an appropriate balance between the need of incentives for skills, hard work and diligence, and the need of sufficient contribution to community. I guess this rate has to start nearly at zero for low incomes with linear increase up to an average tax-rate of fifty percent for the higher incomes starting with 250.000 Euros annual income.
What’s the way to come to it
First of all we have to learn that’s necessary and unevitable to have a common vision about a world we want to live in:
We have to work at all political and social levels to make the worldwide interactions transparent and to explain and to convince that everybody’s welfare and future is depending of our willingness and capability to approach to worldwide common sense and government.
We need a common world-consciousness and we need it as a common goal to work on it. Some common goals are already postulated in some single areas (postulation to global rules for economic affairs, financial affairs, environmental affairs) but it is never done as a whole common goal. Environmental, economic and financial goals cannot be achieved as single issues, they must be embedded into solutions for urgent worldwide problems like wars, riots, overpopulation, poorness.
In the moment most people want to close their eyes for the consequences leading to world-government. Well situated people fear
· To lose their welfare
· To lose their living-quality
· To lose their freedom
Therefore we have to take them their fears and to face them with the consequence of proceeding on like we do momentaneously:
· To lose environment, visible in increasing natural catastrophic
· To lose their welfare by increasing demands for military to protect against the poor part of the world
· To lose their freedom because bigger parts of the world will be confronted with riots, wars and unsafe societies and regions
And to convince them of the advantages when approaching our common goal
· Free movement overall on the globus
· Reduction of environmental risks, better living-quality
· Economic welfare because of a big functioning world-market
Personal safety in all regions
Once accepted as common goal in our societies and in our political class the work on the restructuration of this new UNO can start at all levels of politics. Even then the work on it will only proceed in small steps and will take much time.
I hope we don’t wait until big catastrophes on world show even the last doubters again and again that we don’t have another choice in our big village, in our world.
