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Contact: Robert Muller via e mail: bgaughenmu@aol.com Web
Address: www.robbertmuller.org La Casa de Maria in Santa Barbara, California, was the
place we met in 1994 during an event called THE BIG PICTURE
SUMMIT. On the third day, I was delivering a speech
describing the public relations we could use to get the
world's media to write about the theme of the summit: "How
we could get the world to see the big picture." I noted that on 11 July 1994 there would be 2000 days
before the year 2000. An interesting fact which may inspire
the media. "What if we wrote one idea a day from now until
2000, we would have 2000 ideas and I would publish the book
2000 Ideas for a Better World. Robert Muller was in
the audience and stood up and said, "I will do it." And so Robert began to write ideas based on his more than
50 years of working on the problems of the world at the
United Nations and now at the University for Peace in Costa
Rica. Sometimes he wrote one a day or several depending on
what he was thinking about and on all world subjects from
human rights to water pollution and the solutions. In a
plane, a restaurant, church or the car, he wrote ideas.
Today the miracle of 2000 ideas have turned into 4000 in 10
published volumes. I know because I married this idea man 5 years ago and
together we work to make this Earth the true paradise it was
meant to be. The document you have in your hands took over 3 yews to
develop, edit and perfect and we give it to you, one of our
precious leaders and world thinkers, for reflection, reading
and possible implementation. We look forward to bearing from you and to watching THE
ABSOLUTE, URGENT NEED FOR PROPER EARTH GOVERNMENT use our
resources and skills to bring peace and harmony to our
Earth's inhabitants and Nature. October 24, 2002 To Dr. Robert Muller Rosalynn and I are pleased to congratulate you on
receiving the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation's 2002 World
Citizenship Award. Since your prizewinning essay on world
governance, written 54 years ago, you have devoted much of
your life to the peacekeeping efforts of the United Nations,
directly assisting three secretaries general. Your schools
and books emphasize the increasing importance of global
education. Your courageous leadership for peace is certainly
worthy of this fine recognition. With warm best wishes, Sincerely, Jimmy Carter Dr. Robert Muller God: I: THE UNITED NATIONS MUST BE VASTLY STRENGTHENED TO RESOLVE
THE MAJOR GLOBAL PROBLEMS HENCEFORTH INCREASINGLY
CONFRONTING HUMANITY AND THE EARTH. IT MUST BE EMPOWERED TO
ADOPT AND ENFORCE WORLD LAWS AND REGULATIONS. I recommend that the UN General Assembly should meet
again urgently at the heads of states level and that one of
them will stand up and say to his assembled peers: "The
world of sovereign nations is in disarray. The Earth, our
vital air, waters, nature, vegetation and many species which
it took millions of years to form, our climate are in
jeopardy. All this will end in a global disaster without
precedent, if we do not react with urgency, vision and
audacity. I appeal to you, I beg you, I implore you, let us put
aside all other items on the world agenda and keep only this
fundamental one: to have this General Assembly of heads of
states remain in session day and night if necessary, until
we give birth to a new political system for our miraculous
planet and our sacred human family. Please stand up,
delegates of the world, hold each other's hand and let us
swear together that we will accomplish this historical
miracle before it is too late: to save this Earth, to save
humanity with a new world order. All the rest is secondary.
Let us strengthen and reform the United Nations into a
United States of the World or a World Union like the
European Union. Let us perform this miracle in the House of
Mica, on the shores of the River of the Rising Sun,
wherefrom our indigenous brethren prophecized that a
civilization of peace will extend to the entire world." I offer further below a framework within which the work
for the creation of a proper Earth government can be
undertaken immediately. "Nothing is so powerful as an IDEA whose TIME has come" -
Victor Hugo Gary Davis, is a US pilot whom I saw camping at the
Bridge of Kehl between France and Germany in Strasbourg in
1948 refusing to show a passport because he considered
himself a world citizen, dismayed as he was for having
bombed German cities and killed women and children during
the war. I proposed to his World Citizens Foundation to
create a world-wide alliance of all organizations,
associations, and citizen's movements which are in favor of
world government. And since world government has been
downgraded by a systematic campaign of extreme right parties
claiming that it would lead to dictatorship, I recommend to
use the words proper Earth government. I also proposed that
there should be an honor roll of world personalities who
throughout history have recommended world government and
global citizenship. He sent me the following impressive list
which should be widely known*: The following prominent individuals have advocated world
government and/or world *The World Government Institute, Gledoux Terrace, South
Burlington, VI 05403 During my fifty-three years of global service with the
United Nations I was particularly struck by the following
factors in the world situation: Still missing or underdeveloped are: From 1945 to the early 1970's: a comprehensive,
unprecedented period of Humanism (avoid wars, prevent
early childhood deaths, eradicate epidemics, increase the
well-being of all humans, defend universal human rights, put
an end to colonialism, apartheid and racism, increase
literacy, longevity and good health, help the handicapped,
etc.) 1970's: while the agendas of the preceding period were
still unfulfilled and were overtaken by the world population
explosion, a new major world concern came to the fore,
namely the Environment (UNESCO's World Biosphere
Conference in 1968 and the UN World Conference on the
Environment in Stockholm in 1972), in other words: we humans
on one side and the Earth and nature around us. 1980's: the new phenomenon of the depletion of the
ozonosphere and menacing climate changes made the
Earth priority No. 1 of our concerns and reduced
economic development to "sustainable economic
development". This represents a fundamental change in the evolution of
this planet. From now on the world will never be the same.
This is why we should no longer speak of World Government,
but of Earth Government, the wise management, saving and
preservation of our planetary home of which we are an
integral part and whose further evolution now depends
largely on us. *I apologize to those readers who have acquired the
preceding volumes of my ideas and dreams, for the repetition
here of basically the same text as that in Volume IV, pages
135 to 155. But that text is so fundamental that it cannot
be repeated enough. I made it therefore my concluding
proposals The UN Charter of 1945 does not use the words Earth,
nature, natural resources and the environment. Why? Because
at that time we considered the Earth to be unlimited in
resources for a relatively small world population. The
western countries also saw, and still see humanity as
separate and superior to the natural world. This view has
accomplished wonders for the human race. But humanity must
now change its course, dominant objectives, values,
institutions and laws if we want to prevent disasters in the
further evolution of the Earth and of the human race. Today our objectives and efforts must be: During this period the rich countries and the rich in all
countries became richer and the poor countries and the poor
in all countries became poorer for the following
reasons:* The rich people thanks to savings, inheritance and
business can invest their money in banks, stock-markets,
mutual funds, retirement plans or in business ventures; many
people do not have to work anymore to get richer; The poor cannot save much or anything to put in banks,
stock markets, mutual funds, retirement plans or to engage
in business, and as a result remain poor. The rich countries have the monopoly of inventions and
patents, huge capitals accumulated over the years, sell
highly elaborated, sophisticated goods at high prices to the
poor countries from which they buy primary products at low
prices. Investments, marketing techniques and advertisement
are also extended to the latter countries to make huge
profits and gain new consumer markets for the rich
countries. Moreover poor countries and poor people have the highest
number of children. Poverty elimination must therefore
become a major factor in stemming the population explosion
and vice versa. Since 1945 the needs, injustices and complaints of
humanity, especially of the poor countries, have been high
on the agenda of the United Nations. Recently the UN has
held a World Social Summit on all these problems in
Copenhagen and launched a United Nations Decade for the
Eradication of Poverty, 1997-2006. Regarding the newcomer in the age of global
preoccupations, namely the Earth, we must listen to her too
and respond to her complaints. If the Earth could speak she
would say: Why did I have to take all of a sudden a population
increase from 2.5 billion people in 1952 to 6.1 billion
today (2000), more than a doubling in less than fifty
years? We could answer as an excuse: it happened out of sheer
ignorance. After the war the rich countries and the United
Nations wanted to prevent the early death of innumerable
children in the poor countries. They died young because of
epidemics, bad health conditions, malnutrition and hunger.
But having no population statistics for the world and for
most of these countries, we did not tell the parents that
they would no longer need to give birth to an average of six
children per family to have at least two left to till the
land and to take care of their old age. Until 1952 we did
not even know what the world population was! When the UN
organized for the first time in human history decent global
statistics and world censuses, we discovered that women did
not have more children, but that children no longer died
early (the mortality rate fell from 34 per thousand to 14
per thousand). When this was discovered it was too late, the
children were born and a young population is highly
reproductive. The UN warned nations and humanity by means of
world population conferences and every other possible means
that a world population explosion was upon us. But religions
and other factors opposed it. Nevertheless, these efforts
saved you from 2.2 billion more humans on your surface by
the year 2000. Instead of 8.3 billion human beings in that
year we are only 6.1 billion. *The Secretary General of the UN reported to the 1997 UN
General Assembly that 100 nations on this planet have become
poorer in the last fifteen years and that 1.3 billion people
of this Earth have a daily income of only one dollar. The Earth: Our answer: The UN's latest forecasts of the world population in 2050
are: a total world population of 8.91 billion, of which 1.16
billion (a decline of 40 million) in the rich countries and
7.75 billion (an increase of 3.05 billion) in the poor
countries. The Earth: The Earth would have other complaints, she could ask for
example: WHY EACH MINUTE And the Earth could go on. She could say: "I regret to have no total figure on what you dump into
the seas and oceans which cover 71 percent of my body and
contain the largest number of longest living of my species.
US industries and cities dump an estimated 6.4 trillion
gallons of waste and sewage into the oceans every year. I heard her also murmur: "I almost wish that you humans would put coloring
materials in the exhausts of your cars and airplanes to see
what you add to the air which goes into your lungs and which
I made so pure for you. Thank God, it begins to show in the
form of smog over your cities." The Earth would further say: The UN Charter does not even mention me or my nature,
natural resources, or the environment. But since the 1972
Stockholm Conference on the environment and the 1992 Rio de
Janeiro Earth Summit you have begun to look into my
miseries. You have created a UN Environment Program and an
Earth Council, and you are drafting an Earth Charter, a
Declaration of my rights. I hear that next you will take up
the drafting of a universal declaration of human
responsibilities. Ministries of the Environment have sprung
up in almost all countries. I thank you for that. But alas,
the UN's recommendations have been often ignored and most
poorly implemented, as was revealed by your 1997 Special
General Assembly to review the situation. Why don't you
transform the UN into an Earth Organization, in which humans
and nature would cooperate for the optimum fulfillment and
survival of both, and make me the most beautiful and
flourishing planet in the whole universe? She would add: And why do you have 556 militaries, 85 doctors and only
one world servant per 100,000 Earth inhabitants? Yes, why, why, why... It is to these fundamental global Earth challenges, in
addition to the unresolved human ones, that the world
community must address itself as we enter the 21st century
and new millennium. It is a vast subject which reaches from the individual to
local, city, provincial, state, national, regional,
continental and international, global levels, including the
world's commons (the seas and oceans, the atmosphere, the
ozonosphere, the moon and outer-space). It is a vast subject also regarding the means of action:
institutions, law, financial resources, taxation, human
talent and resources, and the proper education and
cooperation of more than 6 billion human individuals on this
planet. Since globalization is the primary evolutionary
phenomenon, challenge and opportunity of our time, it
obviously raises the extremely important question of the
type, role, structure, strength and resources of the world
system. And since the Earth is in peril and the greatest part of
humanity is still in misery, the remedies must be audacious
and strong, even if they seem irrealistic or difficult to
accept by those in power. We must stretch our minds and
hearts to the dimension of the problems. As President
Roosevelt wrote in his own hand on the day before his death
for the speech he was to deliver at the opening of the San
Francisco Conference convened to give birth to the United
Nations: In my view, after fifty-three years of service in the
United Nations system, all the above points to the utmost
urgency and absolute necessity for proper Earth
government. This should become the priority item number one on the
agenda of world affairs at our entry into the third
millennium. The poor countries who have been waiting so long
for world justice should be the first to request it after 50
years of promises from the rich countries. There is no shadow of a doubt that the present political
and economic systems &endash; if systems they
are&endash;&endash; are no longer appropriate and will lead
to the end of life evolution on this planet. We must
therefore absolutely and urgently look for new ways. The
less we loose time, the less species' and nature will be
destroyed. I would urge therefore that consideration be given to the
following avenues: to hold a World Conference on Proper Earth Government
through the Free Market System Since business was the first to globalize itself
world-wide, far beyond governments, and since corporations
are now for all practical purposes ruling the world, we
should give them the opportunity, even request them to
assess their full responsibility for the future of all
humanity, all living species and of the Earth herself and
prove to us the validity of their claim that the free market
can do it all. The world corporate community should be asked to answer
how they would take care of the above complaints of the
Earth, how they would provide for a well-preserved planet
and the well-being of all humanity, full employment, the
renewal of natural resources, the long-term evolution of the
planet and continuation of life on it, the real democracy of
the consumers in a corporate power and wealth economy. Such a conference would bring together the heads of the
major 180 world companies, banks and stock-exchanges, the
World Bank, the IMF, the ILO, the GATT, the new World Trade
Organization, the International Chamber of Commerce and
similar organizations. to ensure proper Earth government through a second
generation United Nations for the 21st century Since the United Nations is the only world-wide,
universal organization at present available, since it had
fifty-three years of valuable experience and many successes,
since it paved the way to proper Earth government, instead
of putting it on the defensive, unjustified attacks and
criticism, reduction of resources and non-payment of
obligatory contributions, governments should honestly ask
themselves if a better way would not be to consider a second
generation United Nations upgraded by a true quantum jump
into a proper Earth preserving and human well-being and
justice ensuring organization of our planet. Such a conference would have at its disposal many
proposals and ideas for the strengthening of the UN made by
various UN bodies, governments, Secretaries General, World
Commissions, outside organizations and retired elders like
myself. I have formulated mine in my Testament to the
UN and in these 4000 ideas and dreams for a better
world. I recommend the urgent holding of a UN Charter Review
Conference and second Bretton Woods Conference to assess the
United Nations system's role, potentialities and substantial
strengthening to cope with the critical issues and needs of
the Earth and of humanity in the future. A Charter review
conference would moreover give a voice to 134 governments of
the present 189 members, which did not participate in the
drafting of the Charter and creation of the UN. If a Charter
review conference is vetoed by the big powers, these 134
governments should hold their own conference and offer the
world a new draft Charter. They owe it to their people and
to world democracy. There is no doubt that given the massive changes which
have taken place since 1945, an Organization created 53
years ago can simply not be adequate to deal effectively
with the mounting, unprecedented and massive world problems
of a new century and new evolutionary phase of our
planet. a New Philadelphia World Convention for the Creation
of the United States of the World The star-performance, often called "miracle" of the
American States in the Constitutional Convention in
Philadelphia 200 years ago which put an end to a similar
political chaos in North America between numerous, sovereign
independent states at the time, should be repeated. Such a Convention of all nations would review the state
of world democracy and would have to add to the system of
balance of powers the new dominant power of business and the
immense, global new claims of the Earth for her and our
salvation. "Philadelphia II" is a project of US Senator Mike Gravel
who proposes a convention for the writing of a charter for a
Global Constitution. In this regard, we might well apply to the present world
these words by George Washington concerning the political
chaos which reigned in North America at his time, replacing
in it the word state by national: "The primary cause of all disorders lies in the different
state governments and in the tenacity of that power which
pervades the whole of their systems." a World Conference of all world federalist and world
government associations and movements, to propose a federal
constitution and system for the Earth An immense work has been accomplished by the World
Federalist Association headed by Sir Peter Ustinov, by its
national associations and many other world government
movements. There exist already several draft World
Constitutions. World philanthropists should sponsor a World
Conference or other ways to come up with a world
constitution for the 21st century. We may remember that
during World War I, Andrew Carnegie brought over to the US
two Belgian scholars who drafted the statutes of the League
of Nations and earned the Nobel Prize for it. Contemporary
philanthropists should be inspired by such examples.
According to UNESCO only 15 percent of philanthropy is
international and most of it is bilateral. When the global
world and the human family are in greatest need, they are
the orphans of philanthropy. And is it so inconceivable that two big federal countries
like the United States and Russia might take the initiative
of calling a world conference for the establishment of a
global federal government in their image? After the cold
war, what a warm spring, a spring of truly united nations
this would be for our precious planet! a World Conference for the creation of a World Union
on the pattern of the European Union The world has recently witnessed another political
miracle, similar to the American miracle in Philadelphia:
the miracle of Strasbourg, the birth of the European Union
of 15 European countries which have finally put an end to
their antagonisms and wars, decided to unite and cooperate
and have abolished the borders between them. Every European
can now settle anywhere in the Union, elect a European
Parliament at the same time when electing his national
Parliament, and can have his governmentcondemned by a
supra-national European Court of Human Rights when his
rights are violated. Also, the European Union has its own
European budget and tax system and is not dependent on
national contributions as is the United Nations. In 1990 the
European Economic Community had already a budget of 7.4
billion dollars, ten times the UN budget for all its world
activities. This example is so hopeful, so powerful, so
novel and inspiring that I recommend it as an outstanding
model or guidelight for more regional communities and for
the entire globe. It is significant that the European Parliament has called
for the setting up under the auspices of the United Nations,
of an International Environmental Court and a World
Environment Agency, of which the European Environment Agency
would be a regional branch. It also wants that consideration
be given to the setting up of a Parliamentary Consultative
Assembly within the UN. We should wholeheartedly support
these proposals. I recommend that the European Union organize meetings and
conferences with outside countries to show them how they can
move towards regional unions and how a World Union can be
established. This would render a great service to the world
and to the UN General Assembly. a World Conference of the planet's five continents for
a Proper Earth Government through continental Unions and a
World Union About ten years ago or more, I suggested to President
Bush that in view of the creation of the European Union, the
American countries from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego should
create an all-American community or union. He listened to me
but instead of creating that community in a common, joint
effort of all American countries, as was done in Europe, the
US negotiated separate trade agreements first with Canada,
then with Mexico, and then the Latin American countries
created their own Mercosur (the Southern Latin American
market) and the future of an American Union is in doubt. It might be noteworthy that indigenous people of the
Americas believe in a prophecy according to which the Eagle
and the Condor will meet on sacred Mount Rasur in Costa Rica
from which a civilization of peace and nature will spread to
the entire world. It is on that hill that the dream of the
demilitarization of Costa Rica was born, where the United
Nations created the first University for Peace on this
planet, and the Earth Council created by the Rio de Janeiro
Conference on the environment, as well as the International
Radio for Peace. Simon Bolivar, for his part, in his dreams,
prophecized that someday the capital of the world will be
located in Central America. The continental approach to a world union remains an
important avenue. One could conceive five continental
unions: the European Union, an American, an African, an
Asian, and an Australian Union. A World Union could be
constructed as a super-structure and common political system
of the five continents. a World Conference on Earth and Human Government
through new bio-political modes patterned on examples from
nature A very novel approach to the organization of humanity and
its proper relations with the Earth and nature is to follow
the biological models offered by the formation and admirable
functioning of numerous colonies of cells, bacteria and
living species observable in nature and now well studied.
This is a very advanced science which opens up the most
interesting and promising vistas. A bio-political science
can and should now be rapidly developed on its basis. It
would offer a very much needed bio-political revolution of
the Earth' political system and science. Here the Earth and
nature would come to their full preeminence and rights. All
other world governmental avenues will sooner or later lead
to it. First models are already the bio-regional approaches
existing in certain areas of the world such as the Arctic
Forum and the big river basins and mountain chains
cooperative agreements. Beyond this bio-regional vision and approach is the idea
and proposal of Barbara Gaughen-Muller to create a United
Nature, a transformed United Nations to respond to the
fundamental unity of nature of which humans are part. Humans
would not dominate nature but cooperate with her and learn
from her. It is probably the most advanced, timely and
imaginative vision of the total, proper functioning of
planet Earth. The Natural Law Party created by British scientists,
which exists already in 100 countries and has become the
third largest party in the United States could be the
spearhead of this new approach. See the book by the
President of the US Natural Law Party, physicist Dr. John
Hagelin: Manual for a Perfect Government. How to harness
the laws of nature to bring maximum success to governmental
administration. Maharishi University, Fairfield, Iowa
52557 a World Conference on proper Earth government through
what the world's religions have in common in terms of
universal, global spirituality and world-wide human
experience Last, but not least, humanity has reached a point when we
must consider our human presence, past, present and future
on this particular planet in the universe. We have now a
tremendous information on the universe in which we live. In
addition to our total consciousness of our Earth and its
global evolution we are also now acquiring and developing a
cosmic consciousness of the universe. This is one of the
greatest advances in human history. But the mysteries of
infinity and eternity will probably remain beyond human and
scientific grasp. This has the result of bringing together
the spirituality or basic "faiths" of the religions and
science. God, the gods or the Great Spirit or Spirits and
their emissaries, prophets and human incarnations like Jesus
gave humanity at its early stages a cosmic, universal,
all-encompassing faith or feeling for the mysteries of the
cosmos, for the norms of love and for the miracle of life
and norms of behavior between all humans, other species and
nature. These messages or "revelations" should not be
neglected. They contain some of the profoundest answers to
human behavior, fulfillment and survival. Great was our
astonishment in the environmental crisis to discover the
wisdom and rules of behavior towards nature dictated by the
Great Spirit to the indigenous people of this planet, and
towards Creation in practically all religions. The world's
5000 religions are filled with incredible wisdom regarding
human morality, belief in life, environmental adaptations,
survival and future evolution. This is strongly coming to
the fore at this time in the following: Global religious cooperation towards a world spiritual
Renaissance is accelerating. In recent years, Erika Erdmann, the research aide and
Librarian of Nobel Prize winner Roger Sperry, and Professor
Jean-Claude Leonide, a reputed French anthropologist
undertook a survey of long-term evolutionary scientists
which showed that scientists were becoming more optimistic
as a result of the birth of a global consciousness which
makes us humans aware of our mistakes and problems and helps
us solve them by changing course and adapting to new
evolutionary requirements. Their survey revealed that the
theory of "chaos" according to which the universe and human
life make no sense is losing ground. The new theory is that
on any planet having life in the cosmos one species sooner
or later evolves to a point of gaining a total knowledge of
the planet it lives on. It will then be in its power either
to continue evolution or to bring it to an end. The first
course will require that the former values of that species,
values not respectful of the new phase of evolution, must be
replaced by new ones which cater to evolution. These new
values are a major new evolutionary imperative. In my view and in theirs, humanity has reached that stage
on Planet Earth: we must revise our basic values dating from
the 19th and early twentieth century and acquire a new
evolutionary wisdom which respects nature, the Earth and
their basic laws. If nature has produced the incredible,
sophisticated variety of innumerable living species around
us, each one a true miracle, it is simply not possible that
the human species is not a miracle too, perhaps the most
advanced of all. We are no longer our own objective. We have
become the caretakers, the trustees, the shapers of future
evolution, the instruments of the cosmos, integral parts of
it, as we have already recognized of late to be of the
Earth. The future of the Earth will be bright and life will not
become extinct if we decide so at the beginning of a new
century and millennium. We are entering a thrilling,
transcending new global, cosmic phase of evolution in the
line indicated by Teilhard de Chardin, the anthropologist,
if the human species understands its suddenly momentous, incredibly important evolutionary
role and responsibility. The preceding requires that all basic segments of human
life on Earth be reviewed and rethought from scratch in the
21st century. These are: Such reconsideration is taking place currently in a whole
series of institutions and conferences around the world. We
can therefore be optimistic about our future as we enter a
new century and millennium. With our human concern for the phenomenon of
globalization must also come a growing concern for the
future, a long-term future, a new phenomenon which I would
call "futurization". Having recently attended as a member of an international
advisory board, a conference on Humanity and the Earth in
the year 3000 by a new Foundation for the Future created
in Bellevue, Washington by two firms of outer space
satellite and stations construction, I was deeply impressed
how all things earthly and human must be seen in their
globality and interdependence when considered from a
long-term point of view. Alas, political thinking today most
of the time does not go beyond the next elections. We do not
heed the Iroquois' custom not to take any decision without
thinking of its effects on the seventh generation. I therefore recommend that all governments should create
a Ministry of the Future and that the United Nations should
create a main committee on the Future in the General
Assembly to receive yearly reports from all UN specialized
agencies and world programs on the long-term future. The
Foundation for the Future has held in 2000 a meeting of 100
eminent long-term scientists and visionaries to provide a
view of what the Earth and humanity are likely to be in the
year 3000 under various conditions. Such long-term thinking
and envisioning must become an important component of proper
Earth government. Also to be noted is the prestigious Millennium Project of
the United Nations University in Tokyo designed to assist in
organizing futurists, scholars and policy makers in 60
countries who work for UN organizations, corporations,
governments, universities and non-governmental
organizations. After my many years as a global servant I have come to
believe that our future peace, justice, fulfillment,
happiness and harmony on this planet will depend in the 21st
century and third millennium, beyond proper Earth
government, on divine or cosmic government, meaning that we
must seek and apply the "natural", "evolutionary", "divine",
"universal", "cosmic" laws which must rule our journey on
this particular, miraculous planet in the vast universe.
After global government, we will discover government
according to the laws of nature, and will then discover that
these are solar laws which themselves are cosmic laws of the
universe. We are on the threshold of an extraordinary,
mind-boggling, new age of our human progress and evolution
on planet Earth if we do not stick to obsolete beliefs,
values, systems, institutions and laws. As Leibniz said when the exact sciences were born:
"Humanity will now be busy dissecting and analyzing reality
for hundreds of years, but the time will come when it will
be lost in so much detail and findings that it will have to
acquire again a total, global view of reality." That
"holistic" age has come. The table which follows, derived from the Copernican,
meta-biological, almost cosmic work of the United Nations,
gives a glance of this total view in space and in time. for Planetary and Cosmic Consciousness (This section is not yet complete, check back
later!) In the final analysis the main function of education
and the media is to make children and adults happy,
fulfilled universal beings with full planetary and made
consciousness. The future of humanity requires a Laszlo Ervin
a of the Club of Budapest dramatically Un part of one big. big, hman family, hope to bring
about peace and happiness. - The Dalai Lama winner of
the Nobel Peace Prize · the infinitely large: the universe, the stars,
outerspace THE HUMAN FAMILY Quantitative Characteristics · the total world population and its changes · Human geography and migrations · Human longevity · Races · Sexes · Children · Youth Adults the elderly The handicapped Qualitatie Characteristics · Our Levels of nutrition · Our levels of health · Our standards of life (rich/poor) · Our skills and employment · Our levels of education · Our moral levels · Our spiritual levels · Regional organizations · World organizations OUR PLACE IN TIME The Universe Past Future Our biosphere, etc Future Religions Information on Physical Human Life on Physical Human
Life H~ I* · To see, to hear, to observe, to create, to do, to
use well all our senses capabilities vastly extended by
science and technoloogy · Information on Our Mental Life M W Bfi, Moral Life Lift Our Spiritual Life spwaw Life of the Universe and God. Robert Muller and Barbara Gaughen Muller My most recent conviction is that the world's survival
requires an enormously strengthened second generation United
Nations, or a UN transformed progressively into a World
Union on the model of the European Union, or a United States
of the World on the great precedent of the United States or
a United Nature without precedent. On the eve of a new
century and millennium it is a matter of utmost urgency, of
life or death. Yes, by writing my 4000 ideas and dreams for a better
world, I have come to the same conclusions I held as a young
man after World War II, that we absolutely need a proper
Earth government, far beyond the United Nations. Not to do
it at the entrance of a new century and millennium would be
unbelievable and unforgivable by our future generations and
might irreversibly jeopardize our entire future. Fifty years later we should remember these lines which
Franklin Roosevelt wrote to the San Francisco Conference
creating the United Nations. "The work, my friends is peace: more than an end of this
war &endash; an end to the beginning of all wars. I ask you
to keep up your faith. The only limit to our realization of
tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward
with a strong and active faith." God: You forgot to mention two important recent efforts which
failed: a World Commission of Eminent Personalities on
Global Governance met under the Chairmanship of Mr. Ingvar
Carlsson, former Prime Minister of Sweden in 1994 and
recommended "the General Assembly should agree to hold a
World Conference on Governance in 1998, with its
decisions to be ratified and put into effect by 2000. That
will allow more than two years for the preparatory process."
No action whatsoever was taken by the UN General Assembly on
these recommendations. Secondly, the year 2000 General Assembly of heads of
states level had the following task on its agenda: "to focus
on means to solve our primary global problems and to reform
the means of global governance in order to meet the
challenges of the 21st century." Again the General Assembly did nothing. Under these circumstances I cannot accept that you
consider your 4000 ideas to be the end. You should, you must
continue and work hard on implementation. I will help you
from heaven, creating the right circumstances and ensuring
that your ideas and efforts will be known at the right,
highest world levels." I: God: November 2002: the 5000 ideas and dreams are finished and
will be issued as Volumes X and XI in January 2003. Though believing that the duties of the UN should remain
the prevention of war at and aggression, the promotion of
collective security and the peaceful settlement of disputes,
Parliament emphasized the need for rapid and efficient
reform of the organization, updating its aims and improving
its working. Parliament also considered the Union's
involvement in the Work of the United Nations and its
specialized agencies inadequate. It saw a vital need to
define precisely and unambiguously the principles on which
decisions on UN intervention were based, place peace keeping
units under the sole responsibility of the UN Secretary
General, change the rules governing the distribution of
humanitarian aid, recognize the universal validity of the
right to intervene on humanitarian grounds and provide the
UN with the human, financial and technical resources needed
to implement its decisions effectively. Parliament also suggested that the General Assembly could
be more closely associated with the decisions of the
Security Council, which should be made to reflect more
accurately the wlities of the modern world. it argued that
once all the necessary institutional steps had been taken
for the establishment of a common foreign and security
policy, consideration should be given it) granting the Union
the status of full member of the General Assembly and a
permanent scat on the Security Council. Parliament also called for the setting up, under the
auspices of the UN, of an Intentional Err, Environment Court
and a World Environment ironment Agency, of which the
European Environment ironment Agnecy would be the regional
branch. It also wanted indigenous peoples to be better
represented at the UN and consideration to be given to the
possibility of setting up a Parliamentary Consul
Consultative c Assembly N within the UN.* Adopted on 8 February 1994 1998: these these very er3 important recommendations from
the peoples' ' representatives es of 16 European countries
at the European Parliament ha received little, if any
attention. They should be placed official IN, on the agenda
of the UN.
Dear Reader, After 55 years of world service with the United
Nations and the UN University for Peace in Costs Pica, I
gave you above my main ideas and proposals concerning the
fate and future of humanity and of the Earth. I recommend that in every office of heads of
states, in all public libraries, University libraries and
head offices of the media and corporations in the world, the
following books should be available: the present pamphlet on The Absolute, Urgent Need for
Proper Earth Government my 5000 Ideas and Dreams for
a Better World my Testament to the United Nations the three volumes of World Problem and Human
Potential, an Encyclopedia of 10,233 world problems
collected by the Union of International Associations in
Brussels, Belgium, published by KG SAUR Verlag, Munich,
distributed in North and South America by K.G. SAUR, Inc.
175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010 The ECO 92 SUMMIT, Different Visions, published by the
University for Peace Prophet, The Hatmaker's Son, the Life of Robert Muller
by Douglas Gillies A list and order form of my books in English is attached.
Some of them are out of print but can be obtained on
Internet at Amazon.com. If philanthropists would like to
help republishing some of them, I would be very happy and
grateful. Any person or institution republishing one of my
books would receive full credit for it at the beginning of
the book. A list of foreign editions of some of my books is also
attached. Yours in devotion for peace and a better
world, Robert Muller And please order or photocopy this Absolute,
Urgent Need for Proper Earth Government and send it to
the head of your government and to your representative in
Parliament.
From my 5000 Ideas and Dreams for a Better World and
others to follow It took ten years to get the Constitution of the United
States of America adopted. It took forty-three years to create the European
Union. It took fifty years to get the healing of scurvy through
fruit juices (vitamin C) recommended by scientist Lind
adopted. For over one thousand years the medical establishment
believed firmly that the heart only heated the blood, until
1630 when it was discovered that the blood circulated and
that the heart was a pump. It took until the discovery of
bacteria by Pasteur for doctors to believe Semelweiss who in
1840 asked already doctors to wash their hands in order not
to transmit diseases. The acceptance of new ideas and discoveries seems to be
slow for humans. My question is: how many years will it take until
national governments and humanity will at long last
recognize the absolute need to create a proper Earth
government, either in the form of a United States of the
World or of a World Union along the model of the recent
European Union or even more modern forms favorable to the
Earth's survival and further evolution? (See Ideas 1901 to
2000 in Vol. IV.) If this is not done, we will see untold
disasters on this planet. Mark my words. The United Nations should urgently consider several world
urgency plans or conferences to halt the rapid decline of
Plane Earth's life giving capacities and wealth: Idea 5285 a world emergency plan to stop for at
least five years the human population explosion; Idea 5286 a world emergency plan for the more
rapid reduction of carbon dioxide emissions; Idea 5287 a world emergency plan to reduce
humanity's colossal unnecessary productions and Earth
destroying wastes; Idea 5288 a world emergency plan to avoid further
risks of climatic changes; Idea 5289 a basic review of the entire
transportation ways, systems and habitats of human on planet
Earth; Ideas 5290 two immediate world conferences on
world use, abuse and deterioration of die and 5291 two most vital elements for humans: air and water Idea 5292 an urgent and deep, serious, fundamental
review of all other aspects of the 21 basic segments of human life on planet Earth listed
earlier in this document but worth repeating: a new political system for planet Earth a new economics a new education a new media and communications a new democracy a new global leadership a spiritual Renaissance and inter religious
cooperation a non violent human society a well preserved planet a descent well being for all humans a stabilization of the world population right human settlements on the planet the disarmament, demilitarization, denuclearization and
global security of the planet a new science and technology a new anthropology, sociology and new ways of life a new human biology a new philosophy, cosmology and long term, view of
evolution a new world ethics and justice a new world psychology a new science and art of planetary management an art and culture Renaissance
Robert Muller was born in Belgium in 1923 and raised in
the Alsace-Lorraine region in France, he experienced
constant political and cultural turmoil during his youth.
His grandparents had five successive nationalities (French,
German, French, German, French) without leaving their
village as a result of three wars (1870-1871, 1914-1918,
1939-1945). Often as a child, Robert Muller would look out
of his window at the border he could not cross and long for
the day when he, like the birds, the clouds, the sun and the
stars, would no longer have to observe the imaginary line.
Today, thanks to the dream and effort of his compatriot
Robert Schuman who similarly hated these borders, Robert
Muller's passport reads, "European Union" with the sub-title
France, and he is free to cross all western European
borders. Robert Muller knew the horrors of World War II, of being
a refugee, of Nazi occupation and imprisonment. During the
war he was a member of the French Resistance. After the war
he returned home and earned a Doctorate of Law from the
University of Strasbourg. In 1948 he entered and won an
essay contest on how to govern the world, the prize of which
was an internship at the newly created United Nations. Dr. Muller devoted the next 40 years of his life behind
the scenes at the United Nations focusing his energies on
world peace. He rose through the ranks at the UN to the
official position of Assistant-Secretary-General. He has
been called the "Philosopher" and "Prophet of Hope" of the
United Nations. Robert Muller is a deeply spiritual person.
From his vantage point of a top level global states-person
he has seen a strong connection between spirituality and the
political/cultural scene. Robert Muller created a "World Core Curriculum" and is
known throughout the world as the "father of global
education." There are 29 Robert Muller schools around the
world with more being established each year. The "World Core
Curriculum" earned him the UNESCO Peace Education Prize in
1989. Based on this curriculum and his devotion to good
causes, Dr. Muller has recently drawn up a "Framework for
World Media Coverage" as a public service, as well as a
"Framework for Planetary and Cosmic Consciousness" and a
"Framework for the Arts and Culture." Now in active "retirement," Dr. Muller is Chancellor of
the University for Peace created by the United Nations in
demilitarized Costa Rica. He is in great demand to make
speeches to educational, environmental, spiritual and
political conferences around the world. Dr. Muller
concentrates his efforts on promoting greater human
understanding and global awareness. He was recently the
recipient of the Albert Schweitzer International Prize for
the Humanities and the Eleanor Roosevelt Man of Vision
Award. Dr. Muller lives most of the year at his small farm
overlooking the University of Peace, on a sacred indigenous
hill, Mt. Rasur, from which according to indigenous
prophecy, a civilization of peace will extend to the entire
world. His traditional Costa Rican house is located just up
the hill from the Peace Monument of the University. In
addition to his duties at the University, he devotes time to
his writings and is an internationally acclaimed,
multi-lingual speaker and author of fourteen books published
in various languages. He has published his Testament to the
UN as well as his plans and dreams for a peaceful, happy
world.
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PREFACE
JIMMY CARTER
Chancellor Emeritus
United Nations University for Peace
Costa Rica
"Dear Robert, congratulations for having finished your 4000
ideas. May I ask you: which one do you consider the most
important?"
Well, my most important idea and conclusion after all my
adult life as a world civil servant is this:
which struck me during my life
to barbarism, war and inhumanity. There is no salvation
for civilization, or even the human race, other than the
creation of a world government."
Advocates of World Government/World
Citizenship
citizenship in their writings or speeches:Mortimer Adler
Our new, overriding concern: the salvation and preservation
of the Earth
Yes, but I hear that at the present rate you will be 9.3
billion in the year 2050 and stabilize only at 10.7 billion
in the year 2,200, which means 4.8 billion more people than
today! You still increase by 80 million people every year.
You will end by destroying me.
We continue to do our utmost. Each year the figure of
population growth decreases by a few more millions. On 12
October 1999 we were 6 billion people. The increase during
the preceding twelve months was 78 million. To change the
course of global phenomena takes time. Humanity which is in
the kindergarten of the global age has not learned it
yet.
You better learn it fast. I have another major complaint,
namely while there is a population explosion in the poor
countries you have also triggered off a wild inventions,
production, business, marketing, advertising and
overconsumption explosion in the rich countries. In these
countries an individual consumes 30 times more of my
resources than in the poor countries. From my point of view,
namely the damages you do to my body, your population
statistics are wrong: while the less developed countries
count 4.7 billion people, the more developed countries' 1.2
billion should be multiplied by 30, i.e. they represent in
my eyes 36 billion people!
WHY EACH HOUR
WHY EACH FIVE HOURS
WHY EACH DAY
WHY SINCE 1970
WHY DURING A HUMAN LIFETIME
I have just read a statement by Mr. Mario Soares, the Prime
Minister of Portugal and Chairman of a World Commission on
the Oceans, who says: "the action taken for the seas and
oceans since the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit have been quite
depressing." May I warn you: if the ultra-violet rays going
through the vast hole in my ozonosphere (it has reached the
size of continental China) kill the plankton and diatoms of
my seas and oceans you might lose 2/3rds of your oxygen!"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be
our doubts of today."
Principal Segments of Human Life
A World Framework
The Universe AND OUR PLANETARY HOME
HUMAN GROUPINGS GRO"INI
THE MIRACLE OF INDIVIDUAL LIFE
The Absolute, Urgent Need For Proper Earth Government ·
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21st century and the third millennium should
be:
WE MUST
WE MUST ACHIEVE
A Cosmic Couple
"Thank you, dear Robert, for what you are recommending.
Perhaps after all, the greatest jewel of my Creation, the
Earth, can be saved.
already written 232 more ideas which will lead hopefully
someday to a total of 5000!
"I sincerely hope so and I will bless you with a longer life
to do it."
The Absolute, Urgent Need For Proper Earth Government ·
Robert Muller ·
ANNEX
on the Role of the Union within the United Nations
and the Problems of Reforming the UN
2002 World Citizen