Sounds impossible, right? But here’s the thing. 

We’re getting the whole world involved.

We, the people of the world, united in our desire for lasting peace and a habitable planet, believe that there is only one way to achieve this goal; a World Federation.

So we are establishing a new global movement, OCCUPY EARTH to make that happen. 

There are already organizations and individuals working at the international level towards the same goal. But what we know works best, what moves mountains, is the legitimate voice of the citizenry. We must create a movement by and for the peoples of the world. Global problems need global solutions, and we need a democratic World Federation - a vital global institution - to be that solution.

A global legal system is absolutely essential to deal with the major global issues we face today. The new World Federation will enact enforceable laws where necessary to save people and planet from destruction.

No more toothless treaties and false promises - while the planet literally burns. 

We believe that this is the only effective path forward. How? See our strategy here.

The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it."

~Robert Swan

Let's make a move. Together.

Sometimes it feels like events are just happening to us, that we are merely passengers on a runaway train. Maybe we protest, sign petitions, and write letters, yet the train continues to careen every which way, bouncing off the guardrails.

And we see the solid wall fast approach at the end of the line.

The upcoming disaster looks unavoidable because we can’t believe that there is anything we can do. We can’t really change anything. So, we stay on the track, in our seats. We follow the rules. By following the rules, we remain passive and powerless passengers.

But what if there really is something you can do? 

In the train analogy, someone needs to break the glass and pull the emergency chord. It's hard to be the one to do it, and it takes some courage, but somebody has to do it.

In our reality on this planet at this moment in time, we are faced with the threat of nuclear war, an overheating planet, and unchecked artificial intelligence.

We must do something.

It might seem impossible, but there is a way out of this mess. It just needs action, and a few brave souls are needed to take the first steps.

It’s easy, and maybe a little too convenient, to just exclaim that this is impossible. 

That there is nothing I can do. No, something this critical merits much more serious consideration. 

You are right if you say, "There is no way to get everyone to agree." But there are exceptions to that thinking. First, we don't need everyone to agree—a small percentage of the population joining movements like this has historically proven to be successful. But more importantly, there are a few, very important things where the majority do agree.

• Most everyone wants a future for their children.

• Most everyone fears nuclear war.

• Most now even agree that climate change is at a crisis level.

Focusing on the areas we agree on can get us the support we need. These are global, life-threatening issues that we all know need to be solved, no matter how difficult that is.

WORLD FEDERATION

A World Federation quite elegantly solves these problems. As a Federation, it would only have jurisdiction over these global matters. Nation-state governments would continue to have jurisdiction over all other matters, in much the same way that many other national governments share jurisdictions with their states or provinces.

When Kansas and Colorado have a quarrel over the water in the Arkansas River, they don't call out the National Guard in each state and go to war over it. They bring suit in the Supreme Court of the United States and abide by the decision. There isn't a reason in the world why we cannot do that internationally."

~Harry Truman

We need a parliamentary assembly to make global laws, international courts to adjudicate, and an international enforcement agency to enforce them. We need to establish a World Federation.

So there is something to be done. 

It won't be easy by any stretch of the imagination.

But it is very far from impossible.

There are a billion people around the world ready to act — if someone breaks the glass, if someone moves first. 

We are ordinary people who love life and want to protect our children. We understand that it is literally insane to allow the planet to be destroyed. To wage war, let alone nuclear war. To mindlessly develop dangerous technologies.

We shouldn’t be frozen in fear. We shouldn’t be immobilized. We need to be making our move. 

Let's do it together!

How?

I knew someone had to take the first step, and I made up my mind not to move.”

~Rosa Parks

Working together, we can build the largest movement in human history 

For those who indulge in the lore of a one-world government, orchestrated by an elite cabal to dominate the globe - relax, that’s not our agenda. But if it were, we wouldn’t exactly announce it here, would we?

So, instead, let's consider the plan:

 

1. The proposed World Federation will operate democratically, with a parliamentary assembly that represents citizens from all participating countries.

2. The executive will be constructed as a global council with a rotating leadership, ensuring diverse representation and a check on authority. 

3. Robust checks and balances will distribute power across legislative, executive, and judicial branches.

 

The real issue isn’t the creation of a World Federation; it’s the chaos among nations due to the lack of one.

Continuing with the status quo is a risk we cannot afford.

It’s time to work together and evolve our political systems to effectively address global challenges.

 

 

 

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We do expect opposition to the movement. 

 

 

Ugh.

We expect opposition from the extreme ends of the political spectrum. There will also be reasonable skepticism from moderate people. Big business will oppose this as will many politicians and world leaders. People already in positions of power are understandably fond of the status quo. But our experience is that most people, once exposed to the idea, quickly become supporters. 

 

The People Know

We all know in our heart of hearts that the status quo is failing us. We know that our governments aren't doing enough. We know that the UN is failing us. We know that without enforceable global law, nation-states will continue to use war, possibly even nuclear war to settle disputes. We know that competition between nation-states and competition between big corporations will delay and defer addressing the climate crisis until it is too late. We know that the the billionaires and big tech companies will continue to pour billions of dollars into AI, without consideration of the grave dangers and without any proper global oversight.

And in our heart of hearts, we know that the change has to be led by us. That is what this movement is all about - bringing the change that we need to create a peaceful, habitable, and human future. It's been done before. There are very few Monarchs with any power left in this world - and you can be assured that they did not give up their sovereign reigns voluntarily!

No, the citizens decided that they were no longer prepared to be ruled by a Monarch who was not adequately addressing the needs, hopes, and desires of the people. They decided that the status quo was not good for them. So they demanded change, and they got change. Today, we also know that the status quo is not good for us. In point of fact, it threatens our very existence. So we demand change.

Because the real danger is the status quo.

Let's oppose that.

 

 

 

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ON TAKING ACTION

“A problem well stated is a problem half-solved.”

Charles Kettering

 

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed individuals can change the world. In fact, it's the only thing that ever has."

Margaret Mead

 

"What powerholders really fear is resilient, nonviolent, mass rebellion—which exposes as a lie their aura of invincibility while simultaneously removing any excuses for violent crackdowns."

Erica Chenoweth

 

"What You Can Do, or Dream You Can, Begin It; Boldness Has Genius, Power, and Magic in It"

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

“We will not solve the climate crisis with the same people and thinking that caused it.”

Clover Hogan

 

“We learn to fear our own potential, and fall victim to thoughts like: “I’m just one in 7.6 billion. What can I do really?” But to solve our beautiful, bright planet’s dark problems, we must refuse to be ruled by fear.”

Clover Hogan

 

"We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction 'If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable.'"

Petra Kelly

"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."

Abraham Lincoln

 

"I knew someone had to take the first step, and I made up my mind not to move.”

Rosa Parks

 

“Never say never, because limits, like fears, are often just an illusion.”

Michael Jordan

 

"The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men."

Plato

 

"Thinking will not overcome fear but action will."

W. Clement Stone

"There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction."

John F. Kennedy

"Action is the foundational key to all success."

Pablo Picasso

"Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world."

Joel A. Barker

"Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you."

Thomas Jefferson

"Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often."

Mark Twain

'You must take action now that will move you toward your goals. Develop a sense of urgency in your life."

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics."

Jane Addams

"It is easy to sit up and take notice. What is difficult is getting up and taking action."

Honore de Balzac

"Concern should drive us into action, not into depression."

Pythagoras

"Action is the antidote to despair."

Joan Baez

"The time for action is now. It's never too late to do something."

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

 

World United generated quotes:

 

When you are left with only one choice for survival, it doesn't matter what the odds against it are.

 

When threats become existential in nature, we need to get radical with solutions.

 

It’s only impossible if everyone agrees.

Our world is the Titanic, our complacency, the iceberg.

All progress in history has been initiated by people who didn’t understand that it wasn’t possible …or knew it was impossible but did it anyway.

Once you’ve tried everything else, try the impossible.

People fear radical change, but it’s the status quo that's the monster under your bed.

The status quo very much resembles a speeding train and a cliff.

Consider that, given the circumstance, the status quo may be far more dangerous than radical change.

When things stop working completely, get radical.

When systems stop working, the status quo is the radically dangerous idea.

The risk may appear to be in radical change, but alas, it is found smoldering and well camouflaged deep within the status quo.

The most dangerous thought is that somebody else will do it.

 

"Any fear of a world government ought to be tempered by an absolute terror of the status quo, featuring the three horsemen of existential dread: nuclear war, planetary destruction, and a new species of superhuman intelligence."

World United

 

ON WAR & PEACE

 

"The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking, and thus we drift toward unparalleled catastrophe."

Albert Einstein, 1946

 

"Law is, essentially, an order for the promotion of peace. Its purpose is to assure the peaceful living together of a group of individuals in such a way that they settle their inevitable conflicts in a peaceful manner; that is, without the use of force, in conformity with an order valid for all. This order is the law."

Hans Kelsen

"When Kansas and Colorado have a quarrel over the water in the Arkansas River, they don't call out the National Guard in each state and go to war over it. They bring suit in the Supreme Court of
the United States and abide by the decision. There isn't a reason in the world why we cannot do that internationally. "

Harry Truman

"Is the world a community of peoples or a collection of sovereign states?"

Dieter Heinrich

 

"We shall overcome because the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice."

Martin Luther King Jr.

 

"It is not enough to say 'We must not wage war.' It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war, but the positive affirmation of peace."

Martin Luther King Jr.

 

"We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war, but the positive affirmation of peace."

Martin Luther King Jr.

 

"True peace is not merely the absence of tension; it is the presence of justice."

Martin Luther King Jr.

 

"War does not determine who is right - only who is left."

Bertrand Russell

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."

Albert Einstein

"If we don't end war, war will end us."

H. G. Wells

 

“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”

Jimi Hendrix

“Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say that I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us and the world will be as one.” —John Lennon

 

“An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.” —Mahatma Gandhi

 

“Peace is not the absence of conflict. It is the ability to handle conflict by peaceful means.”

Ronald Reagan

 

"When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die."

Jean-Paul Sartre

 

"The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own."

Aldous Huxley

 

"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity."

Dwight D. Eisenhower

 

"I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in."

George McGovern

 

"War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace."

Thomas Mann

 

"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."

Voltaire

 

"War remains the decisive human failure."

John Kenneth Galbraith

 

"Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind."

John F. Kennedy

 

"Man has no right to kill his brother. It is no excuse that he does so in uniform: he only adds the infamy of servitude to the crime of murder."

Percy Bysshe Shelley

 

"The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations."

David Friedman

 

"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war."

Albert Einstein

 

"My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth."

George Washington

 

"A lasting order cannot be established by bayonets."

Ludwig von Mises

 

"Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime."

Ernest Hemingway

 

"What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party."

Henry David Thoreau

 

Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

"War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it."

George Orwell

 

"It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."

Albert Einstein

 

"Patriots always talk of dying for their country and never of killing for their country."

Bertrand Russell

 

"If men do not now succeed in abolishing war, civilization and mankind are doomed."

Ludwig von Mises

 

"The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one."

Albert Einstein

 

"War is inevitable only if we accept it as, and thereby allow it to be, inevitable."

World United

 

"I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word."

Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

"Wanton killing of innocent civilians is terrorism, not a war against terrorism."

Noam Chomsky

 

"At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst."

Aristotle

 

"The absence of law among nation-states renders us unable to prevent war. We might as well say that it caused it."

World United

 

Miscellaneous 

"There is no solution for civilization or even the human race, other than the creation of world government."

Albert Einstein

 

“It is only the way it is until we discover the new way it is and then that is the way it is until we discover the new way it is and so it goes until the world is no longer flat, electricity lights the night and shoes no longer are tied with ribbons. You see."

Bella from the film “Poor Things”

 

"Every revolution seems impossible at the beginning, and after it happens, it was inevitable."

Bill Ayers

 

“I’d say it’s about as impossible as manned flight, or most revolutions; not at all.”

World United

 

“We have to do the impossible, it’s not like we have a choice.”

World United

 

“If World Federation is impossible, then so is the continued existence of Homo Sapiens.”

World United

 

"Yearning for the seemingly impossible is the path to human progress."

Bryant H. McGill

 

"Change always seems impossible until it's inevitable."

Sarah McBride

 

"We, the generation that faces the next century, can add the solemn injunction 'If we don't do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable."

Petra Kelly

 

"Every revolutionary idea seems to evoke three stages of reaction. They may be summed up by the phrases: 1- It's completely impossible. 2- It's possible, but it's not worth doing. 3- I said it was a good idea all along."

Arthur C. Clarke

 

"All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is this: Act as if it were impossible to fail. That is the talisman, the formula, the command of right about face which turns us from failure to success."

Dorothea Brande

 

"We must make the United Nations continue to work, and to be a going concern, to see that difficulties between nations may be settled just as we settle difficulties between States here in the United States. When Kansas and Colorado fall out over the waters in the Arkansas River, they don't go to war over it; they go to the Supreme Court of the United States, and the matter is settled in a just and honorable way. There is not a difficulty in the whole world that cannot be settled in exactly the same way in a world court."

President Harry S. Truman

 

"We won't have a society if we destroy the environment."

Margaret Mead

 

"The environment is where we all meet; where we all have a mutual interest; it is the one thing all of us share."

Lady Bird Johnson

 

"We won't save places we don't love; we can't love places we don't know; and we can't know places we haven't learned."

Indigenous Wisdom

"The Earth does not belong to us: we belong to the Earth."

Marlee Matlin

 

"We won't have peace on the Earth until we make peace with the Earth."

Vandana Shiva

 

"The environment is where we live, where we work, and where we play."

Wilma Mankiller

 

"We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children."

Native American Proverb

 

"Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land."

Aldo Leopold

 

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second-best time is now."

Chinese Proverb

 

"The environment and the economy are really both two sides of the same coin. If we cannot sustain the environment, we cannot sustain ourselves."

Wangari Maathai

 

"What we are doing to the forests of the world is but a mirror reflection of what we are doing to ourselves and to one another."

Mahatma Gandhi

 

"Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."

Albert Einstein

 

"The Earth does not belong to us: we belong to the Earth."

Marlee Matlin

 

"Nature always wears the colors of the spirit."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

"The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction."

Rachel Carson

 

 

"Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed."

Mahatma Gandhi

 

"We do not want merely to see beauty... we want something else which can hardly be put into words – to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves."

C.S. Lewis

 

"Conservation means harmony between men and land."

Stewart Udall

 

"The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it."

Robert Swan

 

“I used to think that to be an environmentalist, I’d have to chain myself to trees and ride zodiacs into the path of whaling ships. But I’m a bit too word-nerdy for that. I found my place when I started investigating some of our planet’s most dangerous enemies: Apathy. Pessimism. Green-washing. Tokenism. By educating myself, I overcame my own mindset hurdles, and quickly realised that I wanted to help others do the same.”

“No one is born a leader; you learn to become one through courage and imagination. So like the young people who have not been around long enough to let society clip the wings of their imaginations, I invite you to let your courage take flight.”

“We must discard the belief that we're powerless, and realise that we are infinitely powerful.”

Clover Hogan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

As necessity is the mother of invention, urgency is the father of action."

~Anonymous

 

How much time do we have?

Impossible to know, but we have some worrying clues. 

Scientists warn us that we have only a few years left to halt the worst effects of the climate crisis. Estimates range from "it’s already too late" to as little as five to as much as 20 years - but the urgency is clear.

Violent destructive wars between Russia and Ukraine, Israel and Hamas, and others are of particular concern. Moreover, sabre-rattling between nuclear powers has reached a new 40-year high, coupled with a renewed disregard for international treaties on nuclear disarmament. It is, of course, possible that none of these nations will use nuclear weapons, but that is a poor substitute for actual legislation outlawing them. Actual disarmament is an achievable goal, even if it appears completely improbable.

Artificial intelligence may be the most complex and perhaps the most dangerous threat we face. Its exponential growth is sure to wreak havoc on civilization. Our civilizations are built on trust, and AI, with its rather shocking ability to mimic human voice, human writing, human imagery, human likenesses, etc., will test our abilities to recognize that which is real and that which is created by artificial intelligence.

Even the most optimistic projections for any one of these three existential threats demand immediate attention and immediate action.

We have needed to take action on climate change for decades now, and although the reasons for the lack of action are multitude, competition, rather than cooperation, between nation-states is the biggest blockade to serious action. A World Federation with sovereignty over nation-states in these areas would establish nation-by-nation guidelines for percentage reductions in CO2 emissions. These would be legally binding and would have serious penalties associated with them for noncompliance.

War, described as "the greatest failure of humankind," involves state-sanctioned mass murder. It is universally condemned by the citizens of the world, and should obviously be illegal and subject to the same penalties that murder between individuals would engender. A World Federation would enact legislation to make war and the possession of weapons of mass destruction illegal. 

Artificial intelligence and other dangerous technologies threaten our very existence. The very real and dangerous scenarios we can imagine are likely only a small percentage of the threats - most of which we cannot even conceive.  A global government would establish and enforce regulations on the development of AI. The world, acting in concert, would also need to develop "good" AI to counteract the malicious AI that will inevitably be created by bad actors and pure profit seekers.

 

 

We believe a World Federation is the only credible way to resolve these existential issues. These forces are relentless. To hold them at bay, half-measures will never suffice. If we are convinced that this is the only way out, we must refocus our time, energy and resources on this project, above all others. 

There is literally no scenario that would suggest any other time than right now for taking action. 

 

 

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