Planetary Health
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A New Foundation for a Sustainable World
World Federalist Movement – Canada · February 2023
Endless growth in consumption is driving climate change, extinction and conflict, and clean technology alone cannot end overshoot. People will accept consuming less if the change is framed as a gain: more time for relationships, learning, service and creativity.
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Global Climate Accountability
World Federalist Movement – Canada · February 2023
Elizabeth May argues for a World Trade and Environment Organization to enforce climate action. She highlights the failure of the Kyoto Protocol and the need for trade sanctions to meet the 1.5 C target.
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A Speech at the 75th Anniversary of the Montreux Declaration
World Federalist Movement · February 2023
Regional integration in Europe shows how a federal system can work across borders, and European federalists belong in the same movement as world federalists. Climate governance is the best ground for a joint campaign, starting with a World Environment Authority.
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A Speech at the 75th Anniversary of the Montreux Declaration
World Federalist Movement · February 2023
In 1947 European and world federalists chose separate paths. Facing climate breakdown as well as the nuclear danger, they should now join forces in a “Union of Federalists” pressing every government for a Global Green Deal.
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Global Challenges Require Global Solutions: How We Can Prevent A Complete Climate Catastrophe
Citizens for Global Solutions · February 2023
The article examines the failure of international climate treaties. It highlights the need for global cooperation to prevent climate catastrophe.
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From National Secrecy To World Security: Friendship Sets Us Free
Citizens for Global Solutions · February 2023
National governments hide information and spy on rivals at great cost, breeding mistrust and fear while a billion people are starving. A democratic world federation with shared citizenship would let humanity pool information and resources, replacing secrecy with the cooperation of friends.
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The Spring of Civilization?
World Federalist Movement · January 2023
Nation-states have been breaking apart for decades, as a 1973 case for world federal government predicted, and climate change and nationalism now threaten civilization itself. The open question is whether the world federalist message prevails before catastrophe, or only after more world wars.
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Reforming International Economic Institutions, For a More Prosperous, Just And Sustainable World Economic Order
World Federalist Movement – Canada · December 2022
Peter Venton argues that the IMF, World Bank and WTO must add climate stability and lower inequality to their goals, end $6 trillion a year in fossil fuel subsidies, close tax havens and answer to a UN Parliamentary Assembly.
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Will there ever be world government? A reply.
World Federalist Movement · December 2022
A democratic world federation is both desirable and probably decades away, with one estimate running from 50 to 400 years. Only democracies should form its core, following the path Europeans took from a coal and steel community toward federation.
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Human And Environmental Rights Come With Mutual Responsibilities
Citizens for Global Solutions · December 2022
Declarations of human and environmental rights mean little until people accept duties to match. A world court for both kinds of rights, a people’s parliament and a legal status of world citizen would give individuals a say over how the planet is treated.
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International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict
World Federalist Movement · November 2022
Conflicts fought over natural resources are twice as likely to flare up again, and war has always ruined land and water. Condemnation is not enough: states need an international environmental court, and ecocide belongs among the crimes the ICC can try.
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The WFM strategy for a “World Constituent Moment”
World Federalist Movement · November 2022
A coalition of willing democracies cannot launch a world parliament while great powers are at war; only a shared danger such as the environmental crisis can. Step-by-step campaigns for a Global Green Deal and a UN parliamentary assembly could start that process.
