On a typical day – in this
century, not the 19th, as depicted – if you’re one of the 391,000 being born, some
163,800 people are dying, making a net daily population growth of some 227,000.
Of the deceased, 25,000 have died of hunger today, despite the fact that there are
more than double the number of overweight in the world (1.6bn) than there are
undernourished (770m).
You may be
among the 2,500 people who have realised this today and just committed suicide.
Or you may be among the 3,000 dying in road accidents. No! Sorry, you wouldn’t be
reading this if you were…. But those are the statistics. We don’t know how many
have been killed in wars, terrorism and other forms of violence…
If you
survive, you get publicly educated to the tune of US$1.30 a day. You get
public healthcare at the rate of US$1.50 a day. So far so good... But
watch out, we also spend US$0.65 per day on military pursuits, which is half
of what is spent on education, so when you get out of school and remember
only half of what you’ve learnt, the cost is exactly the same as what has been
spent on means of mutual destruction. And we thought we were smart…. and innocent,
right?
Well, don’t
worry, the sun shines on all alike at the rate of some 3 trillion MWh today,
which apart from a few clouds and the fact that only half the world gets the
biggest blast of this at any one time, is more than enough to keep the whole
planet going, with or without us crazy, unaccountable human beings who
really don’t seem to know what to spend money on in a cost-effective way.
If there
is some kind of next step in evolution, it will have to be like this:
· Long term planning for effective spending and
use of resources… “Long-term” means for the next 2500 years.
Not for one 4-year election period.
· Proper education of human wants, needs and
desires to account for the above, including:
ü Immediate preparations for global Television
Channel supporting “yoga”, “meditation” and “self-awareness” and “world
citizenship” as a means for real human education. 2016 is the 2nd year that the
UN celebrates the International Day of Yoga on 21 June. See Background here. And it is now 63 years since the first World Government of WorldCitizens was declared. These initiatives, together with available social media and
large-scale funding contributions, will bring more calmness and peace to the
human mind. And from there, we can work towards:
o Commencement
of an ongoing ban on violence of all kinds, especially in the younger
generation. No more hammer-bashing heroes, no more military honours, no more soldiers,
no more children’s and teenage and adult “entertainment” lauding violence of
any kind. No more vengeance and revenge, no more good guys and bad guys, no
more fighting, no more terror, no more scary movies. Things are scary enough
without them. Sorry, entertainment industry – you’re simply 19th-century and
you have to adapt or be phased out.
o
Immediate
ban on negative emotions of all kinds. No more self-justification or
justification for others that they “couldn’t help it”. Diminish wishy-washy
soap operas full of neurotic examples, and plan for obsolescence over the short
term – one generation.
o Initial
curtailment and cessation within one generation of arms and weapons
production. 5-year slowdown and 10 year ban on the manufacture of bullets
and rockets and explosives and nuclear weapons. There are enough nuclear
weapons (total approx. inventory 15,850 “warheads”, Source: SIPRI) already to kill everyone on the planet dozens of times over.
o Thiis
would require current-day politicians from all over the world to actually meet,
sit down together, decide to work and actually earn their income for the
benefit of humanity – not for the benefit of their homeland political parties
or personal interests. This would phase out many and we would be left with a
handful of good-hearted, straight-thinking politicians. And if we
change, they change, for sure.
· With
this, everything else will fit into place over the medium term – say within 3-4
generations. Without this, a miracle will have to happen if humanity wants to survive
the next 50 to 150 years without large-scale die-out from famine, disease or
warfare. Either we accept the New Age, or we go out with the Old One. The New
World is capable of doing the accounts for the entire planet. What are we
waiting for?
We can’t use
Forbes’ Wealthiest Countries list 2015 and choose the top 80. We have to go for
Wikipedia, because they provide easy access to the population data from each
country. The first 80 are all above Int$15,000 a year as measured in GDP data
per capita: from Qatar at No. 1 with some Int$132,099 per capita, down to Palau at
Int$15,182. The population of these 80 countries is around 2.1 billion, or 28%
of the world total. These countries, capable of giving their populations income
levels above a bare minimum of 15,000, will have to help the remaining 72%,
which are in worse condition, often through no real fault of their own, as they
were colonised and pushed around by the bigger powers of old.
The
figures are in what are called Geary–Khamis dollars, more commonly known as international
dollars (Int$). Let’s say we could encourage these 80 countries to request an
annual contribution of Int$0.50 per capita for New Era educational affairs.
That’s Int$1,053,556,795. Umm… yes, 1 billion 53 and a half million dollars for a
Global TV channel promoting the spiritual process, aka yoga, aka self-awareness,
aka virtues, or enhanced human consciousness, or call it “global welfare”… Not
bad for a start, compared to CNN's $856 million budget, and about half of the
BBC’s ₤2.2 billion (of which about £255.2 million comes from a UK government grant)!
It
definitely can be done. Why wait until it’s too late? Why do I have to wait for
the world to improve slowly, if it ever does! Let’s just talk to Bill Gates,
Mark Zuckerberg, and others like Saudi Prince Al-Waheed bin Talal, recently
pledging to donate his £32 billion fortune to charity, Warren Buffet, GeorgeSoros, technology pioneer and Intel founder Gordon Moore, Laura and John Arnold Foundation, and many more. With a little legwork, we can even top the BBC’s 2.2
billion.
I am ready
to give my 50 cents to the foundation of this TV channel. In fact, instead of
50 cents a year, I’ll give 50 cents a month! It’ll be worth it.
In five
years time, we can even rake some savings off the public military expenditure
for educational purposes, at, say 10 cents a day per capita from the US$0.68
per day per capita currently being spent. That’s an annual budget of Int$270
billion, right?
How about that for a business plan to support human life
and all life on this planet, instead of wasting money on violence, weaponry and
killing?
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