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Will it now take a global government to solve what were once considered national or regional issues yet now affect us all? |
| global government | by Thai sean | 0 votes | 
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| Determination, I suggest, is the key | by RedSevenOne | 0 votes |
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Antoschka - Ekaterina Moshaeva: Of course, because the time is coming, because now we have this opposition between America, European countries, Russia, China, and India. We broke new cracks like in the book of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. He writes about baobabs: when they are grown up, they break the planet. We are with our [groups] like these baobabs. We must have our own government. Of course we can live in our houses, countries our social structures and have people who rule or organise this. But we must have a global government which would look from the top, like astronauts look from the space on our Earth and see how small and precious it is. And when they come back their minds are changed. People, who have had a clinical death and has almost been gone out of their bodies, may be having seen the Earth, how precious and fragile is our life, our security. To understand this we must build this government, where people would give their voices and their advices how to save our civilisation, not only our village, town, community or country, but the whole Earth. We must think about this. The time is [reigning], and we have such a situation, that it might be too late. And we live on it. And after this if we don’t do this, we wouldn’t have questions to answer, because there would be no civilisation at all. |
Abbas Beydoun: Yes, when this government represents all people like poor and rich or weak and strong, why not? When this government treats all people equally without discrimination, why not? United Nations was a dream in the past, but it is difficult to talk about equality or justice as long as there are differences between rich and pool people for example. |
Alvaro Restrepo: I think that an organization like the United Nations should be much more effective. It should really be a collective will that rules the world. But we perceive that the United Nations are not very effective concerning recent problems like the war in Iraq or other problems when they were completeley incapable against the objectives of the most powerful country of the planet. In my opinion this country which declared itself to be the head and the government of the planet is making some mistakes that will be regretted and that humanity will not be able to change. All empires have a moment of decadence, but the decadence of the North American empire is different to the decadence of other countries. The decadence of the North American empire will lead to the fall of all of us because we depend on their qualities and their strategies that they made themselves. And this is a tragedy. The fall of the global government may be the fall of the whole world. |
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by Ana Lucy Bengochea | 0 votes |
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Andries Botha: Good afternoon Michelle. You know, there used to be a time when people were able to govern themselves.Where, you know, the regionalism, or the locality, or the local, was able to take care of itself. The world has become a global environment because it has been engineered economically to do so. It’s because it’s an economic system requires a global marketplace in order for capital, and for a particular mode of government to come into being. So you know, it kind of manifests itself, it kind of becomes what certain people have made it to be. I think the delicacy of a local form of government, the delicacy, something which is nuanced at a local level, has been able to govern itself. It’s just suddenly become non-functional, inappropriate, and unable to cope in a global environment. So I think the purpose of globality is to create global forms of government. We’re finding the European common market. And it’s all got to do with zones of economic activity. You know it doesn’t necessarily have to be that way. Global government has now become an inevitability certainly because a world of leadership is – leadership, global leadership has forced it in that way. I don’t believe it will take global government to solve regional issues. It’s not interested in national or regional issues. It’s only interested in global issues. And you know it has no interest in the small or the delicately nuanced issues of difference. It’s all about homogeneity and conformity. I really think that we need to be particularly vigilant about this, and alert, you know. I don’t know what we can do about this. But I think large is – small is large. Large is cumbersome, and in the end I don’t believe sustainable, you know. It’s sustainable on a crude, macro level, but it’ll never answer. The human nuancing necessary to take care of the subtle differences that exist and need to be respected across the national and geo[inaudible] |
Angaangaq Lyberth: Michelle, when I look at your question I realize how we have been robbed of the events of the world. It is like they have hijacked us all and we are allowing it to happen. Yes, it’s going to have to take a world government to solve the simplest issues on the world in which we live. But this time it’s going to be done globally rather than locally. Because locally we have not been able to do that. Did you know that? Within the municipality we have not been govern ourself to the best of the advancement of the society in which we live. So if we don’t have that, what have we got? What have you and I got when we cannot even in our municipal boundaries live a life to the fullest both materially and spiritually? Ponder upon it. Yes, it’s going to have to take much bigger governments to resolve the simplest issues. I wish it didn’t have to be. But then again mankind has yet to grow up to his own potential. It takes a long time doesn’t it? And look at the price we have to pay. We have to pay with lives upon lives upon lives, resources upon resources upon resources, to be what we are now. And it did not work. The way we know the calendar is coming to an end. When it comes to an end what will we do? Yes, I wish I had the answer. I wish I had the answer. I wish I had the answer for your question. Help me find the answer. Help me find the answer. Thank you. |
Anthony Arnove: I think the question gets at a crucial point, which is the problems we confront in the world today are global problems. They are not problems that have national boundaries. There is not a problem that exists only among state or local boundaries. The problems we confront today are global problems. But, the question raised is the question of a global government, and I think that the real solution is not global government, but global movements. The idea usually, as I say with a global government, is of institutions like the United Nations, which could somehow become an instrument for global decision-making and rule. The problem is the United Nations is an undemocratic institution. The representatives of states at the UN are not elected. They represent very narrow interests within their own states. And the UN itself is dominated by the United States, and a handful of other powers who have effective control. And the reality is we need global movements from below, popular movements, social movement that can confront the power of states and that can begin to create international institutions, democratic participatory decision-making institutions from the ground up, from the grass roots. The World Social Forum is just the beginning of an expression of that aspiration. But, the forum right now is a meeting space. It is a forum for dialog, but not for decision-making and not for taking action. We need to transform that and develop new institutions that reach across national boundaries, but become action bodies, become decision and action taking bodies, because the problems we are confronting are urgent and will only be changed not through dialog but through protests, through struggle. |
Anuradha Koirala: I don’t think -- we can dream of global government, but I don’t simply think is [inaudible] regional competition of our development and [inaudible]. And then to solve the regional problems of our governments, [inaudible] and ... First the national government first try to solve the problem and then it should go to regional and solve the problem but if we cannot solve the problem, so if do not issues which are not solved by a national or regional government can we take it to the global government? But we cannot think of a local government as yet. We can think of having a networking of national, regional, or global government are not however global. |
Anuradha Mittal: I think it’s not about needing a global government, but what we are going to need is global governance. Now that’s in real deficit today. It is true when we look at some of the most important issues of the time, hunger. It is not just something happening in Asia, Africa, or Latin America; it is to be found in rich Western nations as well. In the United States, almost 36 million Americans are considered food insecure. So, when we look at some of those issues, the absence of healthcare, I mean, over 45 million Americans have no health insurance. If we look at increasing poverty figures, again poverty is endemic to all parts of the world and that is because of the absence of global governance and that’s what we do need. It is not about one global government because it cannot be the model of the UN Security Council where basically the empires, the superpowers, the ex-colonial powers are still in power. But we will need global governance where basically countries, regions can actually determine what is best for them, where the people of those countries of the region can determine what kind of policies they want. So, it is not about one government for all because those attempts have been made through the World Trade Organization, one government for all to regulate all. We are looking for a different kind of governance; and it is really about global governance which really is about everyone in this world having a right to participate in the governments, to have a government which respects their wishes, their desires, which fulfills the obligations in terms of respecting the human rights. |
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