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THERE IS NO ALTERNATIVE TO DRINKING WATER.

12 Thursday Jun 2014

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Water is complicated.

Unlike coal or petroleum water cannot be replaced.  It is intertwined with every sector of society.  Energy production, Agriculture, Industry.

It won’t be long before we will have move people to water.

The problem is that we humans are searching for it on Mars when we need be searching for ways to produce more water on earth.

97% of the water we have is Saltwater, with 2% is trapped in ice that leaves 1%. To put it another way : If all the water on earth was represented by an 11 litre jug, the fresh water would fill a singles cup, and we can only access the last drop.

Now if we keep growing in world population only by 2030 the demand for water will out strip supply by 40%.

We have had two waves of resource-driven imperialism in the modern era. Gold and Oil.

The third wave is currently being fought over the most valuable natural resource  WATER – Iraq, Libya, Syria.

Why bother with missiles,bullets and the like just turn the tap off and the wars will end.

At the moment France’s global mega water companies: Suez, Ondeo, and Saur, control almost half of the world’s $400 billion water market.

Syria controls 40% of Israel’s water.

Water is the commodity that determines the wealth and stability of nations and will in the not so distant future spell the difference between greatness and decline.

Now I can hear you saying what can I do about it.  All one can see is Conflicts, Poverty, Modern Day Slavery, Climate Change, Corruption, Greed.

Here is what you can do.

To stop Sovereign Wealth Funds Privatizing what is left of Fresh water you can read my previous blogs and get involved  to lobby the United Nations to introduce a World Aid Commission of 0.05%  on all Foreign Exchange Transaction over $20,000.

The funds raised by this commission can be used to protect what is of value to us all.

 

 

 

 

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IS THIS ALL WE ARE? CONSUMERS.

02 Monday Jun 2014

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The richer we are and the more we consume, the more self-centred and careless of the lives of others we appear to become.

Even if you somehow put aside the direct, physical impacts of rising consumption, it’s hard to understand how anyone could imagine that economic growth is a formula for protecting the planet. So what we seem to see here is the turning of a vicious circle.  The more harm we do, the less concerned about it we become. And the more hyper consumerism destroys relationships, communities and the physical fabric of the Earth, the more we try to fill the void in our lives by buying more stuff.

All this is accompanied in the rich anglophone nations with the extreme neoliberalism promoted by both press and politicians, and a great concentration of power in the hands of the financial and fossil fuel sectors, which lobby hard, in the public sphere and in private, to prevent change.

How we break the circle and wake people out of this dream world is the question that all those who love the living planet should address.

There will be no easy answers. To succeed is to destroy ourselves. To fail is to destroy ourselves. That is the bind we have created.

Ignore if you must climate change, biodiversity collapse, the depletion of water, soil, minerals, oil; even if all these issues were miraculously to vanish, the mathematics of compound growth make continuity impossible.

Iron ore production has risen 180% in ten years. The trade body Forest Industries tell us that “global paper consumption is at a record high level and it will continue to grow.” If, in the digital age, we won’t reduce even our consumption of paper, what hope is there for other commodities?

Any market-based system to save the planet generates a clash between profit and protecting nature and it is usually resolved in favour of business. Just look at the price of carbon credits £2.80 below junk bonds.

All systems of Governments are flawed, but those that are controlled by private money are reduced to a subsidiary of the human economy. Nature is worthy of protection when it is profitable to business.

NOW I AM NOT THE ONLY PERSON ADVOCATING CHANGE.

THE PROBLEM IS COMBINING ALL THE VOICES INTO ONE THAT WILL HAVE AN EFFECT.

It is time that people matter more than profit.

The Foreign Exchange Market which is largely unregulated is $5.3 trillion a day. Just think what we could be achieved by a World Aid Commission of 0.05% . See previous Posts.

If you have any suggestions as to how we can achieve a United World Voice I am all ears.

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0.05% WORLD AID COMMISSION- WORKINGS part two.

23 Friday May 2014

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It is beyond my comprehension with 7/24 news that we continue to destroy the planet that we all own and live on for the sake of short-term Profits.

Greed has no boundaries, no limitations, no moral obligations, no self – esteem, no conscious, it is concave.

It must be harnessed – re focused to contribute to the survival of us all without creating more greed.

In the first part of this blog I out lined how easy it would be to adopt a World Aid Commission. To apply it to all World Foreign Exchange transactions under $20,000. Creating a Fund with a source of perpetual Aid in billions.

So who, how, and where would we invest these funds?

I suggested that the funds revenue could be allocated as follows.

50% – Rapid Aid – fully equipped Response Centers.

25% – Climate Change  Defenses.

25% – International Development Fund.

The Rapid Aid Response Centers (  would get rid of the pathetic need to beg for aid every time there is a disaster) is self-evident.

Four or Five centers fully operational positioned around the globe like lifeboat stations would not only save lives but create employment and pool expertise.

Combined with a Rapid Peacekeeping force that represents all member states.

Climate Change Defenses.

Also self-evident. If we don’t start to build defences and educate the world to the consequences we are all facing  there will be no need for any fund.

International Development Fund.  

This must be Non payback Grants with no strings attached.  Totally transparent based on viable projects submitted to a new United Nations Governing body made up of experts in all fields from all member Nations of the United Nations.

Each project on approval would be allocated an approval number which would then qualify that project for entry into an Annually Televised  Draw for Funds ( this would stop lobbying and corruption etc.)  So many winner at x amount, at y amount, and so on.  The Television program would also show the progress on the previous year Projects winners.

If we are to achieve a fair and just world full of the values that are essential to all of us irrelevant of religious, political, and other aspirations, we must use Greed ( which is common to all of us.)

There is no point living in a virtual reality world full of technology if we have ongoing conflict, inequality, mass economic migration, depletion of finite resources, flooding, poverty, to name just a few of our ailments.

The Primary responsibility is ours not the Futuristic World of the unborn.

If you have any interest your contributions will be much appreciated.

In the mean time kindly support my Petition to the United Nations and the G8.  Found on http:// www change.Org /Robert Dillon.

PASS IT ON TO YOUR FRIENDS. THANK YOU ON BEHALF OF THE EARTH AND THE GENERATIONS TO COME.

A 0.05% WORLD AID COMMISSION – WORKINGS

22 Thursday May 2014

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As I have said I am not the first to advocate what I like to call a commission ( FTC- Financial Transaction Commission) not a Robin Hood Tax or any other kind of tax.  The very word Tax these day sends quivers in all the wrong directions. However perhaps I am the first to broaden the application World Wide.

It would have little or no effect on world economies with very little cost to collect as present collection of taxes is done electronically.

Even if it was applied universally only to currency transactions over $20,000 it would produce billions with the potential to make a huge difference to the well-being of millions of people. 

The foreign exchange (FOREX) market is the largest market in the world, with enormous sums being traded everyday. The size of the market is so huge that it is quite difficult to comprehend the amounts involved. More than $1,200 billion (or $1.2 trillion) worth of currency is traded each day, more than three (3) hundred (00) thousand (000) billion (000,000,000) dollars ($300,000,000,000,000) each year.

Lots of taxes are hard to collect, but this doesn’t seem like one of them.

Sales taxes have decent compliance, and they are often collected by small businesses conducting commerce in cash.

Trading, on the other hand, is conducted by large businesses on computers. This commission would be collected by the exchanges. If there’s no exchange involved, the buyer owes it. It would be paid on any trade carried out in the world or by any world entity or individual (a corporation’s offshore subsidiaries can’t get around it).

It can also be imposed on unfilled orders, derivatives, repos, currency trades and any financial transaction but this is already on the cards within the European Union  and the USA and other countries 

A financial transaction commission (FTC)—a commission on the trading of financial assets—has multiple appeals.

It is a progressive commission that would affect primarily wealthy individuals and large corporate institutions, with benefits potentially flowing to many. Further, while an FTC is not a substitute for effective regulation of finance, it would act to dampen some financial activity, helping to reshape a political economy in which finance has become overly dominant. Finally, the political logic of an FTC—the dynamic of Wall Street vs. Main Street—should give it wide appeal.

The first question is who would manage the fund ?

To create a totally new Organisation would be too cumbersome/ and too expensive to set up.

But a consolidation of existence United Nations organisations/ agencies would save money and resources.

Such a consolidation could combine THE FOLLOWING : OCHA, UNICEF, UNDP,UNEP,UN-HABITAT, UNODC, UNFPA,WFP –  INTO  (ONE ORGANISATION CALLED  –  UN CONCERN – OR WORLD AID COMMISSION- OR UN REACTION WORLD CONCERN.

The funds revenue could be allocated as follows.

50% – Rapid Aid – fully equipped Response -Centers.

25% – Climate Change  Defenses.

25% – International Development Fund.

This concentration of aid over the next 10–12 years would constitute an unparalleled investment in development with benefits that will accrue over time as infrastructure is put into place in the poorest countries.

As always I end this blog fully admitting that I am no expert and all contributions are welcome. The next blog I will attempt to outline how the fund will be transparent and avoid outside political or other pressures in its allocation of funding.

If you are Interested I would be more than pleased if you would give your support to My Petition to lobby the United Nations and the G*8. (  link – https//www.change.org)  – search Robert Dillon.

 

 

ARE WE ALL INCAPABLE OF ACTING AS ONE ?

09 Friday May 2014

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The Asteroid is on it final countdown before hitting earth causing a terminator-style annihilation.

Most of us have seen a Science fiction Movie with this scenario.

Did you ever try to list the reasons why it is impossible for man to act as one. A very interesting exercise of imagination and fact.

Here is my first attempt at a few reasons

Our DNA demands Survival.  Greed.

We are caught in a vicious cycle of Fear, Rage, and Appetites that cry for instant gratification.

We are the agents of the very changes that are throttling us.

We are inventing a world of which we are altogether ill fit to live on.

Complex languages.  World Organisations that compete against each other.

Intelligence. In ourselves, we may finally have met our match.

There is an Evolutionary force to which we cannot adapt.  The web.

Perhaps we will simply morph into Cyber sapiens,* a new human, infinitely more intelligent than you or I are, perhaps more socially adept, or at least able to juggle large tribes of friends, acquaintances, and business associates with the skill of a circus performer. A creature more capable of keeping up with the change it generates. To handle the challenges of time shortages and long distances, Cyber sapiens may even be able to bilocate or split off multiple, digital versions of themselves, each of whom can blithely live separate lives and then periodically rejoin their various digital selves so that they become a supersize version of a single person. 

 A lack of biological constraint may become the defining trait of the next human. We will almost certainly become augmented versions of our current selves.

Our newfound capabilities might become more than we can handle. Will we evolve into some version of comic-book heroes and villains, clashing mythically and with terrible consequences? Powers like these give the term cutting edge a new and lethal meaning. And what of those who don’t have access to all of the fresh, amplifying technologies?

Should we not being guarding  against a world of super-haves and super-have-nots? It is these sides of the equation I wonder about most.

 

 

THE SCRAMBLE HAS BEGUN-IS SUSTAINABILITY STILL POSSIBLE

08 Thursday May 2014

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We are all living in an age where the word Sustainability more typically lends itself to corporate behaviour.

The question is whether civilization ( what ever civilization mean these days) can continue on its current path without undermining prospects for future well-being.

Can humanity alter current behaviors that are leading to self destruction.

The North America’s Iroguis had a proverb ” We have not inherited the earth from our fathers,we are borrowing it from our children.

So what’s going on? and can it keep going on in this way, on this scale, at this pace.

It will almost certainly take more cooperation and more sharing that we can imagine in a world driven by competition and individual accumulation of wealth.

Societies are unlikely to enact policies and programs that favor the future, at the expense of people living in the present, especially the poorer among us.  We have little choice but to give priority to the needs of human beings alive today.

On the other hand we classify ourselves as a Smart and adaptive species which might explain why so many important economic and environmental trends seem headed in conflicting and even opposite directions. 

To help with measurement, we should look without blinking at what is unsustainable—at practices and patterns that,  if we don’t stop them, will stop us.
The rarely voiced reality of environmental unsustainability is that we may have not just less prosperous and comfortable lives in the future but shorter and fewer lives altogether.
If it proves too challenging to feed the projected 2050 world population of more than 9 billion people, for example, it is quite possible we will not have to—for the worst of reasons.
The same can be said of “business-as-usual” greenhouse gas emission scenarios: by the time global thermometers register a hike of 4 degrees Celsius, business-as-usual will have ended a long time ago.
So to answer the Question.  It is my belief that we are all incapable of Sustainability, due to Greed.
The only way is to harness greed into contributing by Placing a World Aid Tax or commission on all Stock Exchange transactions world-wide.
This will creating a sustainable fund to distribute wealth to tackle the present day unsustainable inequalities in the world.
   

AS IF WE DID NOT KNOW IT – CAPITALISM AND CLIMATE CHANGE ARE INCOMPATIBLE

21 Monday Apr 2014

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There is no economy without the environment.  For that matter there is no anything.

By this I mean there’s is no question about it, if we turn a blind eye that is what we will have –  Nothing.

There is no need for absolute knowledge for science to come to this truth.

Common Joe Soap can tell you.

There are no thresholds when it comes to Nature.

The Downwinders ( people who have been exposed to fallout from nuclear tests) found out that there is no such thing as teetering on a threshold.

We are being told that the two big ice sheets on the globe are melting.

So for crying out loud are we all sleepwalking.

Like when we obliged the Large global Oil companies by putting a Tiger in our tanks that turned out to be tetraethyl lead a nasty environmental toxin.

Science is about a gradual convergence on the truth. Capitalism is about Profits for profit sake.

At this point it is irrelevant what the scientists don’t know we must a new creationist strategy to tackle climate change. This change can not be achieved without removing poverty in all its forms along with all our other World problems caused by man’s Greed.

We must stop the privatisation of the planet by Sovereign Wealth Funds, and get capitalism to pay for what we value by placing a World Aid tax on all Stock Exchange transactions world-wide. ( see Previous Blogs)

WE MUST STRIKE A BLOW FORWARD INTO TIME:

15 Tuesday Apr 2014

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I am the first to admit that there are more qualified to comment on Capitalism in the age of Globalization.

But here is what I see.

The age of Globalization and new technologies is profoundly reconfiguring Institutions fundamental to processes of governance and accountability ( for lack of a better words) in our modern States.

If you don’t believe me just look at  Crimea, the Ukraine, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sudan, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Somalia, Algeria,Tunisia, Chad, Burma, and on and on we go all being destabilized.

Why?

Because Economic globalization has transformed the territoriality and sovereignty of the nation-state.

The term Sovereignty, has a long history. From Aristotle to the UN Charter.

Globalization has had a short history as a ruthless corporate-driven extension of commodity production. Solidifying its hold over Institutions, labor, culture, and our very own lives. Now turning into a deadly cycle of terrorism and militarism.

The unbridled capital accumulation of Sovereign Wealth Funds will spread ecological devastation as they recognize no territorial or cultural boundaries.  Devoid of any meaningful social ethics or planning mechanisms they are rapidly becoming the new terror spreading toxic contamination of water, air ,soil, food with global warming with resource depletion, ravaging Nature.

There can no longer be any doubt that their short-term objects of profit for profit sake are in direct conflict with the long-range survival – as human beings – of everyone on Earth.

Representing what I call Corporate colonization they are close if not already totally out of control while the wretched of the earth continue to increase with Poverty turning to Inequality.

I have said in previous blogs that we are incapable of change and that the only way we will affect change is to make greed pay by taxing all Stock Exchange transactions world-wide. We must pay for what we value. The only way to achieve this is for a people’s resolution to reform OUR WORLD ORGANISATION  SUCH AS THE  UNITED NATIONS , THE WORLD BANK, THE IMF ALL NEED REFORM.

  

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IF WE WANT IT WE MUST PAY FOR IT.

13 Sunday Apr 2014

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For as long as I can remember I have being hearing FOUR words——

POVERTY
CONSERVATION
EXTINCTION
CORRUPTION

THEY HAVE NOT GONE AWAY, BUT ALL HAVE TAKEN ON EXTRA BAGGAGE AND BECOME ATTACHED TO EACH OTHER.

It is said that poverty is improving with a massive reduction mainly due to economic growth in China and India. $5 to $7 a day. It now being replaced in the middle classes by inequality.

We are told by Climate Change experts that Extinction is getting closer and closer.

Corruption in all its disguises is here to stay.

Conservation: plagued by the above is fighting a losing battle.

But the good news is that there are two new words on the block.

Data.

Privatisation.

The amount of data stored is doubling every eighteen months.

Privatisation. Has little interest in Poverty or Conservation, but has a self-interest in Corruption and Extinction.

So where do we stand?

The title to this blog states the position.

If we who are now connected by all don’t Pay for what we value we have a world not worthy of our technology advances.

We must make a Tree, a Tiger, Air, Water to valuable to be exploited for Profit.

By placing a Tax or World Aid Commission on all Stock Exchange transactions world-wide we can fund the changes needed to pass on a Globe of Beauty.

WE ARE ALL BECOMING INDIFFERENT AND APATHETIC.

06 Sunday Apr 2014

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J'aime beaucoup...

So what if the ice caps are melting no one is going to change their lifestyles because of that.

Apathy is the defining emotion of our times, and ignorance is bliss.

We are all net working, face booking, twittering, flip boarding, you name it till the birds fall out of the sky.

Capitalism inherently is a system of Injustice, Inequality, and War.

The real question however is not the degree to which humanity is screwed but what are we supposed to do with the information.

The idea of global environmental catastrophe is horrifying hard to grasp. The danger is that we will do nothing. We live in a world in which we are all to blame.

Our sense of identity is changing. Who you think you are is changing to who Am I.

Democracy for sure as we know it is being eroded at an alarming rate.

Our private lives are being willingly and unknowable Data processed to become a commodity to sell to the point that we no longer have a collective will to act just incase it upsets the Economy,or our life styles.

We are being collectively bamboozled by overload of choice and information.  WE ARE BEING MANIPULATED.

THE ONLY WAY TO COUNTER THESE TRENDS IS TO GET A COMMON WORLD VOICE BY WAY OF THE SMART PHONES /   I PADS TO PRESSURE WORLD LEADERS WHETHER THEY BE LOCAL POLITICIANS, PRIME MINISTERS, PRESIDENTS, LARGE CORPORATIONS, UNITED NATIONS OR RELIGIOUS LEADERS.

SO JOIN MY MOVEMENT TO GET A PEOPLES RESOLUTION PASSED IN THE UNITED NATIONS FOR REFORM AND THE PLACING OF A 0.007% AID TAX ON ALL WORLD STOCK EXCHANGE TRANSACTIONS.