Part 2 of 4 by Jim Stark, President of Vote World Parliament
As far back as the 1960s, it was realized that all-out nuclear war could kill every person on the planet, and perhaps all life on Earth. We need to fully and permanently remove the threat of nuclear war or any war using weapons of mass destruction (WMD) from the list of possible futures, and that will require that we ban war altogether. Only a democratic world parliament has any realistic chance of doing all that.
There are many other supranational issues besides war, the most dangerous of which is climate change (or global warming). It is now clear that climate change is a serious threat to our very existence. Al Gore has called this a “true planetary emergency.” If we expect a patchwork of national initiatives to solve this problem, we are dreaming.
We know how to use technology to “corruption-proof” a government and make it totally transparent, so we won’t need to worry about the possibility of a “Hitler” gaining control of the democratic world parliament. If we are going to construct such an institution, common sense dictates that it must have verified integrity, using whatever technology it takes to accomplish an extremely high standard. It must be made impossible for military force to be used inappropriately at the global level.
Business needs stability to operate, and war is the opposite of stability, even if a few industries profit temporarily from war. A future where a company can operate smoothly and profitably for thousands of years is possible only if we construct a democratic world parliament.
There are enormous injustices in the world, and history surely teaches us that there is no peace without justice, no justice without law, and no law without government—in this case, world law and democratic world parliament.
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