Part 3 of 4 by Jim Stark, President of Vote World Parliament
“We benefit enormously from technology … but we also suffer from [its] consequences … it is now easier, takes fewer people, less skill [and] fewer resources to kill large numbers of people than at any time in … history,” said former American Senator George Mitchell (architect of the Mitchell Plan for peace in the Middle East) on CNN’s Newsnight, May 9, 2002. In the future, perhaps a twelve-year-old will be able to make purchases over the Internet and blow up an entire city. To even survive as a species, we must accept law as one of the necessities of life, and that must include world law (this is not the same as international law, since international law applies mostly to governments, and world law would also apply to individuals, just like the other three levels of law). No one today is foolish enough to suggest that we tear down all of our democratic municipal, provincial or national governments, even though they aren’t perfect. In twenty years, if a democratic world parliament is in place and doing its work routinely, nobody will even think to suggest that we might be better off without it.
We have in front of us the opportunity to become the “founders” of the world of law and justice that must exist if humanity is to survive and thrive in the years 2500 or 25,000 or 250,000. This may be the greatest opportunity you will ever have, the chance to carve a path across this last political frontier. The task of building a new and democratic world parliament is not that difficult, but it is big—which means we should start immediately and work hard.
