Attention!
What can be found below is not a prescription or demand. It’s an invitation.
It’s an invitation to accept responsibility for our world, to heed the call to leadership, to embark on a collective quest to bring about the changes our planet and people so desperately need, and create the future we all know is possible.
It’s an invitation to unite under one banner — as Global Citizens — to create a digital country (AKA network state), a country where all are welcome.
There are hundreds of millions — if not billions — of global citizens in the world. People who see themselves more as part of a global collective than a single nation. We are raising raising a flag around which global citizens can unite, to come together to work on addressing the dire crises that define our era and create a foundation for humanity for the centuries to come.
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This could be the most important century in the history of our species.
The coming years will determine whether tree of life will flourish beyond imagination or wither and collapse under the immense weight of our collective actions
Existential threats call humanity's chance of surviving this century into question.
Billions of people still live in poverty and privation, left behind as developed countries pursue their own interests.
Nation-states prioritize their own interests over global concerns due to the concept of sovereignty. The United Nations lacks the authority to intervene in domestic matters. This self-interest often harms shared global resources like oceans, air, and rainforests.
In the past, individual countries had limited global impact due to their size and resources. However, things have changed dramatically. Now, the actions of one country can have severe global consequences. Countries, once seen as pillars of stability and prosperity, now threaten our very existence.
To address the planet's challenges and help those in need, we require a new approach. The current international system is not built to tackle these significant problems. We need a fresh model that we, as global citizens, can create.
Global coordination is necessary to address these challenges but our existing institutions have proven they are not up to the challenge.
Urgent planetary action is necessary. There’s an opportunity yet to be seized, a way to create a new model that works for the planet and all who call it home.
Things don’t need to be this way.
You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
— Buckminster Fuller
The Proposal
Across our planet, there are millions of people who see themselves as global citizens more than citizens of their country. We recognize the interconnectedness of our lives and the planet we share. We know that a better world is possible.
We now have the technologies to give this latent identity of global citizenship, this shared feeling planetary unity and duty, a form, a unified structure to channel our collective will and begin to address the global challenges we face.
Our aim is to unite global citizens around the world and create a digital country that anyone can join. As a united entity that spans the globe, we can take the first steps towards building a truly planetary society, where all human beings live dignified lives in harmony with the natural world.
"Is this even realistic?"
Our aims may seem absurd, impossible, a colossal utopian dream with little chance of success.
But we should not tame our ambitions for fear of their magnitude and the shadows they cast.
What follows is a potential pathway.
Phase One
The first phase will focus on providing the seeds of a new collective narrative. Something that we can look to guide us as we move into the increasingly uncertain future.
Our goal here is to outline a new world view, to get people to ask themselves whether or not we should accept the way the world is and to start asking what should it be like. As consequence of this will be attracting founding citizens. As our list of founding citizens grows, we will establish Global Citizens United chapters in cities around the world - in-person community groups that allows them to congregate with other citizens in their own cities.
Phase Two
Having established a community of citizens, this next phase has three primary focuses.
Create and empower local action groups whose aim is to influence local, regional, and national politics in their respective countries to align with planetary needs.
Develop digital infrastructure and services with the aim of delivering as much value to our citizens as possible. Why digital services? Because it is only through the internet that we can reach beyond borders and deliver access to freedom-preserving and empowering solutions to people around the world, many of whom live in countries controlled by oppressive regimes.
Endeavour to ensure internet access is available to everyone on Earth. Internet access is crucial as it is not only necessary to be a part of this digital country, but also because it is the ultimate tool of freedom and opportunity.
Phase Three
As our society, economy, and influence grows to a point where it rivals and exceeds that of smaller nations, we will be in position where gaining diplomatic recognition as a country is possible.
According to international law, to become a legitimate country, we need a government, a defined territory, a permanent population, and the capacity to enter into relations with other states.
Each of these is an attainable for our digital country, though not in the order they are above.
In order to take on the planetary challenges we face and uplift the billions of people left behind, a new model is needed. The existing international system is incapable of addressing these grand problems by design. Change will not come from within. A new model is necessary, a model that we as global citizens can create.
The time is now
We’re the only glint of Life we know of in the expansive speckled ocean of darkness we call the Universe. Our actions today have cosmic consequences.
The generations of humans alive to today — you reading this right now — have a responsibility. We have a responsibility to accept the sins of the past and the current state of the world and take on the collective challenge we face. We must embrace our role as custodians of our planet Earth and tend to the garden of life.
Accepting this responsibility and the role you can play could be your most radical act. The act we need.
"If not us, who?
And if not now, when?"
To the leaders,
ready to chart a new path, awaiting the spark.
To the nurturers,
suffering as you gaze upon a dying world, longing for community and regeneration.
To the dreamers,
who know what can be, who know of the splendorous world we can create.
To the builders,
who know how it can be done.
To you,
reading this at this moment.
If you’ve been waiting for the call, this is it.
Join us as we write the next chapter of Life.
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