The Earth System Treaty
Julian Cribb, best-selling Australian author of How to Fix a Broken Planet, is the leading voice behind The Earth System Treaty. It is now the primary cultural initiative presented to the world by The Council for the Human Future.
As a journalist and the author of Virtue, I believe The Earth System Treaty is a culturally pivotal idea made for the moment. It can be a cross-cultural beacon that can bring our Earth’s people together behind life-affirming common purpose.
Fortunately, in the face of all the looming threats hanging over the human culture, we do have something new in the 21st century that offers hope for the future. For the first time in history, humans are connected cross-culturally by computers, cellphones, and the social media. Just when there is an unprecedented need, we have the capacity to share powerful messages like the Earth System Treaty across our planet in real time.
Common purpose is something that all humans must come together behind. More than a few worthy initiatives have had the aspiration of rallying the world’s people together behind common purpose. To this point, none of those worthy efforts have managed to gain traction on anything close to a global scale.
The Earth System Treaty was designed from its inception to resonate across cultures. It is the beacon of common purpose and commitment our world so desperately needs.
Julian Cribb, best-selling Australian author of How to Fix a Broken Planet, is the leading voice behind The Earth System Treaty. It is now the primary cultural initiative presented to the world by The Council for the Human Future.
As a journalist and the author of Virtue, I believe The Earth System Treaty is a culturally pivotal idea made for the moment. It can be a cross-cultural beacon that can bring our Earth’s people together behind life-affirming common purpose.
Fortunately, in the face of all the looming threats hanging over the human culture, we do have something new in the 21st century that offers hope for the future. For the first time in history, humans are connected cross-culturally by computers, cellphones, and the social media. Just when there is an unprecedented need, we have the capacity to share powerful messages like the Earth System Treaty across our planet in real time.
Common purpose is something that all humans must come together behind. More than a few worthy initiatives have had the aspiration of rallying the world’s people together behind common purpose. To this point, none of those worthy efforts have managed to gain traction on anything close to a global scale.
The Earth System Treaty was designed from its inception to resonate across cultures. It is the beacon of common purpose and commitment our world so desperately needs.
Principles of the Earth System Treaty
- A universal ban on nuclear weapons
- An international plan to combat climate change
- An international plan to restore forests, soils, fresh waters, oceans, atmosphere and biodiversity to stable, sustainable levels and end extinction
- An international agreement to operate a circular economy and end waste
- A plan for a renewable world food supply sufficient for all
- A plan to end universal chemical pollution in all forms.
- A plan to reduce the human population voluntarily to a sustainable level.
- A PLAN TO ANTICIPATE AND PREVENT FUTURE PANDEMIC DISEASES.
- A Global Technology Convention to oversee the safe development and introduction of dangerous new sciences and technologies and minimize the harms they cause.
- A World Truth Commission, to combat and expose all media distortion and disinformation
- An Earth Standard Currency
- All 17 of the Sustainable Development Goals
- All 16 of the principles enunciated in the Earth Charter
- All of the Safe Global Boundaries described by the Stockholm Resilience Institute.
As an author and activist, I am fully committed to the Earth System Treaty and its ambition to become a global-scale idea all the world will choose to rally behind.
The Earth System Treaty: A Necessary Framework to Repair our Planet – The Planetary Press – Author’s interview with Julian Cribb
The First Whole Earth Cultural Movement – Human Redemption and the Earth System Treaty – by Geoffrey Holland