We urgently need a new global system including everyone, with an equal voice, and global guarantees of human rights, including the freedom to relocate anywhere.
In short, we need a global democracy.
What would this mean? Let’s begin from first principles, and design the best system we can envision.
We propose these core principles:
- Everyone, everywhere, is included.
- Everyone has a direct voice in handling the global issues that affect us all.
- Every person’s vote counts equally.
- We are all accountable to each other; separate national sovereignty is phased out.
- Fundamental human rights are constitutionally guaranteed. These include freedoms of speech, assembly, movement, religion, privacy, and freedom from unreasonable search and seizure, rights to public information, due process of law, and a livable environment, and additional rights identified in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (discussed below under Argumentation / Core Values).
Although this set of principles may seem naively utopian at first glance, in fact it’s surprisingly achievable, as we’ll describe below.
We can do it within 10 to 20 years if we pull together.