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Summary

The article calls for politicians and elites to prioritize and fund essential quality of life improvements and environmental sustainability to achieve world peace.

Abstract

The author of "On World Peace" emphasizes the urgent need for a collective shift in focus from power and wealth accumulation to the preservation of our planet and the well-being of its inhabitants. The Earth's finite resources are being exploited, and the article warns of the consequences if we continue on this path of environmental degradation and societal discord. It advocates for a reallocation of resources towards addressing critical issues such as affordable housing, living wages, clean water, and reformed systems in education, healthcare, and prisons. The author argues that true world peace cannot be achieved without addressing these fundamental needs and that it requires cooperation across all levels of society, from individual actions to global policies, implemented with an intersectional approach that is anti-oppressive and anti-colonialist.

Opinions

  • The current pursuit of wealth and power is detrimental to the Earth and humanity's future.
  • There is an immediate need for a balance between monetary spending and quality of life improvements.
  • The article suggests that the power dynamics between the people and those in power are strained and must be repaired for the greater good.
  • The author believes that the restoration of the planet is contingent upon politicians choosing to end war tactics based on deception and to instead focus on positive collective change.
  • The article implies that the current generation has the responsibility to create a legacy that will have a lasting impact, even beyond our galaxy.
  • The author expresses a need for an intersectional, anti-oppressive, and anti-colonialist approach to address global issues.
  • The article encourages readers to support the author's work as an artist and facilitator in promoting these values.

On World Peace

Politicians and elites, we the “ordinary everyday people” need you

Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash

What is world peace without a habitable world to live in?

The Earth needs our help.

We cannot keep fighting one another aimlessly, seeking life on another planet only to continue the same pattern of dividing and conquering a foreign land, our connection to its inhabitants and each other–which always circles back to decimating our moral structure, depleting this trinity of nature we must learn to coexist with.

Whether you believe in a God, spiritual forces, or nothing above nor below, it remains that we are to have dominion over this land. But we haven’t been doing it well for quite some time now.

Favouring riches and the power absolute power holds has exploited the Earth of far more than our share of the goodness she lovingly and without question pours upon us willingly and abundantly.

But even she, in all her beauty and glory, can only take so much before we feel her roar place a reciprocated chokehold on the existential threat of our species.

Science has made this well known to us.

And who are we without the resources she supplies to us in water, earth, air, fire and multiple of creatures we have been given the good sense over time to control with a tempered, caring hand that is to apply values of balance, harmony and unity in our dealings with one another? First on a micro-scale within the self, then trickling out into the service we commit to within our communities and further out onto a macro, global level in collaboration with all nations.

The scales of justice must place the power of the people fully represented and supported with adequate access needs in equilibrium with the shifting of monetary spending budgets towards seriously quality of life-threatening, planet-threatening issues in order to work towards establishing world peace.

Politicians and elites, we need your help. We need serious funding and we can’t accomplish this while fighting each other based on our class differences among other things.

Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash

We need (but not limited to):

  • accessible, affordable housing
  • living wages
  • clean drinking water
  • reformed education systems
  • reformed healthcare systems
  • reformed prison systems

And most of all, we need to work together.

I can’t speak for those in power, but I sense the distrust that exists between “the people” and “state” also extends to established and broken relationships amongst governing parties. The restoration of our planet counts on the politicians to vote to lay down arms, end the trusted upon war tactics of deceit, trickery, and spilling blood for superficial interests and instead redirect powerful abilities towards fighting for collective positive change.

This must be done with an intersectional, anti-oppressive, anti-colonialist framework, because although nothing is new under the sun, a new day is dawning and our era we create together will be felt through the cosmos, shooting for the stars and maybe even past the Milky Way Galaxy…

If you’d like to support me as an artist and facilitator, buy me a coffee!

Marz (buymeacoffee.com)

Thank you for reading and take care!

♥♥♥

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