Germain Dufour

Founder and Spiritual Leader of the Global Community

President, Global Parliament and Federation of Global Governments

http://globalcommunitywebnet.com/Dialogue2010/Portal2010.htm

Global Community WebNet Ltd.

Chairman of the Board for the development of the Federations's Constitution

http://globalcommunitywebnet.com/Constitution/MainIndex.htm

Coauthor of the Global Peace Science (GPS):

http://peacefromharmony.org/docs/global-peace-science-2016.pdf

My 3 articles in the GPS book

1.“Global Community for Global Peace” (pages 296-298),

2.“From WWII, Syria and now the Ukraine: Global Community perspective.” (342-345),

3.“Global Community: Support of Russia, Putin and Peace” (423-425).

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Dear Leo,

        You and your tech team have done a super job posting my info and creating a special webpage for me and Global Community (http://peacefromharmony.org/?cat=en_c&key=695). Thanks a whole lot. Scrolling at the info I see you have added me to the list (http://peacefromharmony.org) of people I have always admired and looked up to over the years, and I have realized how special are all of those people who are now o­n your main website and actively participating with you in creating Peace from Harmony.
         I feel honoured to be a part of this great work you have created over the years, Leo. Thank you my friend. Global Community thanks you for the work of Global Peace Science (GPS), the science of social harmony approach to attain Peace in the world. You are great Leo.

         Thank you.

          Keep in touch Leo.

          Germain

          11/06/16

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Paper Summary:
Vision of a new economic system to replace America economic, population, military and environmental wars
against our world, Earth.

by
Germain Dufour
Global Civilization

Note to the reader:

The four chapters of October 2018 Newsletter were based o­n the articles, letters, reports, research papers, discussions and global dialogues, and messages written by author(s) whose work were published in monthly Newsletters of years mostly 2017 and 2018. All published work can be found in the Global Dialogue Proceedings (check link http://globalcommunitywebnet.com/GIMProceedings/). Scroll down to years 2017 and 2018 and follow the Proceedings sections, and you will find the actual authors lists, with their papers and all references. Global Community Media is a way to communicate workable sound solutions to problems arising in the world. Let us share our problems and workable sound solutions. Sharing information is a necessity to all life and humanity's survival. Our world is changing fast before our eyes, and we must react quickly and hard to protect all life o­n Earth. No hesitation! Right now and no waiting! Life o­n the planet is our first priority. We must protect it at all costs. We, global citizens, fight to protect life o­n Earth for this generation and the next o­nes. We are the defenders of the environment and the global life-support systems. We know who the beasts are, and how they destroy the living o­n our planet. We have rallied together all over the world to protect our home, Earth. Just so you all know we don't pay anyone, and we don't pay expenses. We do volunteer work for humanity. We expect volunteers to be responsible and accountable of all their actions. We do soft activism work. We do not have a copyright research expert to do this work. In order to create a harmonious and compassionate Global Civilization, and to protect our planetary environment, the global life-support systems, we want to help you concerning all issues, and you may become a volunteer yourself. Check our volunteer page at: http://globalcommunitywebnet.com/GPA/gpahelpsyou.htm

Introduction and conclusion for all four Chapters.

Chapter I

http://globalcommunitywebnet.com/Dialogue2019/Newsletters/October2018/introduction_and_conclusionedited1.html#chapter1

Chapter II

http://globalcommunitywebnet.com/Dialogue2019/Newsletters/October2018/introduction_and_conclusionedited1.html#chapter2

Chapter III

http://globalcommunitywebnet.com/Dialogue2019/Newsletters/October2018/introduction_and_conclusionedited1.html#chapter3

Chapter IV

http://globalcommunitywebnet.com/Dialogue2019/Newsletters/October2018/introduction_and_conclusionedited1.html#chapter4

Summary

Back to October 2018 Newsletter
http://globalcommunitywebnet.com/Dialogue2019/Newsletters/October2018/index.html
Back to Main Table of Contents.
http://globalcommunitywebnet.com/Dialogue2019/Newsletters/October2018/Our_world_Earth_Table_of_Contents.html

This 21st century is very crucial for humanity as it will determine our survival or not as a species and, consequently, the survival of the next generations. The Biosphere is our world, our home. The lives of all lifeforms and plants o­n our planet deserve protection, preservation, and care. The genomic information of plants, animals, and human beings is the common wealth of the planet, and all efforts to make use of this environmental commons must be framed around principles of equality, solidarity, environmental and climate justice.

Global Civilization disapproves of the limitless exploitation of the natural foundations of life, the relentless destruction of the biosphere, and the militarization of the space within and above the Earth's atmosphere. Several important causes of Global Warming, Climate Change, and the extinction crisis, have given rise of an existential threat to humanity and much of Nature.

Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, developed economies have been emitting greenhouse gases (GHGs) which created global warming and today's environmental crisis, and that makes the capitalism system responsible, and we must first change it. By far, the nation that started, and still is pursuing the largest production of GHGs ever since WWII is America. And America is largely responsible for the global warming of the planet and, therefore the increase in the Earth’s surface temperature, the rising of sea level, climate change, and many other worldwide disasters. Unlimited fossil fuel exploitation means a commitment to GHG pollution over 16 times greater than the world’s present remaining Terminal Carbon Pollution Budget that must not be exceeded if we are to have a 75% chance of avoiding a catastrophic 2C temperature rise. America is to be blamed for the extinction crisis, and should pay.

The extinction crisis is an environmental issue and also a social justice issue, o­ne that is linked to long histories of capitalist domination over people, animals, and plants. The extinction crisis needs to be seen as a key element in contemporary struggles against accumulation by dispossession. This crisis, in other words, ought to be a key issue in the fight for climate justice.

The 1% people have as much wealth as half the world's population, and are controlling all economies o­n the planet. They stand behind a capitalist model of an economic system.

Capitalism has institutionalized a global ignorance, in which producers and consumers cannot know or care about o­ne another, and in which the histories of all products will be lost. It is now increasingly evident that o­nly by sharing the world's natural resources more equitably and sustainably will we be able to address both the ecological and social crisis we face as Global Civilization.

The combined effects of aggressive marketing, advertising, and planned product obsolescence mean that the American consumer’s oversized footprint is largely a consequence and reflection of the global power of Transnational Corporations(TNCs), corporate America. Global warming and climate change denialism requires shutting o­ne’s eyes to obvious realities when the truth is that the Earth is warmer than it has been in 120,000 years. In that sense, it is perhaps more accurate to speak of corporate ecological footprints rather than the footprints of nations or individuals. Globalization has meant the distancing of cause and effect, source and sink, so that the pollution and human exploitation caused in the production and transport of goods has remained invisible and opaque to consumers.

How can further troubles not come into being when a vicious globalized capitalist system is in existence for which maximal profits, not people and their needs, is always the overriding goal? The global socioeconomic system of capitalism is forcing us to work harder to surpass previous consumption and population numbers until we have devoured everything that maintains life, ending up with a polluted, lifeless, and a scorched planet.

What is going o­n today is largely attributable to the failure of growth-based capitalism. We need to address the structural deficiencies in the existing system. To maintain a general satisfaction in a social system that’s driven and motivated with competition, endless growth is needed, but in a finite system it must end when resources are exhausted. However, we also have a double whammy, that of pollution which impairs life and the carbon that’s heating the biosphere and acidifying the oceans, they would end life if the system is maintained to its exhaustion.

Economic growth (measured as Gross Domestic Product) and value are seen as the same. Meanwhile, the actual value generated outside of market capitalism – the “care economy,” social labor, eco-stewardship, digital communities and commons – are mostly ignored or considered merely personal (“values”). Today, we have a dictatorship of o­ne kind of value as delivered by the market system, which determines for everyone how they can live and what they should believe in.

The word “value” is useful to merchants and economists in talking about money and markets. But it has little relevance when talking about ethical living or the human condition. Hence, with the dollar as world money the US gains an automatic borrowing mechanism giving it global policy autonomy denied other states. Given a current account deficit financed by savings of others in the world, US government spending o­n global militarization and other priorities can expand without “crowding out” private sector borrowing.

The main source of economic reliability in America was transferred over time from gold to dollars, specifically to US treasury bills. This major shift allowed the Federal Reserve to print dollars practically without limit (as seen in recent years with interests rates for borrowing money from the FED at around 0%), well aware that the demand for dollars would never cease, this also keeping alive huge sectors of private and public enterprises (such as the coal industry, fracking industry, car manufacturing, food and farming industries, and most importantly the military industry which has always giving jobs to more than half of America's population). This set a course for a global economic system based o­n financial instruments like derivatives and other securities instead of real, tangible goods like gold. In doing this for its own benefit, the US has created the conditions for a new financial bubble that could even bring down the entire world economy when it bursts.

To become great again, the US parlayed the world’s largest national debt, its trade deficit, budget deficit, capital account deficit and savings rate deficit, into a position in the global driver seat through the dollar remaining global hub currency.

Naturally, the more the dollar was used in the world, the more America had the power to spend o­n the military. For the US, paying a bill of 6 trillion dollars (this is the cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan) has been effortless, and this constitutes an unparalleled advantage over countries like China and Russia whose military spending in comparison is a fifth and a tenth respectively.

The United States found itself in the enviable position of being able to print pieces of paper (simply IOU’s) without any gold backing and then exchange them for real goods from other nations.

This economic arrangement has allowed America to achieve an unparalleled strategic advantage over its geopolitical opponents (initially the USSR, now Russia and China), namely, a practically unlimited dollar spending capacity even as it accumulates an astronomical public debt (over 21 trillion dollars). The destabilizing factor for the global economy has been America's ability to accumulate enormous amounts of public debt without having to worry about the consequences or even of any possible mistrust international markets may have for the dollar. Countries simply needed dollars for trade and bought US treasures to diversify their financial assets.

What would be the shape and fundamental goals of an expansive anti-capitalist movement against extinction and for environmental justice? It would have to commence with open recognition by the developed nations of the long history of ecocide. Such an admission would lead to a consequent recognition of the biodiversity debt owed by the wealthy nations of the global North to the South. Building o­n the demands articulated by the climate justice movement, the anti-capitalist conservation movement must demand the repayment of this biodiversity debt.

This proposal is based o­n moving towards a situation in which all nations have the same level of emissions per person (convergence) while contracting them to a level that is sustainable (contraction). A country such as the United States, which has o­nly 5% of the global population, would be allowed no more than 5% of globally sustainable emissions. Such a move would represent a dramatic anti-imperialist shift since the US is at present responsible for 25% of carbon emissions. The powerful individuals and corporations that control nations like the US are not likely to accept such revolutionary curtailments of the wasteful system that supports them without a struggle. Already there is abundant evidence that they would sooner destroy the planet than let even a modicum of their power slip.

Massive fossil fuel corporations such as Exxon, for example, have funded climate change denialism for the past quarter century despite abundant evidence from their own scientists that burning fossil fuels was creating unsustainable environmental conditions. Such behavior should be seen frankly for what it is: a crime against humanity. We should not expect to negotiate with such destructive entities. Their assets should be seized. Most of these assets, in the form of fossil fuel reserves, cannot be used anyway if we are to avert environmental catastrophe. What remains of these assets should be used to fund a rapid, managed reduction in carbon emissions and a transition to renewable energy generation. These steps should be part of a broader program to transform the current, unsustainable capitalist system that dominates the world into steady state societies founded o­n principles of equality and environmental justice.

A legally imposed contraction of the fossil energy supply and a rapid global conversion to renewable energy, is a necessary step toward saving our world, Earth. So what should Society do to avoid the worst impacts of climate change? Capitalism is based o­n ceaseless compound growth that is destroying ecosystems the world over, the goal in the rich nations of the global North must be to overturn our present expansionary system by fostering de-growth . Most importantly, nations that have benefited from burning fossil fuels must radically cut their carbon emissions in order to stem the lurch towards runaway climate chaos that endangers the vast majority of current terrestrial forms of life.

12-10-18

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Volume 14 Issue 8 April 2016 Theme for this month: Global Community days of celebration in May
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http://globalcommunitywebnet.com/Dialogue2016/Newsletter/April2016/index.html

My short Bio

Education

M.Sc. (Honours), Physics, University of Québec at Trois-Rivières, Québec, 1982

B.Sc. (Honours),Physics, University of Victoria, British Columbia,1976

Scientific publications and internal reports prior to 1985 are shown at http://globalcommunitywebnet.com/globalcommunity/ecoexecutive.htm#AA

Achievements

In 1985, developed and defined the global concepts of 'Global Community' and 'Global Dialogue'. Established a Global Dialogue between people, businesses, communities and nation governments. The global concepts are concerned about:

A) Humanity resolving global problems in a peaceful way for the benefit of all Peoples and Life o­n Earth;

B) Promoting Peace in the world through dialogue;

C) Finding sound and equitable solutions to local and global problems; and

D) Helping humanity survive this Century, taking along and protecting as much as possible other lifeforms.

Measured environmental, social and economic indicators to evaluate global societal sustainability.

Developed policies, strategies and legislative documents for the Earth Community Organization (ECO), the Global Community.

Proposed to the United Nations (U.N.)a federation of all Nations, Earth Government, and the Global Constitution, a governing body based o­n democracy for all Peoples o­n Earth.

Conducted the research and development of humanity's new vision which is about living a life and seeing the world through the:

•Scale of Global Rights;

•Politics and Justice without borders;

•Life is protected by Global Law;

•Global Citizens Rights, Responsibility and Accountability Act;

•Statement of Rights, Responsibilities and Accountabilities of a Person and the Global Community;

•Building of global symbiotical relationships between people, institutions, cities, provinces and nations of the world;

•Global Constitution;

•Portal of the Global Civilization;

•Federation of Global Governments;

•Global Protection Agency;

•Global Community Peace Movement;

•Global Justice Movement;

•Global Movement to Help and serve the people of all nations.

Volume 12 Issue 10 June2014 Theme for this month: From WW II, Syria and now the Ukraine: Global Community perspective
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http://globalcommunitywebnet.com/Dialogue2014/Newsletters/June2014/index.html

Short description and history of the Global Community, Earth Government and the Federation of Global Governments.

The Global Community organization, Earth Government and the Federation of Global Governments were founded in 1985 in Calgary, Canada by Germain Dufour, Prophet of God, Spiritual Leader and President, and further developed through Global Parliament meetings. Later o­n in 1990s he was joined by his wife, Virginie, in the developing of many global concepts. Symbiotical relationships were defined to show the path for a better world. The Federation was formed to replace the United Nations. Its basic proposal is a de-centralized global government. A Global Government offers essential services to the people where it operates and the Federation main function is to serve all people and help in this process with the formation of Global Ministries to protect all life o­n the planet. Essential services to the people of each member nation are now the most important global rights o­n the Scale of Global Rights and are protected by the Global Protection Agency (GPA) of each member nation whose function is to enforce Global Law as defined in the Global Constitution. The Scale is the fundamental guide to Global Law which itself includes legislation coveringall essential aspects of human activities. That is how we will bring about the event of Peace amongst us all and give security to all people, all life o­n Earth.

More can be read concerning the history of the organization at http://globalcommunitywebnet.com/GIMProceedings/anniversary19852007.htm

History of the Global Community organization, Earth Government and the Federation of Global Governments

http://globalcommunitywebnet.com/globalcommunity/2005JulyNewsletter.htm

http://globalcommunitywebnet.com/GIMProceedings/GNewsOct2007.htm#freedom

For more extensive description of my background read: http://globalcommunitywebnet.com/GPA/gimshortBiogdufour.htm and

http://globalcommunitywebnet.com/globalcommunity/ecoexecutive.htm

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