David Levy – Are We Ready for Change? – Oct 21

Societies are based on mutual respect and trust, but have we currently outlived their design and purpose?

The breakdown in global agreements such as the Common Fisheries Policy of Europe is such an example of individual greed overwhelming the common good.   We have an agreed Scientific Agency (ICES) promoting safe catch sizes for fish stocks in specific areas.   Yet each nation state has exceeded that recommended ICES catch limits.

No management authority holds nations to account, so the respect for agreements is at an all-time low.   As nations are the guilty parties, we have to look at moving to the next stage of global societal accountability.

It would be pointless to expect the United Nations to provide this global breakthrough as it is already a busted flush of an organisation.   It could never operate for the global good when the signatories can opt out of signing or following global agreements.

Our next stage of growth has to be a majority vote for global decisions, with no backing out.

Yet we are not at this stage of our global understanding.   Until we are we will just stumble from poor decisions to equally outrageous outcomes with the situations piling up on top of each other as the world heads for the end game.

What is required is a genuine debate organised at regional level, and then a pulling together so that a ‘world purpose’ can become more than just a wild concept .

Are we ready for such change now?

I have to say that I believe we are a long way from even acknowledging that we have problems and with no way of solving them.   Yet the clock is counting down.

David Levy