Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.

CARL SAGAN

Carl Sagan’s comments written 25 years ago still presents a stunning perspective on ourselves.

A sustainable Earth for us all.

I believe that all current problems of the earth have derived from humanity’s vicious cycle and they can only be solved by achieving a single world state belonging to all humans and creations of Earth.

You too can believe it while humming John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’ song.

A sustainable Earth

ust being an environmentalist will not be sufficient to transform us to a sustainable world. Sustainability can only be achieved by combining a humane with an environmentalist approach. Because you cannot protect the environment and ecology when people are at war with each other geographically, racially and politically. We cannot protect trees, water, biodiversity while bombs fall and schemes are set for destruction.

The idea of a single world state; We have only one world. Everyone’s world. So why not having one State? Everyone’s state. Is it possible?

Think of the USA. It consists of 50 autonomous states. Germany consists of 16 autonomous states. The EU consists of 27 independent countries. These are just three examples that work well. So why not have a single world state consisting of 150 united states? A United States of the World.

If you’re not convinced, please turn up the music!

Sharing the world’s resources fairly will solve all our problems.

All wars in history and all future wars are about not sharing the world and its resources. We fight, destroy each other and the environment because some in the world covets the rights of others. We say only mine, not yours. My oil, my water, my medicine, my resources. However, California also benefits from Texas’ oil. Nebraska also benefits from California’s technology revenues. Germany’s taxes are turning into investments in Portugal. Why not invest in Sudan? Migration ends, war ends, hunger ends, pandemics end.

Local democracies have lost their function.

There are currently functioning democracies in the world, but democracies foresee a fair distribution of existing rights and resources within their own communities. The democracies in question are not concerned with protecting the rights of neighboring societies or of all humanity. Moreover, democracies takes up arms and fights in case others covet the resources they consider their own. For this reason, ‘local democracies’ which provide fair distribution within their own society are insufficient as a sustainable solution for the entire Earth because they treat the society at another end of the world unfairly. Migration exists in a world where there is unequal sharing. Those who lack resources go to the source. Throughout history, major migrations have been due to unshared resources.

Now is the time do something different!

Environmentalism and Climate change:

If there would be a single world government, we could protect the world against climate change. Our neighbor’s environmental policies affect us. Where there is no global environmentalism, the local environment suffers. China’s coal affects Sweden’s climate. Why is China burning coal? Because China believes that they can protect their existence and prosper only by producing more, out of competition anxiety.

Democracy, prosperity and justice:

There is no democracy if the rights of every person in the world are equal. Democracy, like environmentalism, can only be a solution to the world if it is applied globally. Where there is no global democracy, there will be migration, and it will challenge local democracies. Human migration caused by Mexico’s economic and political problems is endangering America’s democracy. The dictatorship in Syria threatens and wears out Turkey’s democracy. The poverty of Libya, Somalia and Afghanistan affects Sweden’s prosperity and tranquility. The overwhelming majority of the negative news that appear on TV are a product of unequal sharing of resources of the world.

Re-read and memorize Carl Sagan’s last paragraph!

So how can we fairly distribute all the earth’s resources among all the earth’s people?

There are currently successful examples: USA, EU and Germany. What the USA has accomplished for 50 states can also be achieved by a single united world state consisting of 150 states. The subject should be looked at with a 30-50-year perspective, because the idea needs to settle in people’s minds and develop.

Sound utopian and marginal?

Remember that 30-40 years ago the Green Party was once considered a marginal ‘tree-hugging’ party, but today, even though it doesn’t have a green label in its name, a political party without policies on sustainability and environmentalism is unlikely to succeed.

I fully believe that young people who see that true sustainability can only be achieved by combining humane sharing together with environmentalism may eventually be able to realize the dream of uniting the world under one single world state!

It’s time to protect our pale blue dot and share it with justice and love.

I am happy to share the message of the Pale Blue Dot through my works.

Sincerely,
Kaan Yıldırım