A vision for the world

By 2040, I promise a world in which every child has a loving, healthy, and abundant environment, with peace, justice, and freedom for all.

   This promise provides new global conditions, including a global cooperation to foster peace, with ideas such as global war games, in which wars can be fought, and won or lost, without casualties, but rather as a sharply-fought contest. A new paradigm exists regarding the concept of borders for nations, that people are global citizens first, then citizens of a country secondly. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights has been established as law for all nations.

    In the arena of global warming, another paradigm shift occurs, into the Post-Oil Era. This new Sustainable Era uses renewable energy, produces little waste, reuses or recycles, and reflects the true cost of products (with the entire life cycle and resource impacts, including transportation). The economic power of sustainability has created entirely new industries, providing a new source of profession for millions, including in less developed nations, with clean energy as a powerful engine moving world economies into greater prosperity. As a result, the rate of climate change has changed course, polar ice caps are intact, and the impacts minimized. There is a balance.

    Vaccines has been developed to end the greatest diseases of the world, including tuberculosis, AIDS and malaria. The internet and modern medical advances (given homegrown energy) are available to all people, regardless of location; all people have access to medical care and treatment.

    A paradigm shift occurs globally, in which females and males (gay or straight) of all ethnicities and religions, are appreciated as individuals, equally valued, and as integral members of a larger, beautifully diverse, community. With this shift, new possibilities arise, of a low infant mortality rate, of a strong global economy, of new standards of health care. Women unleash their leadership for the world, and appear in positions of national and international stature.

    The environment thrives, with all people fostered to grow as well (physically, mentally, emotionally, spiritually, artistically, and compassionately), and to develop new capacities. This provides for children, future generations, and all life, such that all living creatures on the planet thrive as well, in a strong state of biodiversity, in which there is a balance of interconnected species.

    A new generation of humans takes the stage, who complete areas of past injury, forging a new global partnership of interconnectedness, which allows for breakthroughs in science, space exploration, global health care, and the common thriving of the planet's people, environments and eco-systems. The common human culture sees that all life is connected.

    The need for many children per family decreases as the mortality rate drops (with increased prosperity, sanitation and health care), and the population naturally levels off to stabilize, reducing the competition for resources, and allowing for environmental balance. When survival as an issue diminishes, creative human potential is unlocked and set free. Art, music, philosophy, and spirituality reach a level never before seen in human history. New paradigms of spirituality allow for new ideas, in a global conversation bigger than borders. In this thriving world, people are free to express themselves, and to pursue happiness.

    Conversations for transformation are available for all people, at the level of institutions. Education includes this, and is available for all. This allows for a shift in what the global culture sees as possible. Entire discourses suddenly transform. Philanthropy, an engine for social justice, increases with the wealth of the people.

In a world that works for everyone, all are celebrated for their diversity; and love is the most powerful force in the universe.