Natural Laws - The Challenge

Isn’t it strange that humans spend so much time inventing and enforcing laws yet completely ignore the natural ones that have controlled the way our planet functions for millions of years. The world is ruled by certain laws which include gravity, and by certain processes including ecology of which the water cycle.

One of the reasons that there is a problem is that we, as the consuming public can demand of politicians’ instant responses and of businesses short term gains in preference to long term wealth creation. Politicians therefore dare not admit to short term mistakes and businesses try to hide short term losses from shareholders. We need instead to start to look long term as to where we are going and why.

One of these Natural Laws is the process of exponential (that is very rapid to you and me) growth in populations followed by their collapse as their food and natural resources are all used up, for example by too many elephants which destroy their own food supply.

You will have heard that before so what’s new, but if Worldwiders knew that 40 years ago (which they did because I remember campaigning 30 years ago with people who had been saying it for at least ten years), then why are we producing products that are hugely polluting and that can’t be broken down into natural products for reuse or disposal?

So, more than twenty years before the first mobile phone, before the home computer, email and the World Wide Web, before most people had a television or a phone at home, before man on the moon, Worldwiders knew. Before we knew about climate change Worldwiders knew that you must respect natural laws. Today (September 2007) politicians in the UK announced a bold new initiative, to be carbon neutral by 2050 in the UK, nearly 100 years later than Worldwiders knew. It is pathetic that our leading visionary politicians are 100 years behind Worldwiders because the current model is a top down approach, even with focus groups.

Our thesis then is that we have to reverse this – we need to be 100 years and more ahead in our thinking, not behind!! Key spiritual visionaries with a world wide vision like Jesus, Buddha, Gandhi, Mohammed, gave guidance for man and woman kind.

Then there are key visionaries in their own fields like Dr Martin Luther King (human rights), Aung Sang Suu Kyi (Burmese Human Rights), Chad Varah (Founder of The Samaritans) Nelson Mandela (human rights and democratic freedom), Desmond Tutu (reconciliation) ,Richard Branson (enterprise) and Anita Roddick (ethical Business), Albert Einstein (Science), Steven Hawking (astrophysics) ,Peter Gabriel and Bob Dylan (music with a worldwide message), Bob Geldof (developing world), William Morris (arts, business, social justice and environment), David Bellamy (Environment and search for the scientific truth not propaganda about Climate Change) Rachel Carson (author of Silent Spring which helped launch the environmental movement) , Joseph Rowntree (social housing and community), John Seymour (author of Self Sufficiency), Jamie Oliver and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (Healthy and Local
food), Clive Stafford Smith (justice for many innocent people on death row in the USA), were/are already there and have changed the world for the better. As well as many scores of others – compile a list from your own country and submit it to the Worldwider Foundation.

Another issue is oil and our unhealthy dependency on it. We have now passed peak world oil reserves so from now on oil will be running out. As Worldwiders we know that this is already causing wars, famine, disease and global instability. At the same time most products we buy are packaged in armour plated plastic made using loads of oil that requires a saw to get through.

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