World Citizens League

Challenges abound The earth overshoot day is marking the day when humanity has consumed as much resources as may be used sustainably per year at maximum. That day tends to occur earlier each year, as the world population grows, and we tend to consumer more resource per capita each year. Only last year did it appear later than the year before on 2020-08-22. It is not difficult to see that the measures taken to combat the CoVid-19 pandemic are responsible for this extraordinary effect. Nevertheless, this does not at all mean that we can give the all-clear. On the contrary, if you look at a graphical representation of the annual positioning of Earth Overshoot Day over the last 50 years, you could easily confuse it with a burn-down diagram as used in modern agile project management. ^ Only difference is, that we don’t reduce a product backlog here, but burn down the entire planet, right down to zero. To not let this happen, now, more than ever seems it necessary to take a worldwide coordin...

Alte Klagen " Die Kinder von heute lieben Luxus; sie haben schlechte Manieren, sie missachten die Autorität; sie haben keinen Respekt mehr gegenüber den Alten und hängen lieber herum statt tätig zu sein. Die Kinder von heute sind Tyrannen, nicht mehr die Diener ihrer Haushalte. …” Diese Worte werden Sokrates (469-399 v. Chr.) zugeschrieben . Seither, und vermutlich sogar beginnend schon seit vor dieser Zeit, nehmen die Klagen über den gefühlten moralischen Verfall der jeweiligen zeitgenössischen Jugend kein Ende. Simple Logik legt allerdings nahe, dass der moralische Wert - wie auch immer er im Kontext der jeweiligen Periode definiert worden sein mag - nicht über 100 Generationen hinweg ständig abgenommen haben kann. Inzwischen wären wir alle zu asozialen Kretins geworden. Vielmehr scheinen die Alten, die sich da beschweren, mit ihrer subjektiven Wahrnehmung völlig falsch zu liegen.  Zumindest scheinen sie vergessen zu haben, dass sie selbst einmal jung waren und vol...

The right to complain “ The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. …” These words are attributed to Socrates (469–399 B.C.). Since then and probable even before those times, the complaints about the perceived moral decay of the respective contemporary youth have not ceased. Simple logic suggests, that moral worth – however it may be defined in the particular period’s context – cannot have been steadily deteriorating over 100 generations. We would have all become anti-social criminals by now. Rather there seems to be something completely wrong with the subjective perception of those elders, who emit the complaints. At minimum they seem to have forgotten that they themselves once were young and full of ideals, desires – and nonsense. Moreover, do they have any right to complain this way? Can the elder gen...