Beginning the Game

II.        Beginning the Game – With the Magic of Change

We now embark upon an adventurous and mysterious trip, not only through the history of our Earth. It is a trip through space and time, through heaven and hell, with light and shadows in which the competitors duel. Readers will be amazed at the idea that sounds so absurd as well as its seemingly impossible realization, and at the end they will be surprised how simple the solution can be and what secret lies behind it.

Bertold Brecht said:

“Truth can only be spread with guile.”

“To accomplish something difficult, you have to make it easy for yourself.”

Sean Connery says:

“There’s nothing like a challenge
to bring out the best in man.”

This primer will be an enormous challenge for its readers.

Many readers will recognize their knowledge and their deeds. Most readers will come away with new insights. If we jointly learn the lessons from it, we will make significant progress:

Message 1: For a Life on Earth in the “United Peoples of the World”

Message 2: For Love, Forgiveness, Sharing, Peace and Freedom

Message 3: For One Creed

Message 4: For a Fundamental Right to Education

Message 5: For Renewable Energy

Message 6: Against Fossil Energy

Message 7: Against Hunger and Thirst

Message 8: Against the Abuse of Religions

Message 9: Against Greed

Message 10: Against War

Erich Kästner said:

Whenever mischief happens, not only those are to blame who commit it,
but also those who do not prevent it.

Mahatma Gandhi said:

“The world of tomorrow will be, must be a society based on non-violence. That is the first law; out of it all other blessings will flow. It may seem a distant goal, an impractical Utopia. But it is not in the least unobtainable, since it can be worked for here and now. An individual can adopt the lifestyle of the future, the non-violent way, without having to wait for others to do so. And if an individual can do it, cannot whole groups of individuals? Whole nations? People often hesitate to make a beginning because they feel that the objective cannot be achieved in its entirety. This attitude of mind is precisely our greatest obstacle to progress, an obstacle that each person, if they only will it, can clear away.”

Queen Elizabeth II said:

“I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your service and the service of the great imperial family to which we all belong. But I shall not have the strength to carry out this resolution alone unless you join in it with me, as I now invite you to do.”

Oscar Wilde said:

„Wisdom is to have dreams big enough
not to lose sight when we pursue them!“

Anselm Grün says:

„Every new beginning at first generates fear. It means having to break with what is familiar. And when I make the break, I do not yet know what will happen to me. The unknown creates a feeling of fear in me. A promise is ensconced in the break at the same time, the promise of something new, something that didn’t exist before, never seen before. Those who do not continuously make the break, their lives become moribund. When something does not change, it becomes old and stuffy. New chances in life want to sally forth in us. Many people aspire to a life that unfolds without dangers. They believe they have to insure themselves against all dangers so that nothing can go wrong. But the more we protect ourselves, the more insecure we become. And ultimately we don’t dare to do anything. Everything has to be insured. Don’t risk anything without enough security. That increasingly leads to torpidity, as the political and economic situation today demonstrates clearly enough. We will only get out of this dead end if we risk something, even if we risk making a mistake.“

Hugh Jackman says:

“I don’t want to ever say ‘no’ to something and then later sit somewhere and think: I wish I had had the courage to do it.”

Billy Joe Armstrong (Green Day) says:

“It’s better to regret something you have done
than to regret something you haven’t done.”

Norbert Lammert says:

“It is not easy to change the world,
but the attempt is worth it and sometimes overdue.”

The countless voices crying for peace, freedom and justice demonstrate the necessity of new values and new rules. They challenge us to speak out against outmoded, parochial and selfserving behavior. For us, they are a powerful force and a great incentive for the future, which begins today!

An urgent appeal to all and especially:

To the 196 nations of this world that agreed to a new global climate treaty on December 12, 2015 and which must ratify this agreement in their legislatures as soon as possible so that the global agreement can go into effect with productive and measurable national action

Agreement of December 12, 2015

Signing on April 22, 2016

Obligation to decarbonize our Earth by prohibiting fossil greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 at the latest - analogous to the ban on asbestos and CFCs!

On “Earth Day” on April 22, 2016, representatives of 175 nations signed the world climate agreement at a meeting of the United Nations in New York. The treaty goes into force if “at least 55 nations with a total of more than 55 percent of global emissions” affirm the Paris agreement in their legislatures. Only 15 countries had carried out the ratification up to April 22, 2016. Among them were in particular island states such as the Marshall Islands, Granada, Nauru, Palau and Fiji as well as Palestine and Somalia. We cannot wait for this world climate agreement to go into effect in five years when the Kyoto Protocol has run out at the end of 2020. We cannot waste the time until then. After all, there is a major discrepancy between the goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 to 2 degrees and the actual climate protection policy of individual states, which is based on voluntary measures. There has to be an end to lip service and appeals to morality. To reach the goals, neither coal nor gas nor oil can be allowed to be burned from 2050 onward. Countries like Germany can demonstrate that the “Energiewende”* (energy turnaround) works, including storage technologies for mobile and stationary applications. Industrial nations must offer developing and transition countries alternative solutions to prevent them from repeating mistakes recognized in retrospect.

To the participants of the next summit meeting of the 20 most important industrial and transition countries on September 4 and 5, 2016 in China (G20: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Germany, France, Great Britain, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, the United States of America and the European Union as well as the permanent guests: International Monetary Fund (IMF), World Bank (WB), Financial Stability Board (FSB), Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), World Trade Organization (WTO), International Labour Organisation (ILO), the United Nations as well as Spain and the Chairmen of the African Union, NEPAD (New Partnership for Africa’s Development) and ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations)

You, too, bear a major responsibility for peace – in a free world without borders! Fulfillment of Messages 1, 5 and 6: Creation of a new world order under the auspices of the “United Peoples of the World.” Decarbonization of the world by 2050 at the latest! We urgently request that the Paris world climate agreement be ratified by the legislative bodies of the G20 states before the G20 summit in 2016 so that the global agreement can go into effect with productive and measurable national action.

To the UN General Assembly at its next meeting beginning September 20, 2016 in New York

Fulfillment of messages 2, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 10: The UNO – while maintaining its positive values – should be replaced by a more assertive, more resolute, and thus more effective government of the “United Peoples of the World”!

That would be a wonderful gift for Children’s Day on November 20, 2016.

The International Day of Peace will be celebrated on September 21, 2016!

To the participants of the next World Economic Forum January 17–20, 2017 in Davos

(more than 2500 top representatives of business and commerce, politics and society)