How to treat our planet? Lessons for future politicians
- Steef Huibregtse
- Jul 8, 2019
- 2 min read
By: Steef Huibregtse, Rico Huijskens, Daniel van der Linden.
Contributor: Ron Keller
Existing political infrastructure has not been sufficiently aligned to the dynamics of a global
economy. Therefore, leaders of states and politicians do not always represent the interests of
local communities. Currently, mismatches exist between decision-making levels and problem levels, resulting in an ineffective approach towards global issues. If we do not deal with the issues exposed in this whitepaper, there is a significant probability of the world going into a 2nd edition of the Dark Ages. This is a global state in which only a select few hold all the money and power, while the rest of our population is being marginalised.
To fight challenges like digitalization, global mobility, depletion of natural resources etc.,
nation-states have relied on scaled-up versions of decision-making by regional and global
institutions, such as the UN, World Bank, and OECD. However, less and less support is given
by nation-states to these institutions, e.g. see how the US has been blocking the role of the
WTO. That means in today's world that some of the intergovernmental organizations exist as mere discussion clubs rather than decision-making and problem-solving bodies. In addition, each of these institutions is only addressing one fragment of the global challenges, e.g. environmental and immigration topics are not being addressed in a holistic matter.
A One-globe actors’ platform can set the minimum standards of living for 1 citizen. By
tracking how nation-states are performing on these standards local communities can better
assess the performance of their leaders of state and politicians. Although the 1-globe actors’
will not have any other authorities than asking the nation-states for this information, which the 1-globe actors’ platform will subsequently make available to all citizens on this planet in a transparent manner, their role in informing local communities on the performance of their leaders and politicians will be quite important.
Our expectation will be that the response by boards of smart cities and local communities -both individuals as well as corporate citizens - will be essential to execute to be able to on the minimum standards of living published by the 1-globe actors’ platform.
Therefore, in the future, local communities might rely less on nation-states and their leaders to protect the local communities’ interest. Both global and regional institutions will only survive if and insofar these can contribute in a constructive and orchestrated manner to the minimum standards of living of local communities.
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