Conclusion: Guidelines for Sustainable World Development

1. Developing nations must ally together so as to negotiate equally with the allied imperial centers.
2. There must be equal pay for equally-productive work to provide roughly equal buying power relative to the talents and energy expended to all who are employed.
3. Sharing those productive jobs would melt the invisible economic borders which currently guide the wealth into the hands of only the adequately paid. Each employable person now need work only two to three days per week.
4. Elimination of the subtle monopolizations of land, technology, finance capital, and information (Part IV), utilizing Henry George’s principles of conditional title to nature’s wealth, will restructure monopoly capitalism to democratic-cooperative-(superefficient)-capitalism and increase economic and social efficiency equal to the invention of money, the printing press, and electricity.
5. Addressing population issues and sustainable development will alert the citizenry that, through elimination of waste and then careful conservation, the earth has the capacity to provide resources for all and the environment to absorb wastes. With the most Catholic country in the world, Italy, having a birth rate per family of 1.29, Germany 1.51, and Japan 1.53—far below replacement levels leading the way—other regions adjusting population to the capacity of the earth’s resources and environment is an attainable goal.

There are 15 subsidiary guidelines to reach those goals:

1. The wealthy world must (as per Chapter 23) turn their war industries towards producing industrial technology for any nation or region of the world that agrees to eliminate terrorism, that agrees to reduce their military to a level that provides internal security but leaves no offensive capabilities, and that agrees to provide full political and economic rights to all its citizens—including women and minorities. These rights to include: a constitutional government, democratic elections, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and separation of religion and state. As this is exactly what most destabilized emerging nations were in the process of constructing, agreement on these conditions for developmental aid will be quickly accepted. Industries and access to markets would go only to those who agreed to these conditions. The dictatorships that the imperial-centers-of-capital have placed, and kept, in power throughout the world for two centuries will quickly melt away once that sincere offer is made.
2. All military weapons should be turned over to a fully federated earth and destroyed. Security worldwide and within nations should be provided by non-military civilian police. Initially, however, the powerful nations might assign their military forces to that democratized United Nations which would guarantee the borders of all nations. All weapons of mass destruction in all nations should be destroyed.
3. A fully federated earth should be chartered with the responsibility to oversee world peace and all nations should agree to place a worldwide embargo against any nation which attacks or subverts any other nation—or against any nation which attempts to retain or build its own military capacity to wage war.
4. Any honest accounting would show the wealthy world in enormous debt to the developing world through centuries of imperialism, slavery, and structural exploitation designed to create indebtedness through plunder-by-trade. Thus all Third World debts are unjust and should be cancelled.
5. Markets should be free between regions of equal development and equal pay. Trade between countries and regions unequally paid for equally-productive labor should be managed to prevent the continued plunder-by-trade as outlined in Chapters one and two.
6. To take control of their destiny, regions should establish their own central bank and trading currencies as per Chapter 26.
7. The level playing field so crucial to efficient economics should be leveled upwards. Through equalizing surcharges, minerals and other resources in the low-paid countries should be priced relative to mining or harvesting of those same resources or substitute commodities in the well-paid developed world. Labor values should be calculated and equalizing surcharges collected on exports of mined, harvested, and manufactured products as per Chapters 22 and 23.
8. Funds collected from these equalizing surcharges (tariffs) on international trade should go towards building industries and economic infrastructure in the lower-paid regions and for renewable energy capitalization, developing environmentally sound products, designing and implementing ecologically sustainable lifestyles, rebuilding soils, and cleaning up and revitalizing the ecosystems of both the developing and developed world. Protections should be lowered in step with the equalizing of industrial technology, capital accumulation, and labor skills.

   With the cost of minerals in the United States at 1.7% of GNP and the cost of fuel 2%, economies can handle those equalization surcharges.1 Through those same surcharges (or call then resource depletion taxes or Henry George’s “society collecting landrent”), the price of minerals and carbon fuels in the developing world should be increased to a level near that of the lower grade deposits in the developed world. The recycling of minerals would then be profitable and renewable energy would be competitive. The consumption of the world’s oil and coal will be slower, pollution pressures will be lower, and all countries will develop faster.

   Once equalizing surcharges are established, the entire world will be able to develop to a sustainable level and poverty will be largely eliminated. What appears more expensive to the few in the affluent developed world is really far cheaper to the billions in the entire world.

9. To prevent diversion of funds, money should not be distributed directly to developing nations or regions. Fulfillment of contract is the essence of a successful economy. Any industry or infrastructure built with developing world money or with equalizing surcharge funds should be built by contract (utilizing local labor) and the contractors paid from those funds. Since they now have the tools of production and access to technology, contactors and labor within those regions would be utilized.
10. Once nations or regions are roughly equal in technology and labor roughly equally paid, surcharges should be eliminated and fair and honest free trade will flow between nations and between regions. We will have turned “win-lose” and “lose-lose” trade wars into “win-win” equalizing managed fair trade and from there into honest and equal free trade.
11. There should be a balance between industry and resources. A nation or region short on resources should be allotted a higher level of industrialization. (Japan provides the ideal example.) Once all nations and regions are roughly equal in world trade, equalizing surcharges on resources should metamorphose into a resource depletion tax to fund rebuilding soils and revitalizing the world’s ecosystems.
12. As has already been successfully tested, one-year-old trees in biodegradable, aerodynamic, pointed cylinders can be planted at the rate of 800,000 trees a day per plane. Newly planted grass grows beautifully in North Africa when fenced off from goats. Technology has been developed to grow extensive ground cover in 1-to-3 years on steep, barren, infertile road cuts. The technology is here to reforest and regenerate the earth and a resource depletion tax is the proper source of funds.2
13. Patent laws should be restructured, as per Chapter 25, to pay inventors well yet technology is available for use by all. Destruction of industries and communities through industries moving offshore would cease—even as competition between and within regions increased. Monopoly pricing would collapse and living standards would rise rapidly.
14. To protect everyone’s rights and freedom, the world’s intelligence services should remain operative and alert. As opposed to being the planners of most of the world’s most violent acts of terrorism, these agencies should be mandated to cooperate in preventing terrorist attacks or wars anywhere in the world. As opposed to today’s demanding job of suppressing breaks for freedom, that mandated change alone will eliminate most terrorism and all wars.
15. The buying power for a healthy economy comes from adequate wages paid to productive labor multiplying throughout the economy. Those earnings are spent for family needs and that money is spent again and again as it is passed from hand to hand to purchase necessary food, fiber, shelter, and services. Thus care must be taken by both the developed and developing world for each region to produce most of their own food and consumer products and provide most of their own services.

Restructuring to true rights and freedom for all in the world as addressed in these rules for peaceful world development, and all people having some control of their own destiny, will eliminate most violence in this world.

With the wealthy developed world sincerely promoting equality in world trade through relinquishing their monopoly on resources, technology, and finance capital, and with that newly-produced wealth relatively equally shared in the developing regions through equality in wages and equal access to jobs, poverty will quickly be alleviated and violence will subside.

Our Cures for the World’s Problems Follow Henry George’s Principles of Conditional Titles to Nature’s Resources

Before they go on to their final reward, almost all economists of respectable standing say the philosopher Henry George had it right; no one produced land, natural resources are a heritage for all, and society should collect the landrent.

Once we realize that monopolies are structured in law through exclusive title to nature’s wealth, that this legal structure is a residue of aristocratic monopolies, and that utilization of Henry George’s concept of society collecting the landrent instantly restores the common right of all to their share of nature’s wealth, we will realize that the other primary monopolies (technology, money, and communications), as well as the subsidiary monopolies (insurance, taxi medallions, et al) would disappear by their exclusive title rights being also restructured to conditional rights.

We have adequately demonstrated that, just as the Physiocrats and Henry George predicted, restructuring those residual-feudal exclusive titles to nature’s wealth to conditional titles will eliminate monopolies wherever they are applied; economic efficiency increases equal to the invention of money, the printing press, and electricity; and, assuming those productive jobs are shared, poverty quickly disappears.

There are other philosophies out there that also are far more efficient and just than monopoly capitalism. It is not essential that all follow our philosophy. What is essential is that all are permitted to establish their societies as they see fit; only they can decide what is best for their culture. People everywhere are intelligent. If they see another society living better because their economic and legal structure is more efficient they will change.

We have adequately demonstrated that Western societies have covertly, and at times overtly, destabilized any society that establishes their society outside its monopoly legal structure. Universally, when each of those societies first broke free their living standards rapidly rose as they turned their resources to the well being of their own citizens.

The problem was not that they were dictators running inefficient economies. The problem was they had broken free, their living standards were rising rapidly, the whole world would see it if they succeeded, all the suppressed world would immediately demand their freedom, the monopoly system hiding under the rhetoric of Adam Smith free trade, peace, freedom, justice, rights, and majority rule would stand exposed, and monopoly capitalism would collapse. .

Western societies answer was to propagandize those newly-free nations as dictators, killers, and incompetents. Covertly financing and coaching internal groups to overthrow these fledgling governments created the chaos and deaths that the propaganda further laid out as proving the original descriptions as dictators and killers were right. The West’s puppets, true killers and dictators, were put in place and labeled democracies. All that was mixed together and those original leaders trying mightily to gain freedom for their people go down in history as villains.

If this world is ever to have peace, freedom, and a quality life for all, one must understand how the masses are controlled through propaganda creating enemies.

These are Historic Moments

At this time the imperial centers are holding, and though this reality is not acknowledged, the periphery has collapsed to the extent that the average standard of living worldwide can only have dropped substantially. With the exception of East Germany, the standard of living in virtually every East European country is lower than in 1985 to 1999, most far lower. Russia and the former provinces of the Soviet Union have seen their standard of living drop in the range of 50% before stabilizing due to high oil prices. Argentina’s per-capita annual income dropped 60% and then started to recover. The economies of Brazil and Uruguay threatened to mimic Argentina and may now go either way. Other Latin American economies have seen their average living standards drop, then recover somewhat, and they too may go either way. Most of Africa has seen their living standards erode for decades and there is, at this time, no sign of a turnaround. Japan’s economy shrank for 10 years (their wealth was down $18-trillion), has now stabilized, and rebuilt some of that wealth. Although their balance of payments and reserves have rebuilt, the former Asian Tigers have not regained their pre-1997 per-capita living standard.

Such economic crisis in previous history has created wars. (The many destabilizations we address affirms that history) It will take an enormous military to maintain such an immense rate of transfer of wealth from the periphery to the imperial centers.a The current power-structure understands this well. America’s roughly $280-billion military budget climbed to $400-billion and appears headed to $480-billion by 2006. That is more money spent on the military than the next 15 richest nations and most of those are allied with, or at least friends of, America.3

From their viewpoint, Western imperialists may need that firepower. Much of Southeast Asia is highly industrialized and, in 2002, China alone graduated over 400,000 PhDs in the hard sciences. We must remember that Germany graduating 8-to-10-times more engineers (3,000 against England’s 350) made the German economy much more efficient than the British economy and it was Germany’s efficient economy taking over British markets that led to World Wars I and II. Only a philosophy of sharing resources, sharing productive capacity, and sharing in the wealth produced can avoid fascist military control of world resources which could easily turn into World War III.

America’s and NATO’s rapid reaction forces snuffing out resistance all over the world is only control of resources and control of the wealth-producing-process hiding under other excuses. If those economies on the periphery continue collapsing or fail to advance economically, and especially if the imperial centers implode, the world will soon figure that out.

That collapse of the periphery does not need to continue. An implosion of the imperial centers while the periphery holds is getting more and more plausible. Japan can just as logically ally with other Asian industrial economies as they can with America. Actually, with her enormous dollar reserves, that of other Asian nations (together, well over $1-trillion), and their collective productive capacity, even more logically: This may happen. Where America is locked into its monopolized economic system, Japan and developing nations are not.

Japan has demonstrated how to ignore monopoly capital’s rules and keep an economy going even as property values collapse. All nations have taken notice and Japan, China, India, and Southeast Asia have the industrial power, the dollar reserves, the cohesiveness, and the philosophical agility to protect themselves and each other. Russia is also similarly situated. Thus the next worldwide economic collapse is likely to be very different from those of past history.

China, India and Japan—the major Asian economic players—are at this time (2005) signing trade contracts with Latin American and African nations. Virtually every commodity or consumer product used in world commerce can be processed or produced in either Japan or China and India and Russia are also major players. Whether the world economy collapses or whether it stabilizes under the hand of America’s military might, those countries have the power to protect themselves and will do so either individually or collectively.

If the world economy collapses (the 1st possibility) those nations will ignore the rules of monopoly capitalism, they will restructure their internal debts under their own currencies, they will—through this new trading currency or an allied currency (early movements towards federation)—maintain those trade relations with Africa and Latin America, and keep their economies going.

If America’s military power is able to stave off that collapse (the 2nd possibility), those four nations will slowly get out of the dollar, slowly move to an alternative trading currency (either their own or an allied currency similar to the Euro), expand those trade agreements with Latin America and Africa and maintain or, as we show is possible under democratic-cooperative-superefficient-capitalism, increase their economic momentum.

Those four emerging nations and a few smaller ones are, very responsibly, slowly moving out of the dollar at this time. We say very responsibly because they are trying to protect America from the insanity of its own economic and military policies and at the same time protect themselves.

There is always the 3rd and 4th possibilities, fascist control of the world (the current operational plan) and World War III. The 3rd possibility is only a prelude to the 4th. Even though history tells us that worldwide war is the most likely of the four possibilities, we are optimists and will not go down that road. The long and short of it is that, even though it is struggling to survive, monopoly capitalism is reaching the end of its natural life.

As we have thoroughly documented, no country ever developed under monopoly capitalism’s Adam Smith free trade philosophy, not even those imperial centers who have preached that imperialistic cover story so long they believe it. But those emerging nations never did believe it, nor do the alert within them believe it now. Even as they mouthed monopoly capitalism’s philosophy, the alert knew they were practicing Friedrich List protection of tender industries and markets.

Those alert know that isolated production units (countries or alliances) must compete for resources and markets and it is that struggle which leads to wars. Those struggles are eliminated through alliances (better yet full federations) for sharing world resources and markets.

With Latin America, Africa, and the former Soviet Far East being the last remaining unindustrialized regions providing resources to the industrialized and rapidly industrializing world, with several countries within that periphery signing trade alliances (budding federations) and starting to industrialize, and with a few having enough oil income to do so successfully, the world is at a critical juncture.

Both outright colonialism and colonialism hiding under the cover of Adam Smith free trade is coming to an end. Once those resource-wealthy impoverished nations ally together (or fully federate) for their own development there will be no more periphery which means, except through conquest of those newly emerging trade alliances, there can be no empires.

America and their allied imperial-centers-of-capital know all this which is why, with over 70% of the weapons on earth already, they are desperately building more sophisticated weaponry and planning on militarily controlling space. In this struggle for control of resources and control of the wealth-producing-process, the world is poised for a third world war. But, as addressed above, the massive dollar savings and the even more massive productive capacity within competing alliances (early stage of federations) will, in the long run, trump that massive military power.

An alliance is an agreed set of rules that different cultures will live by. A mature alliance, such as the European Union is a federation of nations. Thus the world’s trading alliances are early beginnings of a federated earth. Only by full federation of all nations can the world proscribe the selfishness of the powerful and abandon war. There is no middle ground. To not federate is to be either one of the oppressor nations or one of the oppressed.

Every sober citizen wants an end to wars. Only when faced with power have imperial nations ever abandoned their claims upon the wealth of the periphery. Those imperial centers cannot control billions of people if they band together. The periphery must ally together to peacefully reclaim their share of the world’s wealth produced by the world’s resources and the wealth-producing-process. After all, most those natural resources are within their borders.

The enormous wealth flowing into the imperial centers from the periphery is consumed in part by the huge expenditure on arms necessary to control the resources on the periphery and thus control the wealth-producing-process. The economic multiplier from these wasteful expenditures creates the good life for citizens in those imperial centers. That system of theft is then hidden from the social mind by massive propaganda portraying the suppressed as dangerous enemies and the suppressors as a benevolent people attempting to bring peace, freedom, justice, rights, and majority rule to the world.

The managers-of-state of the rapidly developing world are highly intelligent and obviously understand they are practicing Friedrich List protection of tender industries and markets even as they mouth Adam Smith free trade. Living in reality permits them the philosophical agility to change banking and property rights structures and keep their economies going should the world economy collapse.

But the imperial centers are so imprinted with Adam Smith philosophy and so dependent upon the theft of the wealth of weak nations that, even though the powerbrokers understand the fraud quite well (after all they created it), the system (politicians, professors, intellectuals, corporate leaders, think tanks, and the citizenry) will be unable to quickly make the necessary financial and property rights adjustments.

Professors and the true intellectuals should be able to quickly adjust but it will take years for what they say to seep into a nation’s minds.

Politicians will not change because, after pushing Adam Smith for so long and with their constituents still locked into the old beliefs, they will look foolish.

Corporate leaders and those hard right think tanks which created neo-liberal economics are the biggest problem. Those false philosophies were created specifically to protect wealth and power and, under the necessary restructuring of those immense blocks of unearned wealth, the current powerful and those think tanks, through which the mind of nations were controlled, disappears.

Thus, which ever of the above listed possibilities occur, the world cannot federalize, become peaceful, and produce a quality life for all until the entrenched-wealth economies crash. That crash will destroy that wealth, totally discredit the belief system so carefully imposed upon its citizenry, discredit the current powerful and their think tanks, and open the minds of all to the necessity of federating all nations under democratic-cooperative-superefficient capitalism.

There are many good qualities to capitalism, crucial to an efficient economy but no country in the world has ever had honest capitalism. What we have had has always been monopoly capitalism. Once this is understood, those locked into the beliefs of capitalism can quickly build upon efficient capitalisms’ new philosophical base.

Likewise, no country has ever practiced fully-thought-out, truly-efficient, socialism. True believers will recognize that this new philosophy can just as easily be called democratic-superefficient-socialism so they too can move under, and expand upon, these sound concepts providing a quality life for all.

Where a power structure is locked in and cannot change, once an extreme crisis is upon them and their children hungry, the citizenry of the imperial centers will be looking for answers. Viable solutions, currently relegated to alternative news and the Internet, will spread rapidly once the world is Wi-Fi wired, peaceful revolutionaries will quickly make those necessary philosophical adjustments, new leaders will be elected, and the former aggressor nations will join the federated world of peaceful nations.

We all know the fable of the king whose tailor promised him clothes made of gold, could not create the gold thread, dressed the king in invisible gold, the whole kingdom marveled at his beautiful gold clothes, and it took a child to see the truth and say, “The king has no clothes.”

For 50 years these imperial-centers-of-capital have dressed themselves in the fine clothes of peace, freedom, justice, rights, and majority rule. Throughout those same 50 years policies-of-state of that empire has been anything but peace, freedom, justice, rights, and majority rule.

These are historic moments. If a further world economic collapse cannot be stopped and the empire’s armies are busy hopping all over the globe keeping all countries in line, the empire will stand exposed. America’s decapitation of the leadership of Iraq to gain control of world oil prices, while 65% to 85% of the citizens of virtually every country in the world except America and Israel said no, means that many leaders, new and old, will be standing up. Many will see their freedom is also at risk and say the obvious, “This empire is not for peace, freedom, justice, rights, or majority rule. This empire is for maintaining control of world resources and the wealth-producing-process.”

When that can be said on the evening news of a now Wi-Fi wired nation—as news anchor Walter Cronkite shaking his head essentially said about the Vietnam War forcing the powerbrokers to make peace—people will in unison see that this empire has no clothes.

If we do not stand up and speak openly about the obvious, the world may not break free. This narrows the options to two: freedom for all or the mighty military of the imperial centers controlling the world’s resources, controlling the wealth-producing-process, and imposing poverty on weak nations. That is not necessary, eliminate the waste of that control process (in both internal economies and in world trade) through applying Henry George’s principles of restructuring exclusive title to nature’s wealth to conditional title (restoring the historic commons in modern form) and there is enough on this earth for everybody.

John Perkins’ Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (2004) is a must read. Finally one of the managers of state within the heart of the system, a key planner of financial and economic warfare maintaining the dependency of the impoverished world, steps out, confesses, and validates all our analysis that our misnamed free trade is simply a system of plunder of weak nation’s wealth.

Perkins even identifies the bureaucracy secretly overseeing this system of plunder of weak nation’s wealth; the National Security Administration. With that exposure of the NSA as the head of the snake, good researchers will zero in and take that apart. Even more important, many within the system faithfully following the neo-liberal philosophy they were taught, and totally unaware they were only a cog in an elaborate system to lay claim to others’ wealth, will become aware and—as they too are good people who will not accept an identity as purveyors of mass poverty, violence, and death—many more will defect. This should alert the developing world to repudiate those unjust debts and an international court would likely rule in their favor.

Prout (Progressive Utilization Theory, http://www.prout.org/), the intellectual work of Prablhar Ranjan Sarkar, first published in 1959, now known and respected around the world, coming later to our attention, is brilliant.

In After Capitalism: Prout’s Vision for a New World, Dada Maheshva-rananda’s summarized P.R. Sarkar’s work at a language level we can all understand.4

Prout’s concept of taxing the source of production is greatly superior to today’s labor and consumer taxation. But Henry George’s collection of all rent value on nature’s wealth (which they address lightly) is far more efficient and some Proutists are studying that now.

Their requirement that the money of their cooperative society be backed by gold is in direct conflict with full and equal rights for all and thus needs further thought. With their dedication to bottom-line truths, a serious look will lead to adjustments there.

Prout lays out a cooperative society with distinct limitations on private enterprise and wealth accumulation. We have laid out a cooperative society in which the full and equal rights of all people maximizes private enterprise while fierce competition, engendered by those same full and equal rights, simultaneously limits income and wealth accumulated to that produced by each be they worker, manager, or owner.

Applying Henry George’s concept of conditional title to nature’s wealth across the entire economic spectrum along with eliminating social-structure-monopolies established in law (insurance, privatized health care, the legal industry, et. al.) and constitutionally guaranteeing each a productive job, instantly eliminates all monopolies and replaces them with full and equal rights for all. (In The World’s Wasted Wealth by this author or at http://www.ied.info/books/worlds-wasted-wealth you can read about those social-structure-monopolies structured in law.)

Once those monopolies are restructured to full and equal rights for all through applying Henry George principles it only requires applying the principle of each person having rights to a productive job (which is also a key tenet of Prout philosophy), we feel that many of the institutions and all the goals of Prout will automatically come together.

The reason is that, under a fully-applied HG philosophy, virtually none of those monopolies can reform; the excess rights of monopolists has been replaced by full and equal rights for all. Prout pointing out the great gains in living standards under their cooperative philosophy is paralleled by our pointing out that under cooperative capitalism (though he does not use those terms, primarily a Henry George concept) economic efficiency would increase equal to the invention of money, the printing press, and electricity; poverty would disappear in 10 years; and a sustainable quality life for all can be attained in 50 years.

We specifically point out, several times, that this system of full and equal rights would be so efficient that it would strip the earth’s resources and social planning would have to be imposed to protect the resources and the environment.

But the many aspects of exactly how society would structure itself to do that we left up to the now-free people to decide. Prout did a good job laying out potential social structures under which those decisions would be made. The application of their concept of a fourth branch of government to audit the accounts of the other three branches would go a long way towards imposing honesty upon what is now horribly corrupt.5

We feel the elimination of those monopolies along with a constitutional right to a productive job with equal pay for equal work gives full and equal rights to all and attains all the goals of Prout’s cooperatives. Under conditional titles to nature’s wealth, as per Henry George philosophy, those monopolies cannot reform, there will be no excess (monopoly) profits, and competition will be so fierce that management can claim no more than a just wage. Prices charged equals wages paid so there is no surplus to allot to, or be monopolized by, anyone. With every job efficient each person on earth can have a quality life while working only two to three days per week, consumer prices would fall to reflect the waste eliminated, and the economy would be so efficient that social control to protect resources and the ecosystem would automatically form.

Full and equal rights will be the enormously powerful engine that would run that economy and social oversight will be the leavening that will guide it to sustainability and protection of resources and the ecosystem. We give a few broad guidelines (resource depletion taxes, creating regional trading currencies, rights to finance capital, et. al.) and left it to the now fully-free people to define the exact social structures. After all, that is what freedom is all about

The variables were just too great for us to come any closer to laying out a social structure. We like what Prout laid out but the human propensity for guiding a little more (or a lot) to themselves and/or maintaining a status quo is formidable and, under their guidelines, the potential for a command society may be a problem. A combination of competition, rights, and social oversight was our vision of society maximizing efficiency.

The methods of groups figuring out how to hang onto just a little more than their fair share would be endless. As we feel humans are far more generous and giving than they are greedy, there is the possibility that Prout’s emphasis on ethics and morality covers that. But we must also remember that, historically, a lot of oppression has taken place under the cover of ethics and morality.

Solidarity Economics has been around for a long time and it matches well with both Prout’s theories and ours. An Internet search will find tons of reading.

Of the many messages in this book, the most important to remember is that the wealthy world has allied together to retain control of the world’s resources and the wealth-producing-process and the resulting inequalities in trade has maintained the impoverishment of small, weak, nations. If those weak nations are to provide a quality life for their people, they must ally together, take control of their resources, and negotiate full and equal trading rights.

The final step for a prosperous world fully at peace is a federation of all nations with the legal structure and mandate to guarantee full and equal rights for all and that is what we, hopefully, have put together.

A Wi-Fi wired world has the potential of breaking past the propaganda process and leading the world to peace, freedom, elimination of poverty, with a quality life for all.

Footnotes

1. The same transfer of wealth from the weak to the powerful is on-going within the American economy. If the share of the nation’s wealth between the wealthy and the poor had remained stable the past 30 years, the annual income of the lowest 10% would be double what it is today. Back to text

Endnotes

1. Herman E. Daly, Steady-State Economics (San Francisco: W.H. Freeman, 1977), p. 109. See also Brian Milani, Designing the Green Economy: The Postindustrial Alternative to Corporate Globalization (New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000). Back to text
2. Alan Weisman, “Nothing Wasted, Everything Gained,” Mother Jones (March/April, 1998), pp. 56-59; William Kötke, The Final Empire (Portland, OR: Arrow Point Press, 1993), p. 36; Stephanie Mills, In Service of the Wild: Restoring and Reinhabiting Damaged Land (Boston: Beacon Press, 1995); John J. Berger, Ed., Environmental Restoration: Science and Strategies for Restoring the Earth (Washington, DC: Island Press, 1990); William E. McClain, Illinois Prairie: Past and Future: A Restoration Guide (Springfield, IL: Illinois Department of Conservation, 1986); Jonathan Turk et. al., Ecosystems, Energy, Population (Toronto: W.B. Saunders Co., 1975); Alan Dregson, Duncan Taylor, editors, Ecoforestry: The Art and Science of Sustainable Forest Use (Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers, 1997); Michael Pilarski, Restoration Forestry: An International Guide to Sustainable Forestry Practices (Durango, CO: Kivaki Press, 1994); A Report by The International Institute for Environment and Development and The World Resources Institute, World Resources 1987: An Assessment of the Resource Base That Supports the Global Economy (New York: Basic Books, 1987), p. 289; Alan Weisman, “Columbia’s Modern City,” In Context (No 42, 1995), pp. 6-8; Lester Thurow, Head to Head: The Coming Economic Battle Among Japan, Europe, and America (New York: William Morrow, 1992), p. 223; Jeremy Rifkin, Entropy: Into the Greenhouse World (New York: Bantam Books, 1989), p. 220. Back to text
3. James Petras, “Argentina: Between Disintegration & Revolution,” CovertAction Quarterly (Fall 2002.), pp. 27-33; Michel Chossudovsky, “United States War Machine: Revving the Engines of World War III, CovertAction Quarterly (Fall 2002), pp. 41-46. Back to text
4. Dada Maheshvarananda, After Capitalism: Prout’s Vision for a New World (Washington DC: Proutist Universal Publications, 2003). Back to text
5. Ibid, p. 193. Back to text

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