From kte at psl.org.pl Thu Jan 29 23:24:51 2009 From: kte at psl.org.pl (Leslaw Michnowski) Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:24:51 +0100 Subject: [WSIS-EUC] Global crisis References: Message-ID: <005e01c98260$67c5b010$0a01a8c0@Izbica69> Dear European Friends, The world is in the open phase of global crisis. We are standing in front of : (A) the new world war, (B) the "soft" continuation of social-Darwinistic social relations - in the quite new (high science and technology supported, most probably global Orwellian totalitarian) its pathological form; (C) the sustainable development of the world society, conditioned upon ecohumanistic transformation (including creation of the new economy with possibility to account complex costs and effects and stimulate creative - cognitive and innovative - activity directed on common good). Ecohumanism is a partnership-based co-operation for the common good of all people (rich and poor, from countries highly developed and behind in development), their descendants, and natural environment - commonly supported by science and high technology (including information culture). It is impossible to durable overcome global crisis by the (A) or (B) ways. We have to overthrow "zero growth"[1] defense strategy (A. Merkel, WEF, Davos 2007). We have to substitute entrepreneurial capitalism for speculative capitalism (N, Sarcozy, EU Summit, 10.2008, B. Gates, WEF Davos 2008). We need creative, ecosocial useful capitalism - i.e. ecosocial free market economy (GMPI). These proposals are coherent generally with Bsrack Obama's, contained in his inaugural speech. To achieve above we ought to support G. Brown's and Wen Jiabao's (WEF Davos 2009) proposal: to create GLOBAL EARLY WARNING SYSTEM. But this information system building should be only the first step in the creation of world information system for sustainable development policy and economy. To avoid global catastrophe we need especially - as soon as possible - to elaborate, adopt and enforce UN program of sustainable development information bases creation. The two important world anticrisis events will be hold in the 2009 year: I - G20 (London, April 2nd); II - UN General Assembly. Therefore I propose to try to include into programs of both above events our strategic proposal: TO START TO CREATE - with help of UN - THE WORLD INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT POLICY AND ECONOMY. Without that information system realization of above strategic proposals as well as all of the main UN tasks: - Millennium Development Goals, - ("three pillars") sustainable development of the world society, - changing properly patterns of production and consumption; - fair globalization, - sustained economic growth, - decoupling economy growth and resources depletion, - will not be possible to achieve. To overcome global crisis we need to start as soon as possible building of above mentioned information bases of sustainable development of the world society. With the best regards - Leslaw. www.psl.org.pl/kte/artlm.htm -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [1] Some "zero growth" policy realization form see fig. 8 in: Forrester Jay W., Counterintuitive behavior of social systems, - http://sysdyn.clexchange.org/sdep/Roadmaps/RM1/D-4468-2.pdf .