Arcos Cielos Research Center

“In 50 years of world service with the United Nations, I have come to consider the birth of Planetary Consciousness, together with the creation of global institutions and the convening of world conferences, the major hopes for enabling humanity to cope with the acute problems facing us. In view of the current resistance, slowness, if not opposition of many governments to act on the various intergovernmental agreements on the environment, and being a member of the Club of Budapest, I consider it my duty to make the following recommendations:

1. To declare a State of Emergency of the Earth.

2. To consider the present situation as an outright war: a World War III against Nature and its elements, a war that must now end.

3. To request a Second World Conference on the Biosphere, 30 years after the first one in 1978, to ascertain the state of the Biosphere today.

4. To support the extension to other countries of the World Party of Natural Law already existing in 85 countries at the initiative of British scientists.

5. To place our weight behind a radical change in the political system of our Planet, a system that currently provides services and financial resources to heal communities, cities, provinces and nations, but leaves the Earth and the Human family almost entirely without adequate services and financial resources at a time when these are most urgently needed.

6. In view of the chaos of the nation-state system and its colossal duplication of services and their financial costs (e.g., the national military establishments), to urgently agree on the absolute and imperative necessity to create, whether sooner or later but unavoidably, a Proper Earth Government in the form of a Federal Government, or a United States of the World, or of a Union based on the model of the European Union of five continental Unions with a global superstructure, or of a government patterned on bioregional or bio-organizational models suggested by Nature herself.
In the absence of such initiatives, we are likely to see the disappearance of most life forms, including human life, from this planet in the course of the twenty-first century.”

…From Comments by Members and Partners of the Club of Budapest. In Ervin Laszlo, 2006 - The Chaos Point: The World at the Crossroads: Seven Years to Avoid a Global Collapse and Promote Worldwide Renewal.

“In ages past the connectedness and wholeness of the world was know to medicine men, priests, and shamans, to seers and sages, and to all people who had the courage to look beyond their nose and stay open to what they saw. This, however, was the kind of insight that comes from the kind of mystical, religious, and aesthetic experience and was private or unverifible - even if it appeared certain beyond doubt. Now, in the first decade of the twenty-first century, innovative scientists at the frontiers of science are rediscovering the integral nature of reality. They lift the private experiences that speak to it from the domain of unverifiable intuition into the realm of interpersonally verifiable public knowledge.”

“We can live up to our potentials as counscious beings: we can come to know the reenchanted cosmos. Not only is this impossible, it is not even particularly difficult. Beyond the complex deductions and abstruse mathematics of the new sciences, the new concept of a coherent, connected, and integral universe is simple and meaningful; indeed, it is beautiful. When we make it our own, we come back to where our fathers and forefathers have been before us. But we come back with more assurance than they have had. Cutting-edge science tells us that we do not delude ourselves: we inhabit an integral, whole universe, and we are part of it. We are at home in the cosmos.”

…Ervin Laszlo, 2006 -Science and the Reenchantment of the Cosmos:The Rise of the Integral Vision of Reality.