{"id":127836,"date":"2019-02-11T12:00:19","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T12:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=127836"},"modified":"2019-02-10T13:29:47","modified_gmt":"2019-02-10T13:29:47","slug":"when-the-vessel-is-sinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2019\/02\/when-the-vessel-is-sinking\/","title":{"rendered":"When the Vessel Is Sinking"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018Suddenly -said Leonardo Da Vinci- there are no poor and rich, no young and old, no white and black on board\u2026 only a bunch of passengers toiling, working together to survive, to avoid a shipwreck.\u2019<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

7 Feb 2019 <\/em>\u2014 <\/em>This is the advice we should convey today through all media so that the \u201cpeoples\u201d become aware of the situation humanity is facing for the first time in history.<\/p>\n

In recent years a series of global threats have been recognized as potentially irreversible processes that need to be confronted and dealt with on time before it is too late.<\/p>\n

The climate change has become an undeniable truth. The Arctic Ocean has nearly disappeared and the Antarctic is starting to crack.<\/p>\n

We have not succeeded in our effort to reduce the emissions of \u201cgreenhouse\u201d gases\u2026 and the habitability of Earth is experiencing a consistent deterioration.<\/p>\n

The implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) -wisely established by the United Nations Assembly in October 2015 \u201cto transform our world\u201d- has not been carried out because it is not efficiently supported by big countries\u2026 and citizens are under the pressure of the gigantic media power that makes them confused and turns them into impassive spectators instead of responsible actors.<\/p>\n

Neoliberalism -stubbornly lead by the United States Republican Party- has weakened the nation-State and has replaced the democratic multilateralism of United Nations by the governance of a few plutocratic oligarchic groups (G6, G7, G8, G20) responsible for the current drift that has placed GDP and international trade in the forefront\u2026 together with President Trump\u2019s discretionary power which no one dares to confront.<\/p>\n

The most disturbing consequence is the way supremacism, racism, fanaticism, dogmatism are sprouting everywhere\u2026 without anyone seeming to recall what happened in 1933 and 1939\u2026<\/p>\n

The vast majority of citizens are stunned and obsessed supporters of football teams, and are only worried with their immediate past and their present life; their demands -which are mainly based on the mistakes made by those who have ruled on one side and another- would be reasonable in less pressing situations, but they do not realize that today young and future generations are the only ones who deserve our attention if we want to keep the world afloat and bequeath these generations a dignified life.<\/p>\n

Despite the fact that there is reason to dream with and fight for new ways of governance, that we are about to conquer at last what always seemed an impossible quest, the only true thing is that the time has come to join our hands and voices, instead of breaking up; the time has come for an efficient multilateralism with a planetary scale authority; the time for genuine democracy\u2026 Because otherwise devastation will be the irremediable consequence.<\/p>\n

The time has come for mass media to convey accurate information about the Earth\u2019s sustainability and to alert the world, and to keep away from ill-meaning commercial and political news that urge them to do the opposite.<\/p>\n

The time has come for major financial corporations to become aware that it is their historical responsibility, in no-return situations, to promote and encourage awareness instead of favouring confusion and overacting.<\/p>\n

For peoples -\u201dWe, the peoples\u201d, as we were so wisely referred to at the beginning of the Charter of the United Nations- to take control, now that we are aware of what is going on and we can freely express ourselves, now that we have become men and women, of our common destiny.<\/p>\n

The vessel is sinking because we have not paid attention to any of the recommendations made during the last decades. As in Leonardo\u2019s tale, it is now essential and urgent for all of us to react, because we are all concerned, and otherwise we will not succeed in our intent of keeping safe in all its fullness the mystery of human existence. \u201cEverything is still possible\u2026 but who will do it if not all of us?\u201d said Miquel Mart\u00ed i Pol.<\/p>\n

I am quoting once again, because reading them was a crucial experience for me, the lines of Jos\u00e9 \u00c1ngel Valente\u2019s poem \u201cOn the present time\u201d:<\/p>\n

\u201cI am writing from a wrecked vessel,<\/em>
\nI am writing about the latitude of pain,<\/em>
\nabout everything we have destroyed<\/em>
\nabove all within ourselves\u2026<\/em>
\nI am writing in the midst of the night,<\/em>
\nin the midst of the roar of the hungry and the dead.<\/em>
\nwith the perspective of a hand that becomes a gloomy fist<\/em>
\n\u2026with the eyes of infinitely dead children,<\/em>
\n\u2026with the pain of a tree with wounded roots\u2026<\/em>
\nBut I also write in the midst of life,<\/em>
\nwith its powerful cry<\/em>
\n\u2026with the voice of the suffering crowd\u2026<\/em>
\nI am writing, my brother, about a time to come\u201d.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u00a0<\/em>Let\u2019s find inspiration in Leonardo Da Vinci, Miquel Mart\u00ed i Pol and Jos\u00e9 \u00c1ngel Valente, and let\u2019s abandon all hostile attitudes against an adequate and peaceful navigation.<\/p>\n

In the new age what will prevail will not be the power of force but rather the power of reason, not weapons but words, not herd instinct but the capacity of each human being to create, to think and to take his own decisions.<\/p>\n

If we manage to keep the ship afloat, with all passengers, humanity will have the opportunity to usher in a new era.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Federico Mayor Zaragoza<\/em> – Spanish scientist, scholar, politician, diplomat and poet. President of the International Commission against the Death Penalty. Chairman of the Foundation for a Culture of Peace. He served as Director-General of UNESCO from 1987 to 1999.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

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Source: <\/em>Other News<\/a><\/p>\n

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