Post-Tsunami World - Solidarity Declaration

“LEARNING FROM THE CATASTROPHE”

THE CLUB OF BUDAPEST CALLS FOR WORLDWIDE DIALOGUE ON STEPS TO BUILD A SUSTAINABLE CIVILIZATION

THE POST-TSUNAMI WORLD-SOLIDARITY DECLARATION: “LEARNING FROM THE CATASTROPHE”

The tsunami catastrophe in Southern Asia touched the entire human community at a level and in a way never before experienced. The community’s first response was the provision of emergency relief that was likewise of historically unprecedented magnitude, promptness, and spread. This is a sign of great hope for our common future. In the long term, however, something more is required: a worldwide dialogue must begin on concrete steps that could lead beyond the present unsustainable condition of the world toward a more stable, peaceful, and sustainable civilization. The tsunami catastrophe, with its enormous human cost, must wake us up and impel us to learn. This opportunity is historic and not to be missed....

We need to launch a process of worldwide discussion and dialogue on practicable ways to pull ourselves up to the level to which our technologies of production and communication have already precipitated us: the level of the biosphere as a whole, where all people now live in interaction and interdependence and must learn to live with mutual respect and solidarity. We invite all thinking people and humanistically oriented organizations to join the call for a global dialogue on ways and means to create an inclusive and peaceful Sustainable Civilization...

The Club of Budapest pledges to provide a platform for a worldwide dialogue, receiving feasible and creative ideas and proposals and transmitting them to the pertinent groups and organizations.

I've never heard of "The Club of Budapest" but it sounds like they're on the right path.