Global Constructs

Apr 17, 2004 - © Donna L. Quesinberry



Life has become larger than our own backyards. We are beginning to sense that we indeed have a role in the "global community." Community participation now carries us across the threshold of localization to the realm of internationalization. We reach out and touch other human beings living in night's fall as we enter the dawn of a new day, or vice-versa. As a global society we speak out in concern of our neighbors and demonstrate global humanitarianism(s). We care for our friends and neighbors, whether within the distance of a short walk, or the distance of a long flight. We sense impending shortage(s), of one product or another, when natural disasters occur in any given part of the world. We feel the grief with real pain and anguish for neighbors who experience traumas occurring across lands or seas and we rejoice in triumphs shared from distant shores.

There are, in answer to this awakening of a new global spirit, constructs for social, economic, governmental, health, and safety. These global constructs are similar of nature in that they propose to assist individuals at all levels of their livelihood(s) (i.e.: for the most part) and they strive to assist humanity along with the resident geosphere simultaneously. This article is the introduction to a series about innovative global constructs. One article is dedicated to each globalization effort listed below that encompass new organizational efforts in globalization of the world community.

It is my hope discussion regarding these concepts of the world community will ensue. That we will share our thoughts and opinions. That we will learn from one another as we review these articles in this series. Additionally, if there are global constructs (i.e.: not touched upon) and you would like to share them, please feel free to contact me at D. Quesinberry at DonnaInk.com. I will happily research and add additional global constructs to this article series.

Presently, the series will represent the constructs in the numerical order that follows:

  1. Simultaneous Policy (SP)-The International Simultaneous Policy Organisation (ISPO) is a growing association of citizens worldwide who use their votes in a coordinated, effective way to drive all nations to co-operate in solving our planetary crisis. ISPO goes beyond merely demanding greater political accountability by offering citizens a new way of restoring genuine democracy lawfully and peacefully, one vote at a time.

  2. Earth Charter-An acute State of Emergency exists on Earth, imperiling its climate, its life support systems, and the lives of billions of people. The related crises of environmental degradation and the destitution of a third of humanity are linked to the ever-greater concentration of economic power and worsened by a profound failure of world governance. The world community, is called to act, agreeing a planetary ethic - of respect for life and human dignity - as expressed in the Earth Charter.
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