~ Idea 2001 ~
In the Introduction to ideas 1901 to 2000 of Volume IV, which reproduces my statement to the Cagliari Conference in May 1998 on Globalization and the Future of the Nation-state, I underlined three major periods of planetary human concerns since the end of World War II:

 I. from 1945 to 1970's, a period of unprecedented, all-encompassing Humanism;

II. from 1970 to 1980, humanity and the Environment;

III. from 1980 on, the Earth became priority number one.

Since things go so fast, less than one year later in March 1999 I had to add a fourth, new, unprecedented period in all human history:

IV. from 2000 on, our foremost concern will be the future Evolution of planet Earth and of humanity on it.

~ Idea 2002 ~
In the same Introduction I had this statement by the Earth:

"I have another major complaint, namely while there is a population explosion in the poor countries you have also triggered off a wild inventions, production, business, marketing, advertising and overconsumption explosion in the rich countries. In these countries an individual consumes 30 times more of my resources than in the poor countries. From my point of view, namely the damages you do to my body, your population statistics are wrong: while the less developed countries count 4.7 billion people, the more developed countries' 1.2 billion should be multiplied by 30, i.e. they represent in my eyes 36 billion people!"

A year later I have to add this new complaint by the Earth:

"Since I see now the poor countries being invaded by western marketing, advertisement and multinational corporations to increase their business and sales, and since the ideal of the poor countries is to attain the western levels of consumption, I see an even greater disaster coming up: if the 4.7 billion people of the poor countries ever reach the levels of consumption of the rich, your population statistics would again have to be changed: multiplied by thirty times, they would represent from my point of view 141 billion people. And since the people of the poor countries are expected to be 7.75 billion in 2050*, they would represent from my point of view a total of 232.5 billion people!

This would mean the end of my evolution, of most of my nature, of many species, including the human one, which it took me millions of years to evolve."

*The UN's latest forecasts of the world population in 2050 are: a total world population of 8.91 billion, of which 1.16 billion (a decline of 40 million) in the rich countries and 7.75 billion (an increase of 3.05 billion) in the poor countries. World population in October 1999: 6 billion people.

~ Idea 2003 ~
From the preceding excursion into the future follow three major conclusions:

1. we must absolutely accelerate and intensify our efforts to reduce the world population explosion;

2. we must raise forcefully the necessity to reduce also the consumption explosion;

3. the same way as the UN created a World Population Commission, a Population Division and a UN Population Fund, it must urgently create also a World Consumption Commission, a Consumption Division and a UN Consumption Fund. A World Population Agency and a World Consumption Agency would be even better.

~ Idea 2004 ~
A new fundamental factor in our society is that the rich countries are becoming richer and the poor countries poorer. As was reported by the UN in 1997, 100 nations have become poorer in the last 15 years. And in all countries of the world the rich people are getting richer and the poor poorer. This is due to the possession of capital by the rich and the non-possession of capital and the saving inability of the poor.

Countries: huge capital of the rich governments, of multinational corporations with seats in these countries, major scientific and technological property rights, advanced scientific research capacities, high levels of education, especially massive business education, ownership of natural resources in poor countries, military power to defend this situation, and use of foreign 'aid' to get their way and exercise pressure on the poor countries.

Individuals: inheritances, accumulated savings, properties and capital of their forebears, family fortunes, higher scientific, technological and business education, often no need to work at all, just letting their capital grow in stock markets, trust funds, mutual funds, deposits in foreign banks and actual or fictitious domicile in foreign tax havens.

In poor countries and for the poor everywhere it is just the contrary. Even immigrants in rich countries cannot make it because their salaries are barely sufficient to pay for their lodging and nourishment.

Among the rich countries and people it is the United States and its citizens who are getting ever richer. This position of the US in the world allows it to rule practically the entire planet and its outer space.

To counter this, the European countries have created a Union of fifteen countries which will be the second richest and powerful community on Earth. The union has created its own currency, the first one to escape from the USA monetary domination and money creation in the world.

I recommend that the poor countries do the same and create a World Union of Poor Countries on the pattern of the European Union, thus creating their own multinational government. They will thus rule over their own natural resources and territories which are their main capital. They will have a base for a collective bargaining power. They will be able to prevent their invasion by foreign capital, by rich dominant multinational corporations, foreign marketing and advertisement. They could create their own common currency in addition to their national ones, as Europe has done. They would be able to define their own ideals, policies, ways of life and preservation of their cultures.

I recommend that they start this process forthwith without waiting for a reform of the United Nations. They have waited for that reform in vain for more than fifty years. Nothing has happened, rather the contrary, namely a constant weakening of the United Nations by the United States, now candidate for sole world power.

~ Idea 2005 ~
In Idea 190 I said, "In order to save our Earth it is imperative to disarm and demilitarize the planet and use the 3/4 of a trillion dollars released for urgent purposes related to our environment and vital elements of life. The oxygen of our lungs has become our most important need and security. Carbon dioxide has become a greater enemy than any foreign country."

Today one now hears the military say that they will be needed to insure the defense of the waters and oxygen of their country and secure free access to the waters and oxygen of other countries, if need be to conquer them. The only answer is the creation of a proper common Earth government equipped to ensure water and oxygen to all humanity and with a central world security system beneficial to all nations.

~ Idea 2006 ~
There are still so many injustices in this world with new ones coming up constantly that I propose a new science or discipline called injustology. University departments under that name would prepare and train a new profession of injustologists. The subject of injustices should be regularly covered in newspapers and all medias.

~ Idea 2007 ~
On each floor of the United Nations, in each of its agencies and in all institutions on Earth there should be a peasant or an indigenous elder who would remind the leaders and workers of these agencies to have common sense and to think of the little people.

~ Idea 2008 ~
We do not have a single doctorate in the art of living on this planet. This is astonishing when every human being seeks to be happy, to be fulfilled and to play a useful role on Earth.

~ Idea 2009 ~
Humanity is incredibly neglecting the future. Very few people think about it, care about it. There are no Ministries of the Future in governments, no Main Committee on the Future in the United Nations. We will have to pay very dearly for this. We should also be thinking of the emergencies which we will have to face, one after the other, as a payment for this neglect.

~ Idea 2010 ~
If all humans were not smoking, not taking drugs, not drinking alcoholic and carbonated drinks, drinking only pure water and fruit juices, not consuming canned, non-natural foods tampered by biological engineering, what a different peaceful, happy, fulfilled world it would be! Try it dear reader, and you will be amazed by the results. You will feel in heaven and be down here on Earth for quite a longer time.

Governments should help in this process by at least prohibiting advertisement of harmful products.

~ Idea 2011 ~
It is astonishing that given the manifold adverse effects of advertisement, no international effort has been made as yet to control this sector of human activities, to proclaim an ethics for advertisement and to protect humans against its exaggerations, non-truths and damaging effects on human life and the Earth.

~ Idea 2012 ~
Everybody complains about violence but few dare or make the effort to obtain government control over violence in the media. We should therefore not be surprised of the kind of world we have. Peoples' peace and anti-war movements have succeeded in reducing international wars to practically zero. We need now anti-militarism, anti-armaments, anti-religious wars, anti-ethnic wars and every conceivable anti-any form of violence movements. An anti-violence in the media movement should be high on the list.

~ Idea 2013 ~
A mere re-drafting and amending of the United Nations Charter would be insufficient to respond to the new requirements and urgencies of our time. Only a new charter, rethought from scratch, can do the job or a World Union Charter like the European Union or a United States of the World.

~ Idea 2014 ~
Future historians will write that at the end of the twentieth century the United States turned from a world inspiring country into the major world domineering and destroying country. Its scientific, technological, economic, financial and business successes went up to its head, were promoted and imitated blindly by the rest of the world, impairing further evolution on this planet.

I see only one hope: that US capitalism will now disintegrate as the second obsolete nineteenth century ideology, as was communism.

~ Idea 2015 ~
From my observations of the incredible, admirable, diverse nature of Costa Rica I have concluded that the main objective of nature is ever more perfect, successful reproductions and increased diversity. Every seed is cared for and enrobed in the necessary nutrients and liquids to bring forth life. We should therefore never eat fruits which have been bio-tampered to have no seeds. Nature will not continue to make an effort and what we eat will no longer be natural or healthy.

Alas, this bio-tampering is now being practiced on massive scales by most western countries. The attempts to hold a world conference in Colombia to end the scientific tampering of seeds and agricultural products has been killed by the United States for commercial reasons arguing that it would affect fifty billion dollars of yearly exports of US farm products which are biologically 'engineered'. The United States had already rejected the convention on biological diversity drafted at the Rio de Janeiro Conference of the United Nations in 1992.

~ Idea 2016 ~
It would be very interesting to be informed on how much big, multinational business corporations on the one hand and national governments, regional and world organizations on the other hand practice futurology, i.e. the study, evaluation, forecasting of future trends, promises, opportunities, dangers and failures of our evolution.

~ Idea 2017 ~
What a pity and regret that the United States no longer merits to be the seat of the United Nations. The world of tomorrow deserves to be built around the new borderless European Union since the United States opposes any changes in an obsolete, fifty-five years old Charter of the United Nations born on US soil from the US dream at that time. The United Nations has no future if it stays in the United States unless the United States brings forth a new world vision and leadership role of the United Nations.

~ Idea 2018 ~
It would be beneficial for the United States to agree with the move of the United Nations to another country because then it can complain of the insufficiencies of the United Nations on foreign soil rather than get the blame of its inefficiency on United States soil. It would no longer want to be a member of the United Nations and would be able to continue its world-wide power dream without having to listen to anyone else. As for the remaining countries of the world, they would take cognizance of their own individuality and contribution to a better world and no longer imitate blindly the United States as the great model for modern times. The United States, unfortunately is no longer that model. Forty-five percent of the US population are of that opinion.

~ Idea 2019 ~
At the UN Medical Analysis Office where I was sent for a yearly check-up, I saw a diploma hanging on a wall saying that the lady who headed the office was a member of the Costa Rican Association of Microbiologists.
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I asked her if she had ever heard of an Association of Macrobiologists. No, she had never heard of one and doubted that there existed one on this planet. I said, "Well, that is strange because science never ceases to dig into the ever smaller but seems to shy away from the whole. Macrobiology would do for the totality of life forms on this planet what you do for your individual patients and their blood and liquids. Macrobiology would deal with the respective life forms, locations, interdependencies, vegetal and animal, all over the planet. It could be one of the most essential sciences on this planet. It would be fascinating to be a macrobiologist."

~ Idea 2020 ~
What Barbara and I did with our little wooden farmhouse in Costa Rica on a sacred hill above the UN University for Peace is marvelous: we achieved good order, harmony and beauty in it with acts of intelligence, self-interest and deep love for the saintly, marvelous nature surrounding us.

Why doesn't humanity do the same for our entire home, the Earth: achieve good order, harmony, beauty and love for holy nature. This could be a new, wonderful policy for the 21st century.

It reminds me of the indigenous woman who was asked how the world should be governed. She answered, "If you know how to run a family, you will know how to run the world." Yes, the ultimate, highest task of politics is to achieve a well run human family in a well-preserved planetary home.

~ Idea 2021 ~
The World Core Curriculum in Volume I, page 18 could serve as a basic framework for a world employment policy. I could well see the curriculum reproduced on a wall at the United Nations International Labor Organization, or in the Director General's Office. Under each segment there would be actual employment and forecasts: will employment diminish or increase in that sector? For example, the environment is a recent field of concern which provides for increasing employment while militarism and armaments no longer look so good. The information could be by industries, countries and regions.

~ Idea 2022 ~
There are thousands of books published around the world as part of national literatures, often in collections of huge, complete works of national authors. But where are the collections of world authors, a true, badly needed world, global literature? There is none. My global books find only a haphazard place in certain national literatures. When I die there will never be a collection of the complete works of Robert Muller, contrary to the case of so many national authors. I care for the inspiration, thinking and action results of my works in any nation where they are published and kept in print. Alas, in the absence of a global, world literature and publishing houses, they are mere drops of water in the ocean.

~ Idea 2023 ~
Perhaps the word government should be suppressed at this stage of our evolution and replaced by common services. The United Nations would become the world's common services, with ocean common services, air and atmosphere common services, world agricultural, educational, etc. common services corresponding to what are today the 32 United Nations Specialized Agencies and World Programs. Under them there would be:

common services for continents
common European services
common American services
common Asian services
common Oceanic services
common services for nations
common services for provinces
common services for cities
for all local communities
for neighborhood communities
for people living in the same building
common services for families.

Nobody would really govern or rule the world, all would be done by cooperation and common interests and services from the local to the global communities.

~ Idea 2024 ~
We must simplify, purify our western lives from the innumerable, unceasing, increasing, never ending diversity of outside incursions into our personal lives by sight, sound and consumption.

I love these words once uttered by Pablo Casals during one of his visits to the United Nations, "Life is simple. Everything must be simple in life. There are too many complicated people. They complicate themselves, they complicate life. We must fashion a simple world in which humans can be happy, not this ugly world of armaments and hatred. Here, in the United Nations, is our home. It stands for humankind. This is why I have never failed to be of help to you. The final word for life, the great secret, is love."

~ Idea 2025 ~
The forces or laws of evolution will not allow us not to succeed. They didn't take all the pains to create the extraordinary human species as the lead species of evolution to let us now destroy its achievements. Quite the contrary, they will enable, guide and almost force us, even unwillingly, to make this planet the ultimate success intended by evolution, the cosmos or God.

~ Idea 2026 ~
Or might evolution, on the contrary have decided that the human species has become an evolutionary aberration and will do everything possible to get rid of us?

In that case, what will be the main factors or means of our destruction: the disappearance of oxygen, the ultra-violet rays going through the ozonosphere, Aids, the giving up of the human immune system, the reciprocal destruction of humans in wars over territories and resources, the nuclearization of the planet, mounting waves of cancer? Only God knows.

~ Idea 2027 ~
It is not the over-population of the poor countries which is the main global menace on this planet. Disaster cause number one is the over-production and over-consumption of unnecessary, wasteful products and services and needless activities of the peoples of the western world offered as a model and ideal of 'development' to the poor countries. Half of the total production of the western countries consists already of waste.

~ Idea 2028 ~
Yes, we must start a world crusade against over-consumption, waste, unnecessary consumption and services, useless activities, unnecessary transports, tourism and travel, built-in obsolescence in manufactured products, over-packaging and all other unnecessary-Earth-destroying productions and activities invented and promoted by the so called genial western economic system which has become a disaster for the Earth, the biggest, most monumental war ever in human history. Past wars were little compared with it.

~ Idea 2029 ~
A growing number of western youth does not want to have children any more. How can they renounce this incredible happiness instead of fighting against the over-consumption, useless consumption and waste the western society has created as the ultimate ideal for humans?

If people in the west would live simple and less wasteful lives there would be ample room for more children. How sad that live, miraculous little children have to give way to excessive consumption and possessions of life-less material 'goods'.

The whole western world has become decadent considered from the Earth's point of view and soon also from the people's point of view. Nearly three quarters of Americans believe the world as we know it now will undergo radical and catastrophic changes by an act of God.

~ Idea 2030 ~
The world's Non-governmental Organizations, under the leadership of those accredited to the United Nations, should become a second United Nations. They should deal with all major problems before the United Nations and group or associate themselves accordingly. I could well see NGO World Associations on world security, disarmament, demilitarization, anti-useless development, distribution of world income, natural resources, the environment, human rights, just taxation, etc. They should do the basic re-thinking of the twenty-one human sectors listed in Ideas 527 to 547. They should appoint a Secretary General of that second United Nations and create a common secretariat for it. Later the NGWO (Non-governmental World Organization) could become the World's House of Peoples' Representatives and the UN its Senate of Government Representatives.
 

~ Idea 2031 ~
Dear God, allow me to be your full servant to make of this Earth a true paradise of love, peace and beauty and of your children the divine species which you have created. After thousands of years of efforts, allow us at long last to succeed and become the ultimate jewel of Your creation.

~ Idea 2032 ~
The little Robert Muller farmhouse on sacred Mount Rasur in Costa Rica and the farm of Sima Mon Amour in St. Gix Divonne-les-Bains, France, are two of my dreams come true, the two poles of irradiation of a new world, the centers of peace and happiness for which I labored all my life. All homes on Earth should be that.

Margarite Gallo and Barbara Gaughen were the two god-sent, wonderful, loving life companions who inspired me, led me and never allowed me to give up the extraordinary, almost impossible mission they saw in my life.

~ Idea 2033 ~
All humans, all professions, all institutions, all cultures, all religions, all human groups should have one supreme objective and question: is what I do or we do an action of love for all this Earth and all humanity? Is it a contribution to a better world, to an ultimate, peaceful, perfect success of the will of God and of the cosmic forces of the universe?

~ Idea 2034 ~
 

O divine life of mine, never let me do something which is not an act of love, a contribution to a better world and humanity, starting with my own miraculous being, with my divine life companion Barbara, with my family and with all communities of the world up to the highest, first noble universal achievement of all humanity and of this Earth, the United Nations.

~ Idea 2035 ~
How can this Earth survive when in a small health-restoring community like Divonne-les-Bains in France one hears already at four o'clock in the morning an uninterrupted flow of trucks and cars going where? Doing what? The world of business and busyness?

~ Idea 2036 ~
Why do I wake up so often in the middle of the night thinking about the capitalist system which is ruining this Earth and will soon end in disaster?

Why do I think of a new world monetary system with a new monetary unit, the Terra, replacing the US dollar, following the example of the European Euro?

Why did I meet at the second World Peace Conference in the Hague, a former high official of the International Monetary Fund who has become the head of a religious order instead of offering the world a new world monetary system?

~ Idea 2037 ~
There is an urgent need to create a group of great world lovers and thinkers to save the Earth and re-think all major forms of human activity. We should establish it with the Earth Council which will move to the UN University for Peace. I will think of its members. Elizabet Sathouris, the evolutionary biologist, Barbara my wife, Erika Erdmann, Barbara Marx-Hubbard and Donella Meadows are the first names that come to my mind, all five women.

~ Idea 2038 ~
I opened twenty-one files to record ideas for the twenty-one fundamental segments of human activities, behaviors and concerns on this planet. Two ideas came to me this morning on human employment. I am not a voice in the desert. I am a voice in a growing world mess, human bewilderment and search for answers.

~ Idea 2039 ~
The new World Commission on Global Consciousness and Spirituality created by Dr. Karan Singh of India and myself should have its seat at the University for Peace on sacred Mount Rasur. I must make sure of it.

~ Idea 2040 ~
My Alsatian friend, Georges Schmidt, who joined the United Nations the same year as I in 1948 became the world record holder of world languages. He knew 115 of them. I probably hold the world record of the largest number of ideas for a better world: two thousand published, another 1000 in the works and innumerable ones in my speeches, journals, articles and sixteen books so far.
But I am largely beaten by the flood of ideas produced by businessmen flocking to the skyscrapers of the world to make more money and the military inventing more arms to sell them all over the world. It is an absolute scandal that in the United States the expenses on the military and armaments are equivalent to all the rest of the US budget, health, education, foreign affairs and social security combined. One wonders why the people accept that. I am glad to end my life in Costa Rica, where the military are prohibited by constitution since 1949.

~ Idea 2041 ~
When one reads global newspapers like the International Herald Tribune, one gets the impression that this is the worst managed planet in the universe. The nation-state system has become an obsolete political system. This statement by George Washington applies fully to today's world political situation: "The primary cause of all disorders lies in the different state governments and in the tenacity of that power which pervades the whole of their systems." This should be the priority issue on the world agenda.

~ Idea 2042 ~
It is as timely and urgent to convene in the year 2001 a World Conference on the Evolution of the Earth and of Humanity to the Year 3000 as it was to convene in 1972 the first World Conference on the Environment. It would create a shock as great as did the conference on the environment. Very substantial changes in human values, behavior and policies must be made and would follow.

~ Idea 2043 ~
In view of catastrophes likely to occur in the third millennium (geological, climatic, biological and manmade) I recommend the early establishment of a UN World Fund of Prevention endowed with billions of dollars or Terras to intervene quickly when catastrophes will occur.

~ Idea 2044 ~
I recommend that henceforth a new category of nation-states should be labeled: the group of Earth-irresponsible, insane nations, namely those possessing and not destroying their nuclear arms. Noone should admire them. The non-nuclear nations should pity them and tell them how happy and proud they are not to have nuclear arms.

~ Idea 2045 ~
I hope that to celebrate the year 2000 and our entry into a new century and millennium the nuclear powers will destroy at least a few nuclear arms during that year. The world would applaud and rejoice.

~ Idea 2046 ~
It is with thousands of ideas, big and small, from world/global to individual/local ones that we can save this Earth and make humanity the peaceful, happy, fulfilled miraculous species intended by God and by the mysterious evolutionary forces of the universe. Dear readers, come up with ideas, write them down, promote them and do everything you can to get them implemented.

~ Idea 2047 ~
I prayed for health and a long life to do great things and so far I have been blessed with both. I sometimes feel that God and the mysterious forces of the universe are amidst us, anxious to help but we must ask, we must open ourselves to let them in. If we are closed to them, they cannot enter. "Ask and you shall receive."

~ Idea 2048 ~
The notions of evil and bad were essential from the beginning of evolution because the first humans had to experience and communicate to their children what should be avoided. Later this was used by groups of humans: local communities, tribes, religions, language groups and finally nations. The next great step of evolution, which is in full birthing now, is to define what is good and evil for the whole of humanity and for the Earth. The only retarding elements are the former groups which want to keep their fullest possible power, even increase it.

Another new, dangerous factor is that merchants and business which globalized themselves first, have the upper hand in deciding what is good and bad for the people but not in order to achieve a better humanity and a well-governed planet. The world must challenge the claim of business that with total freedom and more money they will solve all problems of the world. It just is not so. Quite the contrary.

~ Idea 2049 ~
Historically it will be the privilege of capitalism to destroy the Earth in the 21st century unless government re-establishes its pre-eminent role and function for the people's and the Earth's fate. The communists must be glad to have given up their pretense to create a perfect, just world. Now the issue rests on the shoulders of capitalism.

~ Idea 2050 ~
Western countries, especially the United States, have their mouths full of fundamental human rights and are ready to bomb other countries who do no fulfill such rights.

But we should claim, at the beginning of the 21st century and third millennium, the basic human right not to be enlisted in an army and to kill other human beings for national or religious causes .

Killing another human being is murder, but nations give medals and honors for it. It is high time to claim that new fundamental human right. Without it the human rights chapter of humanity is incomplete. Anyone being enlisted in an army and being trained to kill should have the right to come before the International Court of Justice and claim that this is the most flagrant injustice on this planet. Conflicts must be solved by peaceful means and not with armaments, bombs, individual and wholesale murders.

~ Idea 2051 ~
The active, passionate cooperation between all people, groups, institutions, religions and nations for the survival of our Earth and of humanity must be our greatest hope and objective in the 21st century.

~ Idea 2052 ~
It would be good if the 300 million indigenous people on this planet would refuse to drive cars, to take airplanes and to go on tourism in hotels around the world. It would be a lesson to the western people and a great blessing for the Earth.

~ Idea 2053 ~
Humans are a strange race. They spend infinitely more time on building perfectly running airplanes and atomic missiles than on achieving a perfectly running human society. The latter is almost ignored except how to get taxes to build more perfectly running airplanes and atomic missiles. No wonder that our political and social management of the planet and humanity is a dismal mess of incredible duplications between 189 nations. Military expenditures alone of humanity are equal to all other expenditures by governments on this planet! What an aberration. People are sheep not to revolt against it.

~ Idea 2054 ~
To conceive great ideas keep your eyes on the stars.

To implement them, keep your feet on Earth.

~ Idea 2055 ~
Why do groups of humans on this planet continue to believe that they have the ultimate truth? Why is that so? We had the Roman Empire, they called it the Pax Romana which they imposed with the Roman legions all over Europe. We had the Pax Britannica with the British ruling all their colonies. We have now the United States which rules the world with its money, corporations and industrial military advance. Many of the religions continue to assert that they have the ultimate truth, that there is no other truth than their own Why is it not possible for all these groups to get together and to work on what they have in common? The United Nations is a first, very modest but wonderful attempt to do it for nations. But the United States doesn't like it because it wants to rule the world. We're now going to have, thank God, the United Religions which I advocated at the 1993 World Parliament of Religions. So there is some progress but we're losing incredible time. Since 1970 we have destroyed one-third of the nature of this planet. If we continue with the same population and consumption explosions we will have only seventy years until we have destroyed all nature. Why do leaders of nations not react against this? Why do they only think of their nation, their party, their religion, their constituency? This has become a major disaster. The merchants are now ruling the world because they were intelligent enough to rapidly globalize themselves after World War II. This new global power is supported by the United States and those countries where the seats of the multinational corporations are located and bring in money. We have now a coalition of the rulers, the merchants and the military to support and strengthen this whole system. What a world! This is the situation which prevails at the beginning of a new millennium. One has really the impression that we humans are still a very primitive, underdeveloped species.

~ Idea 2056 ~
We should not speak only of 'sustainable development' but also of 'unsustainable destruction'. Indeed the Earth, which has been and could be ignored so far by humans wanting to develop, is now being destroyed by giant business in the name of economic development and growth. The new, biggest war ever on this planet is now the war against the Earth.

~ Idea 2057 ~
Communism has died. It is now the turn of capitalism to change or die. The new ideology should be Earthism, the proper management and conservation of our precious, life-nurturing and sustaining Earth. Capital should be used to save the Earth and become eco-capitalism.

~ Idea 2058 ~
Where is the new Andrew Carnegie who will hire scholars to conceive and draft the statutes of a new world organization, of a proper Earth government, of a World Constitution? He did it by bringing over to the United States, two Belgian scholars during World War I who drafted the statutes of the League of Nations, the first international organization in world history, forerunner of the United Nations which must now be replaced by something infinitely better, commensurate with the new, mind-boggling global needs and problems of the third millennium.

~ Idea 2059 ~
The 21st century will be the century of world union or there will be no 21st century. It must see the birth of a borderless world on the model of the successful borderless European Union between fifteen formerly inimical nations.

Who will create a body of eminent world thinkers and political architects to plan and give birth to a world union? Perhaps since my compatriot from Alsace Lorraine, Robert Schuman fulfilled his dream for a United Europe I must follow his example and try to fulfill my dream for a peaceful World Union. He died and never saw his dream fulfilled. I went to his tomb to report it to him. I will probably die too before I see my dream fulfilled. I hope that someone will be so kind and visit my tomb to report success to me.

~ Idea 2060 ~
The United Nations and its 32 specialized agencies and world programs should create an Earth-wide World Investments Fund in which the world civil servants, families and any people and institutions on Earth could invest their money and savings. The funds would be invested only in projects and productions beneficial to the peoples health and welfare, especially the poor and helpless, and to the preservation of the Earth. It would be the world's first global ethical investment fund aimed at world justice, the welfare of the people and the salvation of the Earth.

~ Idea 2061 ~
On a bank in San Jose, Costa Rica, I saw for the first time a big sign saying: "The world population has reached 6 billion people." I hope the whole business and advertisement world will help in solving our global problems.

~ Idea 2062 ~
When I was a child in our province of Alsace Lorraine where we still spoke a German dialect, I often heard people say, "Geld regiert die Welt, money rules the world." Today, as an elder, I would say, "Geld vernichted die Welt, money destroys the world."

~ Idea 2063 ~
UN world conferences on life and death global issues should be held much more frequently. Instead of every 20 or 10 years as was the case until now, such conferences should be held at least every five years, some even should remain in permanent session until their objectives are attained.

~ Idea 2064 ~
The rose garden adjacent to the visitors' entrance of the United Nations in New York and the vast Parc des Nations of the UN in Geneva should be transformed into Peace and Human Rights Parks open to people. Statues and busts of great peacemakers and human rights defenders should be erected on them, following our example at the UN University for Peace in Costa Rica. The vaster Park in Geneva could also be made into an ecological demonstration center for the public.

~ Idea 2065 ~
Given our slowness to react to many mounting global, evolutionary problems which might create untold havoc if unattended, I recommend that a Global Emergencies Unit be created in the office of the UN Secretary General and of each head of state.

~ Idea 2066 ~
André Malraux, the French atheist and famous writer said: "The third millennium will be spiritual or there will be no third millennium." I would go further and say that the next millennium must be a cosmic, spiritual millennium, or there will be no third millennium.

I am glad that I obtained the creation of a World Commission on Global Consciousness and Spirituality. Being a co-chairman of it, I will try to gear its work into the larger framework of evolutionary, cosmic consciousness.

When future historians will look back at our twentieth century they will recognize in it the birth at long last, of a natural, global, celestial consciousness to humanity.

~ Idea 2067 ~
The dominant political and economic systems of planet Earth are so wrong that one could cry. If beings from outer space would visit us they would not believe their eyes.

~ Idea 2068 ~
We do not have to worry if there will be enough food on this planet to feed the increasing human population. The packaging industry alone, through its colossal waste of resources will be able to put an end to our future.

~ Idea 2069 ~
I recommend that during the General Assembly 2000 all countries which received Marshall Aid after the second World War should give back this sum to a United Nations Revolving Fund to help the poor countries. When a poor country becomes rich it will then return the same sum received to help other poorer countries. I would also like to see many restitutions of stolen works of art and antiquities as well as restitutions of assets hoarded by the Nazis abroad. The Secretary General of the UN should establish a list of specific actions, misdeeds and injustices committed by governments, religions and other institutions which should be repaired in the year 2000 or after.

~ Idea 2070 ~
I recommend that consideration be given to yearly reports by the United Nations and all its agencies and world programs on the degree of globalization in all fields of human concern.

~ Idea 2071 ~
Has there ever been, will there ever be a country where the prices go down?

No, at least there was none in the past.

So why speak of economy, economics, higher productivity, economic systems, economic progress and higher standards of living?

An answer should be given by governments and their economists to this basic, legitimate people's question.

~ Idea 2072 ~
What we call economic progress is in reality in many places and on an increasing scale an Earth regress. It is not yet called that in our century. But it will in the 21st century.

Advertisement, the media, the packaging industries, economists, marketing experts, architects and the construction industries will be accused of putting an end to life on this planet. And they in turn will put the blame on Universities and governments.

~ Idea 2073 ~
To foster a world spiritual renaissance I recommend that all religions should allow their clergies, male and female, to be married in order to increase the number of spiritual families and children raised in such families.

~ Idea 2074 ~
The 21st century must see humanity's transcendence into cosmic consciousness in space and time. Then human sciences and religions will come together. Then we will have a peaceful, harmonious, fulfilled planet and humanity, functioning according to the laws of the universe. We have already a World Natural Law Party. We must have next a World Cosmic Laws Party.

~ Idea 2075 ~
The creation of philanthropic foundations is becoming a strong movement in the world. I suggest that it should be a new, major subject in universities. A yearly report and statistics on philanthropy should be published by the United Nations (see my proposal on philanthropy in Introduction to Ideas 1701 to 1800 in Volume IV). A World Philanthropic and Gaiaphilic Organization and University should be created.

~ Idea 2076 ~
The western countries have begun to spend monstrous sums for waste disposal. The UN should publish world statistics on these expenditures. In the US it has become a 32 billion dollars a year 'industry'. And this sum is entered into the gross national product!

~ Idea 2077 ~
Humans should claim the fundamental right not to be buried in a vault of concrete or in a metal box nor to be burned but to have their body returned to Mother Earth, preferably with a tree planted on the ground above them so that they can resurrect into other life forms as the law of nature wants it. Our bodies are all Earth and must return to the Earth. The Earth cannot be deprived of the colossal biomass of dead humans, increasing year after year.

~ Idea 2078 ~
No humans should accept as gifts T-shirts or head-gears bearing the advertisement of a commercial firm or product. When offered to them, people should at least request a few hundred dollars to wear them instead of giving out free advertisement. The same with business signs on shops offered 'free' by 'soft drinks' and cigarette firms all over the world, especially in the poor countries.

~ Idea 2079 ~
The UN should be enabled to conduct world-wide public opinion polls on all major world issues. I recommend the creation of a UN World Public Opinion Bureau. What a boost to democracy and evolution that would be!

~ Idea 2080 ~
Humanity has invested enormous efforts and obtained great successes in the optical science, the knowledge and healing of our miraculous eyesight capacity.

In the third millennium we must devote as much effort in our human capacity to see with other means:

to see with our dreams (dreamsight)
to see with our mind (mindsight)
to see with our heart (heartsight)
to see with our soul (soulsight)
to see with music (musicsight)
to see with art and writing (artsight, writingsight)

Just think of the Ode to Joy of Beethoven, the Ave Maria of Gounod which bring tears to our eyes, and of the Italian popular O Sole Mio.

I cannot live without writing my visions, dreams and ideas and trying to fashion them into realities. I recommend that a World University of Visions be created on an elevated place, nearer to God and the heavens. Sacred Mt. Rasur in Costa Rica, the seat of the UN University for Peace and the Earth Council.

~ Idea 2081 ~
Henceforth, during the 21st century and 3rd millennium, the evolution of the Earth and of humanity must be our foremost priorities: all other entities and 'sovereignties' must fall into place, into service to that.

~ Idea 2082 ~
Efforts and success in demilitarization are more effective than efforts for disarmament. Why? Because the weapons manufacturers have their lobby with the military and the government. But if there is demilitarization there will be no soldiers to use the weapons. Hence, armaments will disappear.

~ Idea 2083 ~
When a child begins to walk, you encourage it and do not scold it for its weaknesses. It is the same with nations' children's steps for world peace, cooperation and union in the young United Nations, their kindergarten. Encourage them and say bravo to their first successes which prepare high school and university.

~ Idea 2084 ~
In my opinion it is humanity's dreams and ideas
that decide our fate
There is no other kind of fate.
I do not believe therefore
that we must necessarily continue
to follow the path which leads
only downwards; we may yet turn about
before we arrive at the very end.

This is an Albert Schweitzer text in which I replaced in the first line "man's temperament" by "humanity's dreams and ideas".

~ Idea 2085 ~
After a speech at Ames University, in Iowa, I was accompanied in the bus to the airport by a Professor who told me: "I am a Professor of Agricultural Mechanics and Engineering. We have reduced agricultural workers to the minimum. I have invented machines which make bales of straw and hay as big as a house. We have reduced to a minimum warehouses to stock agricultural products. We have reduced the length of the stems of corn and wheat to increase productivity. And what was the result? To enrich the cities and not the rural areas, to increase the size of the cities and to reduce the people living on the land. The Earth is 98% made of air, water and soil, and not of cities. We have invented poisons to kill the insects feeding on plants and today my children accuse me of having put such poisons into circulation. I do not know what to think anymore. My whole life appears now as a vast error."

More and more people ask themselves the same question, now that the fate of the entire Earth and of all humanity are in peril.

~ Idea 2086 ~
It would be good if an agency or institute of the United Nations would undertake a study of how world and global affairs of this planet and of humanity are being handled by the 189 national governments. At what level are they handled? At the Prime Minister's level, by a Vice President for Global Affairs (United States), by a Ministry of Foreign or External Affairs, regionally or by substance, by each ministry in its own area of substance, the role of Parliament?

Such a study would put the finger on some very fundamental questions of our time and would enlighten governments. It would be hailed as a very important document for our new century and millennium when global problems are growing in numbers and in importance and at an accelerated rate endangering or uplifting our entire future.

~ Idea 2087 ~
We absolutely need a World Agency of Philosophy to look into the meaning of life on this extraordinary, miraculous planet in the universe. It would be enlightening for all other world agencies and for governments.

~ Idea 2088 ~
The word politics should be abolished. It is an obsolete remnant of the ancient Greeks who administered at the time only a city (polis). Today it is a total Earth process, a biological, cosmic phenomenon: we must take care of the whole biology, life forms and processes on this planet. Planetics would be my preferred word. But the words are less important than the actual tasks and responsibilities now incumbent on the human species. This will mark the whole new century and millennium.

~ Idea 2089 ~
In the new world each human being should be recognized as having a specific role or message that should be read by this person. Each individual should read himself and find the reason why he or she is alive, the mission, the role, the duty expected by God, by the universe, by humanity and the Earth. This will be the foundation of a new democracy, a government by the people, by the cosmic units, a cosmocracy.

~ Idea 2090 ~
There are on our planet innumerable scientists, doctors, institutions and firms whose main objective is to prolong human longevity, the miracle of human life, and to postpone death, the end of human life.

And yet on the same planet the biggest expenditures of nations are on the creation of instruments of death: armaments, bombs of all kinds, and the training and maintenance of millions of militaries prepared to kill other humans, to end lives at any moment on massive scales, hundreds of millions in our civilized twentieth century alone.

I recommend that all doctors, scientists, institutes and firms working for life prolongation should request the disarmament and demilitarization of our planet. They should create a world movement to that effect and menace to go on strike.

~ Idea 2091 ~
My first deceased Chilean wife, Margarita often accused me and modern men to be restless dreamers never at real peace, always seeking new problems, new inventions, new markets, new products, new challenges. She said, "I never dream. We Latin Americans seldom dream. This unrest is a characteristic of northern people living in cold, hostile climates."

Well, in the Foundation for the Future an Australian anthropologist, Dr. Philip Tobias specializing in the world's long-term future came to the conclusion that only Africans and indigenous people will retain their basic humaneness while the western societies will lose theirs (order the video tape Tobias from the Foundation for the Future, 123 105th Ave. SE, Bellevue, Washington USA 98004, Telephone (425) 451-1333. Also ask for more information on the important work of that foundation which has as its time framework the year 3000.)

~ Idea 2092 ~
There might soon come a day when the distinction between developed and underdeveloped countries will be replaced by northern unlivable countries and southern, still livable countries.

~ Idea 2093 ~
God was very kind to me when he decided that I should leave the northern, western world and live in demilitarized, nature-rich Costa Rica, an 'island of sanity in the world', 'a remnant of paradise', except San Jose.

~ Idea 2094 ~
We absolutely need on this planet a new fundamental field of knowledge, investigations and concern at all levels of the human society, from the personal, local to the global level, namely the field of waste. We need:

a science of waste and anti-waste
a strategy of anti-waste
a methodology of anti-waste

In universities there should be a faculty of anti-waste, in governments a ministry of anti-waste and in the United Nations a Department of Anti-waste. Fifty percent of the whole production of the western countries are already waste! Where will it stop?

~ Idea 2095 ~
The United Nations should move out of the United States which persistently refuses to pay its dues to the world organization and cashes in most of the expenses of the UN and of the 189 delegations of member countries in New York City.

For the same reason the UN European Office located in Geneva should move out of Switzerland which is not even a member of the United Nations. All specialized agencies of the UN located in Geneva should reconsider their location and make in particular a move to Asia, the most populated continent in the world where practically no United Nations offices are located except one each in overpopulated Tokyo and Bangkok. There should be a more equitable and intelligent distribution of world agencies over this round planet.

~ Idea 2096 ~
We need a new age on this planet, an age of wanting less, buying less and accumulating less in order not to devastate our Earth and to regain our freedom and personality. The US can save itself and become a new source of inspiration to the world. It has the best thinkers, scientists and good-hearted people to do it. What a great new page of history, nay of evolution this would open! The US should prepare and offer a tremendous, unprecedented plan for our tomorrows everywhere in the world, in response to the agenda of the Heads of States General Assembly 2000. (see Introduction)

I have done my duty in my 2000 ideas and dreams especially in my statement at the Cagliari meeting in Sardinia on "The Absolute Urgent Need for Proper Government" (see Volume IV, Introduction to Part II). I pray that many other people and institutions will follow my example. Assailed by plans, ideas, peoples' movements, governments might finally give in and take up seriously the subject.

~ Idea 2097 ~
Due to wrong human thinking, wrong education, wrong powers, wrong values, wrong institutions, wrong laws and a very confused, checkered past, planet Earth is probably the worst run, most uneconomical and wasteful planet in the universe. May the advent of a new century and millennium engage our best minds to change very fundamentally our ways and political and economic systems and make this beautiful planet a cosmic success instead of a planet of waste.

~ Idea 2098 ~
Henceforth, anything that goes against the further evolution of the Earth and of humanity must be considered unethical, sometimes even criminal.

~ Idea 2099 ~
I was told that on the advice of two consultants in the field of philanthropy a US company decided to ask its stockholders to which causes its philanthropy should go. The answers were eighty percent in favor of spiritual causes and institutions. All companies should follow this good example. It would help the practice of democracy and bring about a better world.

~ Idea 2100 ~
In the European Union there are countries like Sweden which are much more advanced in the protection of the people than the United States. For example, there is an agreement between the government and Swedish toy manufacturers that they will not produce any war-type or violent toys for children. This example should be followed by many countries in the world. Also Sweden prohibits advertisements addressed to children less than twelve years old, another good example to follow.

ANNEX

Sample of letters I send constantly
to people in high positions who can
do something for a better world.

23 September 1993
Dear Mr. President,

I am so happy to congratulate you on your election to the Presidency of the General Assembly. I had received your remarkable press kit and I recognized you immediately from your picture, and your assignment to the United Nations, where I served for forty years, mostly in the economic field but also as Director of U Thant's and Kurt Waldheim's Executive Office. Under Javier Perez de Cuellar I was in charge of the fortieth anniversary of the UN, extended at his request beyond retirement age. And three days before actual retirement I was appointed one-dollar-a-year Chancellor of the UN University for Peace in Costa Rica.
The reason why I am writing to you is that I tried to advise and help the last three Presidents of the General Assembly, but only Samir Shihabi listened to me and thanked me before leaving, saying that I had helped him play a historical role in the Assembly, in particular by getting an early decision for the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the United Nations in 1995. I have asked my publisher to send you a copy of my Testament to the UN, a contribution to the fiftieth anniversary, and The Birth of a Global Civilization which has a chapter on UN celebrations, in particular the 50th anniversary and the year 2000. Herewith I am sending you also a Peace Plan 2010, several points of which have already been implemented, but there remains a lot to do. I was particularly glad that my proposal for a new Commission of Eminent Persons, after the Brundtland Commission, has been established under the Chairmanship of Mr. Ingvar Carlson, the former Prime Minister of Sweden, on the subject of Global Governance. The members have all my writings and I sent also the Peace Plan 2010 to the members of the Security Council when they met at long last at the heads of states level, something we have been clamoring for during years, with U Thant and Perez de Cuellar.
I take the liberty of suggesting to you a few avenues of possible action which would make your Presidency a historic event, leaving a mark on the history of the world at the end of this millennium.

1. As you will see from the peace Plan 2010, right at the beginning I suggest another Commission of Eminent Persons to deal with violence in all its forms in the world, or with non-violence. It is based on remarks by U Thant who often said to me that we westerners knew only how to speak about physical violence, but that there were other forms of violence preceding it, namely verbal violence and violence in the mind. My suggestion is that you may perhaps talk to the Ambassador of India and see if India would not want to call for a World Conference on Non-violence in one of the years to come. He could make the proposal on 5 October, anniversary of Gandhi. I think the world is waiting for a major move on the question of violence which is so wide-spread and rising. The world would applaud such a decision by the General Assembly.

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2. The fiftieth anniversary of the UN can be a great, unprecedented event. The subject is on the agenda of your Assembly. My impression from the reports of the Preparatory Committee is that things go pretty slowly. You should request that in their report they list the countries which have appointed National Committees and the composition of such committees. At a recent meeting of the First Ladies of Latin America and the Caribbean for the International year of the Family, I exhorted the ladies to get their husbands to appoint very eminent national committees for the anniversary. I hope there will be a substantive debate on what the anniversary can achieve. I remember that for the 25th anniversary, when I worked with U Thant we asked all Secretariat services to give us statistics and reports on the major changes during the last 25 years. The same could be requested of the Secretariat, namely a review of the last fifty years since World War II. Your session of the General Assembly should adopt a substantive resolution on what will be expected from the anniversary, almost an agenda for it, to help progress in history.

3. The celebration of the anniversary in San Francisco will be a big affair, with a majority of heads of states, like during the 40th anniversary where I underestimated the number of them who would come as I tell in my Testament. What preoccupies me is that it will be primarily a ceremonial affair, with big, lofty, philosophical speeches. I think more and more that it should be conceived as a milestone in peace-making. Why not convene in San Francisco in 1995 a world peace conference where heads of states would sit down and settle conflicts and problems as a contribution to the anniversary and to allow the world to move into the third millennium with a clean slate. This would impress the public. Perhaps such an idea would be welcomed by President Clinton who could make the proposal in a speech in the General Assembly. I am sure also that the City of San Francisco would be delighted and contribute to the costs: Rio de Janeiro attracted more than 100 heads of states and 30,000 people I just attended and spoke to the second World Parliament of Religions in Chicago, attended by 6000 people. The San Francisco Conference could be one of the greatest peace gatherings ever, thinking of the presence of so many peace groups. Maurice Strong would be the perfect man to organize it.

4. The enclosed correspondence from some media people shows the interest they may have in UN celebrations. They mention rightly the anniversary of UNICEF. A whole series of UN agencies are going to celebrate their fiftieth anniversary. An assistant could perhaps give you a list of such anniversaries. They might lend themselves to some consideration and thinking by the General Assembly. In this connection you may wish to read the chapter on global celebrations in my Birth of a Global Civilization. The media will certainly do something for these anniversaries. Ted Turner, a good friend of mine, made a film The 'House of Hope' for the 40th anniversary of the UN. It was seen by fifty million people. I suggested to him already two years ago to do some planning for 1995.

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5. As you will see from my Peace Plan 2010, I attach great importance to the celebration of the year 2000. I have written a poem about it years ago which has circulated around the world. My latest novel First Lady of the World turns around the year 2000. In The Birth of a Global Civilization I suggest that the Preparatory Committee for the fiftieth anniversary of the UN in 1995, should transform itself into the Preparatory Committee for the year 2000. I think it would be great if you could talk around you of the question: what will we do for the year 2000? The earlier the UN thinks about that, the better. After all it is the most universal organization and it should celebrate and take advantage of what is for all practical purposes a universal date. It would be wonderful if you could get something started for the Bimillennium. You could even consider calling for your own committee of eminent persons to prepare the Bimillennium after your term as President of the General Assembly. Your position is so eminent that you should not lose the momentum of it. Very few Presidents have been able to keep that momentum and to do something very visible and historic after their term.

Please do not bother to answer this letter. I know how busy you are. I would like to have the same agreement with you as I had with various Secretaries-Generals: that I write to them, when I have an idea, and that they never have to write back to me, especially when they do what I suggest to them!

I pray God that He will bless you Presidency
with many good things for this beautiful planet and
for its genial human race.
Yours in Peace

Robert Muller
Chancellor

H.E.Mr. S.R. Insanally
President of the General Assembly
United Nations

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1 April 1997
(E-mail)

To: His Excellency, the Honorable President William Clinton,
From: Dr. Robert Muller, Chancellor of the University for Peace

Dear President Clinton,

Since you are the President of the most prominent and forward-looking country in the world, may I suggest that you announce on 6 April, the date when 1000 days will be left to the Year 2000, the creation of a US Millennium Committee composed of the best thinkers and visioneers of the US, including youth, to offer the world by the year 2000 a new vision for the 21st century and the third millennium, a vision of peace, justice and well-being for all humanity.

It would be appropriate for you to be the President and Chair of that committee. Other countries would follow your example and the whole world would benefit from your history making initiative.

Peace to you
Yours Warmly

Robert Muller
Chancellor of the UN University for Peace
Former UN Assistant Secretary General

"Si vis pacem, para pacem"
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26 June 1998
Dear Mikhail Gorbachev,

We were sorry that due to health impediments you were unable to participate personally in the conference held under your auspices in Cagliari, Sardinia. I would have liked to talk to you and to convey to you an idea of mine. You know me indirectly from my book The Birth of a Global Civilization which Senator Alan Cranston gave you a couple of years ago. My feeling and idea is that you should announce to the world a Mikhail Gorbachev Plan for the proper government of planet Earth as we enter a new century and millennium. I am a Frenchman from Alsace-Lorraine who has lived the birth and the announcement of my compatriot Robert Schuman's Plan which led to the creation of the European Union. We need a similar bold plan for the world. If not, we will soon be in deep trouble. It is better to think and plan for a better international system of world government while there is peace than to wait for the time of trouble when emergency measures have to be quickly put together. We can no longer live in the kindergarten stage of the global age, waiting to react until we burn our fingers. In the enclosed paper submitted to your conference you will find several avenues into which we can engage. The world would not expect you to come out with a fully worked out plan. You could outline its main features, and announce that you establish a Gorbachev World Commission of Eminent Persons to work out the needed Plan and World System for proper government of our beautiful planet and the happiness and fulfillment of all humanity.
My wife Barbara, also a member of the Club of Budapest, sent you a year ago, on 26 June 1997, a similar message when you received the Planetary Consciousness Award in the City of Goethe. We reproduce it herewith.

With our warmest wishes for good health
and great happiness as well as to your wife Raissa

Barbara and Robert Muller

"Si vis pacem, para pacem"
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26 June 1997

Message to Mikhail Gorbachev on his receipt of the Planetary Consciousness Prize in the City of Frankfurt

We send you our warmest love, congratulations and prayers. May you become the prophet of a united human family, and the global architect who will give the world his vision, plan and proposals how the Earth and humanity can become the ultimate cosmic success of the universe and of God. May we be privileged to see soon a Gorbachev Plan for a World Union or Proper Earth Government as we saw a Robert Schuman Plan for a United Europe, now an astonishing reality. May you, all your co-workers and guests contribute to our entry into a new phase, the cosmic age of our evolution into the 21st century and third millennium.

Let us all heed the advice of the great Goethe, the honor of the City of Frankfurt in which you receive the Planetary Consciousness Prize:

"Whatever you can do or dream you can begin it,
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it."

Barbara and Robert Muller

6 March 1999
Dear Mr. Secretary General,

With the year 2000 you are becoming the most important person on Earth in the entire human history. How can you face this overwhelming challenge in one of the most complex and "messy" (your words used in the latest World Diplomatic Bulletin) human, Earth and evolutionary situations this planet has ever known?

Here are a few advices from a life-time world public servant and direct aide to three former Secretaries General:

1. You cannot count on anyone else but yourself. Every morning you must say to yourself when you wake up: I am the only one who can give the inspiration and ideas to the world regarding our future. You can be helped, but your final proposals and recommendations are yours. Pray God and the invisible forces of the universe to help you.

2. Place heads of national governments squarely before their responsibilities. Advise, inspire and elevate them in your personal Note Verbale to all heads of state as is usual before every General Assembly. This is an extremely important document. Tell them what you expect from them as actions between now and the Millennium General Assembly which they are expected to attend. Issue that Note Verbale as early as possible. Do not wait until we are closer to this year's General Assembly.

3. Mobilize the Administrative Committee of Coordination (your twice yearly World Cabinet Meeting), all substantive Secretariat services (headquarters and regional), and all specialized agencies and world programs to come up with states of the world reports in each of their fields and segments of the human and Earth condition. As part of their input, ask for the following:

- an inventory of achievements since the creation of that agency (in the case of the UN it already exists for the last fifty years)
- an inventory of major world problems and issues to be solved according to urgency (immediate, medium-term, long-term)
- an inventory of hopes
- an inventory of proposals, ideas and recommendations
a. regarding the need for changes in human values
b. regarding the need for changes in institutions and the creation of new ones
c. regarding necessary change in laws and implementation

4. The preceding will provide you with the basic materials for your personal report to the heads of states at the Millennium Assembly and make it the most comprehensive, courageous, epoch-making, forward-looking message in modern human history. It must serve as a guide and be quoted during the decades to come.
I have done my personal duty in producing 2000 Ideas and Dreams for a Better World based on my fifty years of world experience. They are finished, the last volume IV having just come out. I am sending it to you as I did the preceding three volumes. Since they are published well ahead of the year 2000, I will devote the rest of the current year to their dissemination and implementation. Being an advisory member of the newly created Foundation for the Future in Bellevue, State of Washington, which looks as far as the year 3000, I will continue to write a thousand more ideas. The Foundation will hold a conference of the world's 100 best futurologists and evolutionary scientists in Seattle in the summer of 2000 in time to issue their report for the Millennium General Assembly.

5. Please appoint one of your officials to read the four volumes and draw your attention to those ideas which you could use in your speeches and recommendations to the Millennium Assembly. He or she can count on my full cooperation.

6. From the 2000 ideas many ideas regarding special fields can be excerpted by computer. I am sending you herewith an excerpt dealing with the Future. In the copy I have marked the ideas which could be of interest to you. For example in idea 500 which lists all the World Commissions held over the years to help the United Nations, I suggest that you ask an official to make a list of all the specific recommendations made by them. The result would be a very remarkable document of interest to governments and to many people. With Dr. Karan Singh of India we have just created a World Commission on Global Consciousness and Spirituality to promote a much needed spiritual Renaissance. I am sending the other members an excerpt of 50 pages of ideas regarding religion and spirituality, similar to the one on the Future.

Last but not least, ask Mrs. Annan to keep the four volumes on her nighttable and to peruse them, drawing your attention to ideas she would like you to make yours. My life's work has been incredibly helped and enhanced by my alas deceased wife Margarita Gallo from Chile, the President of the UN Women's Guild, succeeded now by Mrs. Annan. I have written a novel in her memory First Lady of the World and donated a bust of Eleanor Roosevelt with whom she worked as a delegate of Chile to the Commission on Women's Rights. It was inaugurated last 10th of December at the University for Peace on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Her remains will be transferred next month to a hill, called Mt. Margarita, of the property Mt. Rasur I have acquired on a sacred mountain, adjacent to the UN University for Peace in Costa Rica. God has sent me since then another wonderful life companion who inspires me and helps me enormously. It is she who asked me to write 2000 ideas for the year 2000, which I did.

She joins me in wishing you and Mrs. Annan a great historical role in the fate of humanity and of planet Earth.
Yours in Peace,

Barbara and Robert Muller
H.E. Dr. Kofi Annan
Secretary General of the UN
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30 November 1999
His Excellency, The Honorable Theo-Ben Gurirab (UN Interne 1963)
President of the UN General Assembly
New York

Dear Mr. President,

From one former UN Interne (1948) to another, may I suggest that you make a recommendation in this General Assembly that the Secretary General of the UN should submit to the General Assembly 2000 his vision of the world and humanity in the next century.

The only great new idea in this century was the creation of the European Union when France and Germany became friends and the borders between 15 European countries were suppressed.

I suggest that in your General Assembly speech next year you propose a World Union or Alliance to eradicate poverty from this planet. No details needed in your speech.

What is needed most in the United Nations is the audacity of great, memorable ideas. So far not a single President of the General Assembly is remembered for a great, new idea or initiative.

As a famous French revolutionary proclaimed: De l'audace, de l'audace et toujours de l'audace. Audacity, audacity and still audacity. We have remembered that appeal when after World War II we got tired of the wars between France and Germany: three wars which made my grandparents change nationality five times without leaving their village. I am proud, as an Alsace-Lorrainer who suffered from this situation to be a member of the canonization committee of Robert Schuman, an Alsace-Lorrainer, who had the audacity to found the European Union. We will make him the first political saint of our time.

I pray God that He inspire you
to listen to my appeal,

Robert Muller
Chancellor Emeritus
Former UN Assistant Secretary General
"Si vis pacem, para pacem"
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20 December 1999

Mr. Ted Turner
President, CNN
Atlanta, GA 30348

Dearest Ted,

Herewith a status of nuclear weapons in the world. In your world appeal of 1 January, ask that the year 2000 should be celebrated and remembered in human history as the year of destruction of nuclear weapons. (See my Idea 2153)

I also pray that you will take the initiative to launch and chair a World Commission on the Media. See Idea 2157 which gives you an idea of the World Commissions and their usefulness. No rush, but please keep it in mind.

With all my love, admiration and heartiest wishes to you.
May 2000 be the greatest and happiest in your life,

Robert Muller