A Vision for The World, November 15^th,  2007, Cyprus, Jack

International Alert, a London-based conflict analyze group has identified 46 countries – home to 2,7 billion people – where – according to the group - the effect of climate change would create a high risk of violent conflicts.

The group has also identified another 56 countries with a risk of political instability for the same reason. The secretary of the group Dan Smith has said to Reuters, that we may expect some very serious conflicts clearly linked to climate change on the international scene by 2020.

Nobody knows if this is going to happen, but similar kind of recent analyzes have come to the same conclusions during the last years. So we – the six billions human beings are confronted with a serious problem.

When I work with coaching and someone present a problem we start to focus on what could be a  solution to the problem. Actually we start to make a goal – a picture of how we want it to be – and then we work on the issues we need to adjust to achieve the goal.

So how would it be to make such a vision on this simple important question: How would we like it to be on this planet! Looking into the problems can definitely motivate us to start a healing process for the planet and still the natural next step is to discuss: How would we like it to be!

Some people would say that:” people are thinking on themselves only.” And interesting enough a recent international survey in a lot of countries showed that about 60% of people in those countries were willing to pay from their salary to make progress in really cleaning up the environment.

Some people would say that this should be discussed in United Nations – and it is already discussed there. UN is the right place but UN needs a much broader approach and more support from the common man.

Some people will say that we can never agree to a common vision – Well! We have not done it so far – but I think that time could be right for this to start up.  

What we need is a campaign for a vision for the world. And we need well known and well respected world leaders to head this. We need less ego´s in political decisions and more looking into our hearts. And we need this before the climate based wars and conflicts really start up.