The Club of Rome and their mission to create a scientific dictatorship to prevent dangerous human activities.
In my last article, I wrote about the history and purpose of the Club of Rome. I mentioned that they are now one of the leading proponents of declaring a “planetary emergency”. This will most likely be the trigger for setting up a scientific dictatorship.
The idea of declaring a state of emergency was first proposed to the Club of Rome by British consultant and psychotherapist David Wasdell in 2005.
Wasdell, trained at the Tavistock Institute, wrote a paper called Global Warning which was circulated during the G8 summit at Gleneagles in 2005, with a mission to put the climate issue higher on the political agenda.
We have narrow remaining space to engage in global strategic planning and mobilization, followed by a maximum of fifty years to achieve the transition, to reduce resource use, to end unjust capital accumulation, and to stabilize and initiate long-term global population decline.
Wasdell was then invited by Club of Rome President Prince El Hassan bin Talal to speak at their annual conference in Norfolk, Virginia.
To achieve the desired effect, Wasdell advised them to:
Recognize that there is now a global emergency
Declare excess CO2 an eco-toxin [!] with a potentially catastrophic impact on the global biosphere
Develop and operationalize an urgent strategy to move our global society towards a zero or negative carbon economy as soon as possible
Develop and operationalize the most effective institutional instruments for transition management.
Wasdell, who became an adviser to Al Gore, also worked closely with the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and its director and Club of Rome member Hans Joachim Schellnhuber to develop the concept of tipping points in the climate system.[1]
This concept is incorporated into the Planetary Boundaries framework, which was developed under the leadership of Johan Rockström at the Center for Resilience in Stockholm and presented in the article “A Secure Operating Space for Humanity” in 2009. This was done in collaboration with Schellnhuber and PIK. [ 2]
Planetary boundaries are a framework for “describing the limits of the impact of human activities on the Earth system”. If left unchecked, it is said to trigger cascading tipping points that lead to “abrupt or irreversible large-scale environmental changes”. To prevent this possible scenario, top-down population control is considered necessary.
Rockström, a Swedish agronomist, was chosen in 2004 by the first chairman of the IPCC, Bert Bolin, to be the director of the Stockholm Institute for the Environment, and in 2007 he became the first director of the Stockholm Center for Resilience.
The latter institute, located at Stockholm University, was founded by the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research (MISTRA) with the task of developing strategies for the sustainable management and governance of ecological and social systems. Rockström later succeeded Hans Joachim Schellnhuber as joint director of PIK in 2018.
The Planetary Boundaries framework was presented by Rockström at the Global Assembly of the Club of Rome in Amsterdam in October 2009, in the presence of their royal patron, Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands and honorary member Mikhail Gorbachev. Sponsors were Philips, Royal Dutch Shell and KLM.[3]
The framework was included in the Bankroting Nature report of the Club of Rome, authored by Johan Rockström and former president of the Club of Rome Anders Wijkman, and became part of the Planetary Emergency Plan of the Club of Rome and PIK in 2019. A year later, their Planetary Emergency Partnership was launched with more than 300 partners worldwide.
These plans have now come true. A few weeks ago, the Climate Governance Commission released a statement at the High Level Week and Climate Week at the UN General Assembly.[4]
The commission, which includes the current president of the Club of Rome, Sandrine Dixson-Declève and Johan Rockström, paints a bleak picture of the future – unless we take decisive action.
The world is facing a deepening planetary crisis – and on a reckless path to catastrophic climate change – having already exceeded six of the nine scientifically identified planetary boundaries. Continued failure to address the root causes of this emergency – such as fossil fuel-based economies, wasteful/excessive consumption of resources and destruction of nature – will have further devastating effects for all of humanity, triggering potentially irreversible tipping points, with dangerous consequences for planetary stability, as social as well as ecological. A systematic approach to solving the climate crisis is now needed, ensuring reliable management of climate and planetary boundaries for the Earth as a whole.
Because of these perceived crises, the Commission is recommending “bold and concrete steps to catalyze change in global governance” in its forthcoming report Governing Our Planetary Emergency, which will be released in conjunction with the Dubai Climate Summit (COP28) in November 2023.
The Climate Governance Commission was established by the Swedish Foundation for Global Challenges at the UN75 Forum on Global Governance, 16-17 September 2020, and is chaired by former Irish President Mary Robinson of The Elders and Club of Madrid with Johan Rockström and former President of the General Assembly of the UN, María Fernanda Espinosa as co-chair. Supporters are the Madrid Club, the Stimson Center and the Rockefeller Foundation.
The former president of the Club of Rome who intervened to try to prevent the approval of my dissertation is a “contributing expert”.
They CGC state that “the global governance system is ill-equipped to deal with our planetary crisis, which now encompasses a ‘polycrisis’ including, for example, international conflict, financial instability, global inequality and pandemic risk and recovery.” The new term “polycrisis” was often used in discussions at the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2023.[5]
In order to deal with this “polycrisis”, the CGC calls for “competent” crisis leadership.
Empowered with new powers, current and new international governance institutions must exercise competent leadership in crisis situations, develop and implement emergency plans and a new generation of effective policies, while seeking a more equitable distribution of resources. Furthermore, scientific boundaries are non-negotiable, but must drive and fundamentally inform our collective actions and governance systems.
In order to trigger these “new powers and capabilities”, the Commission proposes that the UN General Assembly declare a planetary emergency at the Future Summit on September 22 and 23 next year.
The UN General Assembly should declare a global planetary emergency at the 2024 Future Summit, supported by similar declarations by UN agencies, regional bodies and national and local governments.
The Commission then proposes the elaboration of the UN Secretary-General’s proposed Emergencies Platform “to design and convene an interagency, intergovernmental Planetary Emergencies Platform to bring together the fragmented international institutional structures, and develop a Planetary Emergencies Plan for the immediate, coordinated action, with associated national emergency plans.”
Here I describe the Emergency Platform. This Platform, consisting of intergovernmental, state and non-state actors, would “plan and collaborate on urgent actions at all levels of governance, including a global decarbonisation package”.
The commission points out that exceeding the planetary boundaries must have consequences.
Global security norms should be expanded to reflect the serious implications of crossing climate/planetary boundaries, including UN Security Council practices to better reflect the climate policy challenges and priorities of the Global South and all nations.
They therefore call for “courageous ‘top-down’ leadership at all levels of government, combined with generalized pressure and ‘bottom-up’ citizen engagement, to catalyze fundamental transformations.”
Some of the other proposals in the statement include:
Global Environment Agency
International Court for the Environment
Institutional reform of the global financial system
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Global Commons Alliance.
In the background, another closely related initiative was developed to implement the prescribed transformation. In 2019, the Global Commons Alliance launched Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors in Singapore with the mission to “mobilize citizens, businesses, cities and countries to accelerate system change and become better stewards of the global good”.[6 ]
Their strategic priorities are to change minds, actions and systems to preserve the global good and “regain planetary stability”. They are ready to act quickly when a state of emergency is declared.
By 2025, the true magnitude of the multiple transformations we need to preserve the global good will be well understood. Key actors will know what they need to do, where things are most urgent, and will take action that fosters and sustains transformational change to protect the global good.
Their philosophy is based on Rockström’s Planetary Boundaries Framework.
More than 70 partners include the Club of Rome, PIK, WEF and WRI, with the support of the “Investor Collaborative” consisting of the Swiss MAVA Foundation, the Dutch Porticus Foundation and the United Nations Global Environment Facility, among others.
Rockström is a member of the board of directors of the Global Commons Alliance and leads the “Alliance Component” Earth Commission with the mission of defining “safe and just borders for people and the planet”.
This is a chart from my book The Digital World Brain (translated into English), which illustrates their formula for “system transformation”.
That is a recipe for a scientific dictatorship. To quote the “Tenth Commandment” on the now demolished Georgia Guidestones:
Don’t be a cancer on Earth – Leave room for nature – Leave room for nature.
It also reminds me of a document from the World Order Secretariat that George Hunt revealed during the “UNA Conference on Environment and Development to Provide Broad Public Debate and Support for the United Nations Earth Summit” in Des Moines, September 22, 1991.[7 ]
The UN Security Council, led by the Anglo-Saxon Great Powers, will decide by decree that in the future the Security Council will inform all nations that its right to population has ceased, that all nations have quotas to REDUCE on an annual basis, which will be enforced by the Security Council by selective or total embargo on credit, trade items including food and medicine, or by military force, when necessary.
This has now been renamed as reducing your carbon footprint.
I will cover the Global Commons Alliance in more detail in the next article. I also mention their influence in my presentation “Shaping the Future Agenda – The Brain of the Digital World” from Stavanger.
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Notes
[1] www.apollo-gaia.org/A-GProjectDevelopment.pdf
[2] Rockström, J., Steffen, W., Noone, K. et al. A safe operating space for humanity. Nature 461, 472-475 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1038/461472a
[3] www.slideshare.net/Eurotopia/assembly-programme
[4] globalgovernanceforum.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Governing-our-Planetary-Emergency-CGC-Statement-UNGA-v2.pdf
[5] www.weforum.org/agenda/2023/01/polycrisis-global-risks-report-cost-of-living/
[6] globalcommonsalliance.org/about/
[7] archive.org/details/GeorgeHuntUncedEarthSummit1992cobdenClubsPapersaldousHuxleythe_125/2-1-unUncedEarthSummit1992ByGeorgeHunt..mp4
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