Pictured is the President of Senegal, Bassirou Diomaye Faye. I obtained the picture from an article in The New York Times. In its hard-copy version, The Times' news story had the following title: "Africa's Youngest Elected Leader Wants 'a Reform of the World System.'"
If you click that link, just provided, and go online, the headline is somewhat different: "Africa’s Youngest Elected Leader Wants a New World Order."
I was struck by the headline, when I first read the article in the hard-copy version. It does seem to me that we need a new "World System." I was even more taken by the online version of the headline, in which Faye urges a "New World Order," or a "New Order in the World." Americans, of course, are familiar with this phrase (or, at least, they should be). Below is the Great Seal of the United States of America. You can see this picture on our dollar bill:
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"Novus Ordo Seclorum" means, precisely, a "New Order In The World." Citizens of the United States of America have believed in a "New World Order" from the very beginning. In fact, the Founding Fathers believed that the American Revolution was, truly, the first step towards such a goal.
Today, I am moved by the words of Bassirou Diomaye Faye (and those who founded a new nation, here on the North American continent). We need a new "System," a system that reorders relationships for the entire world.
- Together, we must mobilize ourselves - all the peoples of the world - to eliminate the combusion of fossil fuels, and seek other ways to reverse the global warming that is now putting the natural environment at risk, worldwide. We must mitigate the inescapable impacts of global warming to the greatest degree we can.
- Together, we must find effective ways to "share the wealth of this world," to make sure that everyone in the entire world will have a safe and secure home to stay in, clean water to drink, good and sufficient food to eat, and productive work to do.
- Together, we must eliminate the wars (and the armies, and the weaponry, including nuclear weapons) that endanger all of humanity.
This is only a very "partial list." What about our oceans? What about education? What about pollution? What about every part of our natural environment, threatened by human actions?
"Revolutionary" changes occur only after the minds of people have been transformed. My thanks to Bassirou Diomaye Faye, and to young people all around the world, for working to help transform our minds - for bringing to everyone's attention what we must not forget: we are "in this world together," all of us who live on this glorious planet Earth, and we must work together to reform the "World System" to achieve what I have listed out above, and more.
Young people, like Faye, are speaking out everywhere, and I am reminded of one of my favorite lines, from Ripple, a song I also wrote about on this blog:
You who choose to lead must follow
We, here in the United States, have chosen to "lead" - and you well know, I am sure, our national claim that "America leads the world." To "lead," we must learn to "follow." We must join together with others in common cause - and learn from them!
My thanks to Bassirou Diomaye Faye for his words of truth! I am hopeful, indeed, that we will all be able to learn from him!
Democrat liberals read the article closely, THIS IS WHY YOU LOST. People don't want a Socialist, Marxist, Communist society and man made climate change is JUST an attempt to extort money from the rich countries. P.S. China and India don't buy into this CRAP.
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