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Helping the visually impaired to help themselves. This group is a testament to the great effort that the visually impaired members of care2 have made to solve the problem of reading small fonts. Anything else of interest to the V.I. also.
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Members: 19
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Visibility: open
Membership: open
Group Email: phontphanatics@groups.care2.com
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OzPolitic
Boycotts,
Science,
Electoral Reform,
Australia,
International Politics,
The Feral Peril,
Green Tax Shift,
Ethics in Progressivism,
The Nuclear Option?,
Fishing,
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| Focus: | Government |
| Action Request: | Think About |
| Location: | United States |
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We need some form of global government to deal with the following issues:
- fishing, boat traffic and piracy in international waters
- extraction of fresh water from rivers that cross national boundaries
- cross-border pollution, especially air pollution
- peacekeeping
- control of multinational companies, especially in poor nations that do not have an adequate government to prevent exploitation of citizens
- etc (please add to this list)
Such a government will probably arise out of the UN. I imagine a senate style government with representatives from each country, where the voting power held by each member is proportional to the number of people they represent - provided there is a functioning democratic structure that put them in place.
Eventually we could move on to a system with a number of members from each of the larger countries (roughly proportional to population) and a minimum of one member from smaller countries. This would require that the members from larger countries be directly elected rather than appointed by their respective national government.
Currently there is nothing to stop large businesses going into third world countries, extracting resources and not paying a fair amount to the citizens of that country, who ultimately own the resource. All they have to do is pay (bribe) the local government or militia enough.
Discussion: http://www.care2.com/c2c/groups/disc.html?gpp=1142&pst=349023
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