The polycrisis (climate; biodiversity; migration; access to water; pollution; antimicrobial resistance; inequality; global warming, ocean acidification and pollution; abuses of new technologies, including genetics, robotics, and artificial intelligence; zoonotic diseases; anarchic appropriation of space by private and military interests; nuclear threat, etc.) shows us, more than ever, that we are all brothers and sisters in blood and fragility on this increasingly small sphere.
Planet Republyk is a reflection on the planetary problems with which contemporary humanity is confronted and on the reasons for the inability of our political institutions to respond to them.
Planet Republyk is a proposal. A plan, in fact, to deal more effectively with global threats to the sustainability of humanity and ecosystems by establishing, by an unprecedented path, a truly supranational world parliament with direct representation outside the dysfunctional scheme typical of power struggles between nations.
By the establishment, therefore, of a cosmocracy, where, according to the universalist democratic ideal, each adult on the planet would be equivalent to one vote.
This idea in itself is not original.
The originality of Planet Republyk lies in the concrete advent of the cosmopolitan citizen thanks to an unprecedented method that avoids the trap of chauvinistic nationalism, a source of inertia, through supranational representation according to latitude.
If the idea of a world parliament has been perceived for centuries as a utopia, we believe that the explosion of the means of communication in the last decades, the numerous crises that humanity is going through at the moment, as well as the global geopolitical situation, are more conducive to this advent than at any other time in our common history.
Planet Republyk is a hope. It offers an anchoring possibility for the portion of humanity that already considers itself citizens of the earth. A hope, a new faith (from the Latin fides, “trust”) in a way.
Planet Republyk is a non-profit NGO whose mission is to promote the establishment of the most possible democratic, equitist, legitimate and sovereign world parliament in order to ensure the management of issues that affect all of humanity and the biosphere.
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