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Glen T. Martin's 2021 book:
The Earth Constitution Solution: Design for a Living Planet
launched on July 1, 2021
Can be ordered at: https://www.amazon.com/Earth-Constitution-Solution-Design-Living/dp/1937465284/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=glen+martin&qid=1623843747&s=books&sr=1-4
Unite as one planet or perish. This is the choice humanity faces as we witness unprecedented crises: ecosystem collapse, wildlife extinction, global pandemics, terrorism, endless war, and economic inequality. Creativity can overcome crises, but what will it take to transform our world into one where peace, justice, and sustainability are planetary principles?
With a comprehensive design for our living planet, The Earth Constitution Solution confronts our perilous future head-on. It shows the absurdity of the nation-state system, which gives Brazil the "right" to destroy the Amazon Forest – the lungs of Earth. It exposes the fundamental flaws and corruption of the New World Order and Great Reset proposed by the World Economic Forum – fractured globalization plans that would divide us and exploit our precious planet. And it reveals why the Earth Federation Movement is growing, as people realize that global problems can only be solved as a united planet.
The Earth Constitution is a unifying document with a practical plan for federating Earth that can be studied and implemented by world citizens. The Earth Constitution saves what works at the United Nations and integrates it into a framework that replaces our fragmented system with a holistic design founded on global democracy. The result is a realistic and inclusive roadmap that charts a glorious future for our living planet.
"The achievement of the Earth Constitution Solution would mark a milestone in humankind's evolution into a true planetary species."
⸺ Ervin Laszlo, Founder Club of Rome, Club of Budapest, the Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research,, and author of more than 100 books.
"The Earth Constitution Solution is a guide for current and future action, and Glen Martin outlines the world structures needed to ensure the rights and common good of all humanity. This book is a vital presentation of the avenues to transcend the current geopolitical, conflictual structures toward a world society in which individuals can develop their full potential."
~ Rene Wadlow, President of the Association of World Citizens and Professor Emeritus at Graduate Institute of Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland
"Martin's Design for a Living Planet is an amazing piece of work – an irrefutable argument for an Earth Constitution that should be compulsory reading for all the presidents and prime ministers of the world – preferably as a preparation for a new international convention on a world constitution to replace the obsolete U.N. Charter. Such a convention should be held before the world's injustices, inequalities, nationalisms, religions and climate change all combine to create the conditions that trigger the next world war."
~ Ian Hackett, Co-Founder of the World Federalist Party, former Chair of the UK Association of World Federalists, Director of the One World Trust, and Head of the International School of London
"The concept of a world organization to ensure peace and welfare is an ancient one. The Upanishads speak of the human race as a family and see a spark of divinity in every human being … [yet] nationalism turns out to be a much more powerful and potent emotion than universalism. … Martin has written a book entitled Earth Constitution Solution in which he has outlined a concrete proposal for achieving this great ideal. My good wishes are with Martin and other friends who are committed to an idea whose time is bound to come sooner or later."
~ D. Karan Singh Ji, Associate of the World Constitution and Parliament Association, former Cabinet Member and longest serving Representative in the Raj Sabba (Upper House of the Parliament of India)
"Design for a Living Planet is an essential guidebook for everyone seeking to transcend tribalism and unite humanity through democratic world federation. The world administration advocated by this book and the Earth Constitution is the most complete depiction of what united humanity could look like."
~ Eston McKeague, President of the Young World Federalists
"Design for a Living Planet has arrived just when our world needs it the most. Every page of this extremely informative, profound and illuminating book offers us seminal wisdom that will guide our generation into a new Age of Holism. Ratifying the Earth Constitution will help lead the way into this magnificent new era for our beloved Planet Earth, all beings in our vast ecosystem and future generations that deserve a beautiful, thriving, and life-affirming home."
~ Diane Williams, Founder of The Source of Synergy Foundation and the U.N. NGO Committee on Spirituality, Values, and Global Concerns (NY), and co-author of Our Moment of Choice
"Earth is a living planet. At the current rate of destruction, we will soon minimize the life cycle of Earth and its people. Hence, Design for a Living Planet can be taken as a hub for the wheel of holistic life. The Earth Constitution has been mooted by Dr. Martin; it is now for us to implement it without any apprehension, whatsoever. Moreover, the War Pentagon should mandatorily be replaced with the Peace Pentagon."
~ Colonel Tejendra Pal Tyagi, Veer Chakra, Executive President of the World Constitution and Parliament Association in India, and National President of Rashtriya Sainik Sanstha in India (National Vanguard of ex-servicemen and patriotic citizens)
"The Earth Constitution Solution has the potential to become a classic, as it proclaims the 'Big Idea' using academic theory and practice at the highest level of excellence and thoroughness. In arguing for the Earth Constitution, Professor Martin's logic rivals the famous Federalist Papers, drafted to gain support for the U.S. Constitution. There's plenty here for intellectuals, the average citizen, save-the-world activists, and politicians from around the world."
~ Roger Kotila, Ph.D., President of the Democratic World Federalists, Board Member at the Center for U.N. Constitutional Research (CUNCR Brussels), and Editor of Earth Federation News & Views
"La Constitución para la Federación de la Tierra es un instrumento concreto para acercarse a una utopía alcanzable, y Design for a Living Planet es una guía necesaria para cualquiera que crea que hay un hermoso futuro para la humanidad. Para aquellos apasionados por la paz mundial, la justicia, la equidad planetaria y la sostenibilidad ambiental, el Dr. Martin presenta una solución holística en un lenguaje accesible para todos."
~ Leopoldo A. Cook, Board Member of the Earth Constitution Institute and Vice President of the World Constitution and Parliament Association in Latin America and the Caribbean
"Many great thinkers throughout history have argued that only a democratically elected global government – complete with a Constitution, Bill of Rights, and the other structures necessary to make it effective – can solve humanity's most pressing problems and ensure global peace and prosperity. Glen T. Martin is a superb spokesperson for these ideas, and their philosophical, scientific and moral foundation."
~ Bob Flax, Ph.D., Executive Director of Citizens for Global Solutions
and professor of Transformative Social Change at Saybrook University
"Dr. Martin conveys a great message: If thinkers, philosophers, and activists work with sincerity, honesty, commitment, and LOVE for all humanity, a new human civilization is possible. The Earth Constitution should be studied by universities around the world so that coming generations will be empowered to build a cooperative economy and justice-centered, global political system."
~ E. P. Menon, Board Member of the Earth Constitution Institute, global peace activist, and author of Foot Prints on Friendly Roads, which chronicles his 8,000 mile "peace walk" around the world
"Glen Martin delivers practical, intelligent, and comprehensive arguments for the adoption of the Earth Constitution. HisDesign for a Living Planet deserves to be number one on the reading list of anyone concerned with the freedom and well-being of humanity."
~ Eugenia Almand, Secretary General of the World Constitution and Parliament Association
"Carl Jung said the way to wholeness is comprised of inevitable detours and even wrong turnings but a snake-like path that ultimately unites opposites. I think the journey to an Earth Constitution will be much the same. Let the conversation begin!"
~ Kurt Johnson, Ph.D., Founder of the Interspiritual Network, co-host of The Convergence series on Voice America, and author of Fine Lines, The Coming Interspiritual Age, and Our Moment of Choice
"Glen Martin's The Earth Constitution Solution: Design for a Living Planet is a hopeful vision that is a deeply inspiring, precise roadmap for a better future. This new work by Martin is an excellent must-read for anyone who cares about the future of our planet."
~ H.E. Rev. Patrick McCollum, World peace and planetary sustainability activist and Founder of the McCollum Foundation for Peace
"Martin's Design for a Living Planet is a compendium of the most advanced thinking concerning sustainable economics, ecological sanity, a holistic world-view, and 'planetary consciousness.' As human beings we must become humane beings, motivated by compassion and imagination as well as by reason. … [T]he legal and humane wisdom of the Earth Constitution can lead us to a world without war, where cultures can flourish and nations continue, but in which sovereignty is exchanged for a transnational security that preserves the peace, prosperity, and environmental health of all life-forms on Earth."
~ Richard D. Sharp, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus in Literature at
Catholic University and Fulbright Fellow to India
"The Earth Constitution – like the Magna Carta, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights – provides a framework for peaceful and just human interaction. Transcending those historic legal documents, the Earth Constitution explains how we, as world citizens, can sustainably interact with Earth and begin to govern our world as one human family. In his latest book, Dr. Martin presents clear and compelling arguments for humanity to immediately engage this paradigm shift in law and politics.
~ David Gallup, Esq., President of World Service Authority and Convener of the World Court of Human Rights Coalition
FOREWORD by Ellen H. Brown, J.D.
Cosmic Evolution and Living Design
Paradigm Shift: From Fragmentation to Holism
Political Collapse: The Advent of Evolutionary Social Science
3.1 The Twisted Logic of the Nation-State System
3.2 The Current World System
3.3 Truth, Love, and Our Common Humanity
3.4 Social Holism: Planetary Democracy and Cooperative Economics
Climate Collapse: The Need for Transformational Ecology
4.1 Computer Modeling of Possible Futures
4.2 Looking into the Abyss
4.3 The Role of Resistance and Struggle
4.4 Is Civilization Beginning to Falter?
4.5 The Stark Realities of Climate Change
4.6 The Coming Uninhabitable Earth
4.7 A Common Consensus?
Sustainable Economics: The Need for Transformative Business Models
5.1 Growth Fetish vs. the Reality of a Finite Planet
5.2 Can Economics Put People and Planet First?
5.3 Calculating the Value of Human Life
5.4 Will the Third Industrial Revolution Abolish Capitalism?
5.5 A Green New Deal for All
5.6 Capitalism vs. the Environment
5.7 What Should Be Included in a Cost-Benefit Analysis?
5.8 Economics and Conscious Evolution
The U.N. Sustainable Development Goals: Trapped in a Modernist Ideology
6.1 The Colonizing of Our Consciousness
6.2 Everyone Pretends to See the Emperor's New Clothes
6.3 Context for the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals
6.4 The Earth Constitution Solution
6.5 Getting Serious About Sustainability
Design Features of the Earth Constitution
7.1 The Earth Constitution as Sustainable Planetary Design
7.2 Vision Behind the Earth Constitution as a Whole
7.3 Drafting Process for the Earth Constitution
7.4 Design Features of the Earth Constitution for Establishing a Sustainable Future
7.4.1 A Founded World Society
7.4.2 A Holistic World System
7.4 3 Focus on Global Problems and Crises Beyond the Scope of Nation-States
7.4.4 Explicit Focus on Sustainability
7.4.5 Focus on Integrating the Diversity of Humanity
7.4.6 Recognizes the People of Earth as Sovereign
7.4.7 Democratic, Cooperative, and Collaborative Structure
7.4.8 Establishes Planetary Public Banking
7.4.9 Establishes Debt-Free Money Creation
7.4.10 A Networked System to Monitor Planetary Health
7.4.11 Bills of Rights with Environmental Sustainability Rights
7.4.12 Design to Progressively Minimize Levels of Conflict
7.4.13 A Living Document Mandating Periodic Reexamination and Modification
7.4.14 The "Council of Elders"
7.4.15 Simple Ratification Process
7.4.16 Earth Federation Already Has Begun!
7.4.17 Current Projects under Authority of Article 19
8.1 Five Dimensions of Sustainability
8.2 The United Nations AND the Earth Constitution?
8.3 The Gaia Principle and the Golden Rule
8.4 Practical Utopia as Eminently Practical
Earth Constitution Mandala
Pledge of Allegiance to the Earth Constitution
Constitution for the Federation of Earth
Acclaim for The Earth Constitution Solution: Design for a Living Planet
"The achievement of Glen Martin's Earth Constitution Solution would mark a milestone in humankind's evolution into a true planetary species."
~ Ervin Laszlo, Nobel Peace Prize Nominee, and Founder of the Club of Budapest and Laszlo Institute of New Paradigm Research
"The Earth Constitution Solution is a deep dive into environmental design … covering new findings … and addressing more revolutionary ideas. The author makes it clear a big change is taking place, and for those interested, this book has the answers."
~ Manhattan Book Review
"The Earth Constitution Solution is a comprehensive and irrefutable argument for an Earth Constitution that should be compulsory reading for all the presidents and prime ministers of the world – preferably as a preparation for a new international convention on a world constitution to replace the obsolete U.N. Charter. Such a convention should be held before the world's injustices, inequalities, nationalisms, religions and climate change all combine to create the conditions that trigger the next world war."
~ Ian Hackett, Co-Founder of the World Federalist Party and former Chair of the UK Association of World Federalists
"The Earth Constitution Solution is an essential guidebook for everyone seeking to transcend tribalism and unite humanity through democratic world federation. The world administration advocated by this book and the Earth Constitution is the most complete depiction of what united humanity could look like.
"The Earth Constitution Solution has arrived just when our world needs it the most. Every page of this extremely informative, profound and illuminating book offers us seminal wisdom that will guide our generation into a new Age of Holism. Ratifying the Earth Constitution will help lead the way into this magnificent new era for our beloved Planet Earth, all beings in our vast ecosystem and future generations that deserve a beautiful, thriving, and life-affirming home."
~ Diane Williams, Founder of The Source of Synergy Foundation and the U.N. NGO Committee on Spirituality, Values, and Global Concerns (NY)
"The Earth Constitution Solution has the potential to become a classic, as it proclaims the 'Big Idea' using academic theory and practice at the highest level of excellence and thoroughness. In arguing for the Earth Constitution, Professor Martin's logic rivals the famous Federalist Papers, drafted to gain support for the U.S. Constitution."
~ Roger Kotila, Ph.D., President of the Democratic World Federalists, Board Member at the Center for U.N. Constitutional Research, and Editor of Earth Federation News & Views
"The Earth Constitution Solution is an important contribution to the most critical story of our time, the movement toward genuine Earth Unity."
~ Ben Bowler, Executive Director of Unity Earth
"The Earth Constitution – like the Magna Carta, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights – provides a framework for peaceful and just human interaction. Transcending those historic legal documents, the Earth Constitution explains how we, as world citizens, can sustainably interact with the Earth and begin to govern our world as one human family.
"Earth is a living planet. At the current rate of destruction, we will soon minimize the life cycle of Earth and its people. Hence, The Earth Constitution Solution can be taken as a hub for the wheel of holistic life. The Earth Constitution has been mooted by Dr. Martin; it is now for us to implement it without any apprehension, whatsoever. Moreover, the War Pentagon should mandatorily be replaced with the Peace Pentagon."
Back Cover of The Earth Constitution Solution:
Global Democracy and Human Self-Transcendence: The Power of the Future for Planetary Transformation
by Glen T. Martin
Some Reader's Remarks
Dr. Patricia Murphy, Philosophy, St. Joseph's University, Director, International Philosophers for Peace (IPPNO):
The comprehensive quality, and the depth of Glen Martin's most recent work, Global Democracy and Human Self-Transcendence, is breathtaking…. New readers, whether drawn to this work through an interest in the environment, politics, legal studies, philosophy or spirituality, will be educated by the breadth of the author's understanding of the interdependency of these fields… Decades of experience, reflection and philosophical practice can be discerned within this bellwether call for a new world order governed by an inclusive and egalitarian World Parliament, which Martin proposes as both necessary and sufficient for planetary sustainability, peace and human flourishing.
—Eugenia Almand, JD, Executive Director, Institute on World Problems:
Enlightening and Essential Reading: Following the whole systems sciences and philosophy of the twentieth century, Dr. Glen Martin takes the reader step-by-step from the current world disorder to the inexorable necessity of the ordinary, everyday human being to engage in the setting of an explicit world constitutional system. He shows the multiple ways that this practical solution to our lethal problems is embedded within human temporality with its vision of a future transcending the past. He shows that the social contract best suited for human survival and flourishing has already been created—the Constitution for the Federation of Earth. This book is enlightening and essential reading!
—Swami Agnivesh, author Applied Spirituality: A Spiritual Vision for the Dialogue of Religions:
Dr. Glen T. Martin clearly understands that spirituality integrates the salvation of the individual with the transformation of society. With great insight into the role of human temporality in the processes of spiritual growth and self-transcendence, he shows that the future could be truly different from the past, both for individuals and for humanity.
—Dr. Richard Perkins, Philosophy, Canesius College:
In Global Democracy and Human Self-Transcendence, Martin argues that the key to unlocking a solution lies in human temporality and in the recognition, as Teilhard de Chardin puts it, that "man is the leading shoot of evolution." He calls upon his readers to become the prophets of transformation who guide mankind toward increasingly global awareness and makes the case that this awareness entails an all-encompassing new world order instituted under the Constitution for the Federation of Earth….
Although we are ontologically disposed to transcendence, we need to choose wisely. Making the right choice prepares the way to peace, unity, justice, and sustainability—amounting, in his estimation, to an eminently practical utopia. Martin's argument, it seems to me, is a very persuasive one, and in prosecuting his case he displays prodigious learning, penetrating analysis, and intense passion.
—Rev. Laura M. George, J.D., Executive Director of The Oracle Institute and award-winning author of The Truth: About the Five Primary Religions, The Love: Of the Fifth Spiritual Paradigm, and The Light: And the New Human:
Global Democracy and Human Self-Transcendence. As a member of the global community, I applaud Dr. Martin's treatise on how we may achieve global unity and a federated Earth. His vision – the vision embodied in The Earth Constitution – is the only rational and compassionate path forward. As Dr. Martin explains, most of humanity is ready for this evolutionary model of world government. Collectively, we have reached a state of world-centric maturity to permit such a leap into the future. Let us embrace this holistic horizon! And let us utilize the map provided by The Earth Constitution to manifest the utopian goal of global social democracy.
—Dr. Ronald J. Glossop, Philosophy, Southern Illinois University- Edwardsville Author of the well-known books, Confronting War, and World Federation?
Global Democracy and Human Self-Transcendence addresses what Professor Glen Martin views as humanity's 21st-century critical choice between its continued existence or the end of all life on planet Earth. He says our challenge is to "overcome the evils of fragmentation, hatred, fear, greed, and lust for power." We must use our creative intelligence and inherent capacity for self-transcendence…. We need to move beyond "the pseudo-realities of race, nation, ideology, dogmatic religion, property or other forms of 'ego-identities," personal or collective, that define who we are through the denial of others" to "a pacified and harmonious global civilization" with a genuinely democratic world government based on sovereignty for all who live on Earth.
—Tay Keong Tan, Ph.D. Professor Political Science, Director of International Studies and Leadership Studies, Radford University:
Global Democracy and Human Self-Transcendence reveals Glen T. Martin as consummate philosopher on a life-long mission for world peace and democracy. He writes with the discipline of an entrepreneur and the zeal of a missionary.
—Dr. Roger Kotila, Psychologist, President, Democratic World Federalists (DWF):
The book includes a sustained critique that challenges our institutional status quo, which continues "to colonize science in the service of perpetual wars," and "to colonize culture in the service of fear, hate, and propaganda." Nietzsche wrote that "God is dead." Martin notes that it is rather we who are dead…"we are choosing death rather than life…."
The book shows in what ways the system of militarized sovereign states and global capitalism are hopelessly fragmented and destructive. These institutions are entirely out of sync with the new holism discovered by all 20th century sciences. If we want a peaceful, sustainable future on this planet, Martin shows, we need to affirm an institutional holism that makes this possible…. This book provides a new and powerful insight into the hope for a better future that permeates our human condition.
—Upendra Baxi, Ph.D., Prof. of Law Emeritus, University of Warwick & Delhi, India:
This a powerfully summoning book that brings in the good news that we may still overcome. It brings forth a new politics of hope, pitted against the poetics of despair. Here is a new vision of the world where distress of the Anthropocene is writ large and global impoverishment of politics is legible to all. Professor Glen T. Martin summons us to think that 'choosing life' is still doable in the face of extinction posed by the advancing Anthropocene…. I hope that the reader of this work will want to grasp the overall significance of the vision here propounded. The present, certainly, is a time of dystopias, but we need a resurgence of the utopic element of thought and feeling.
One World Renaissance: Holistic Planetary Transformation through a Global Social Contract
"I congratulate Dr. Glen Martin for his learned, practical, and inspired effort on behalf of world unity."
—The Honorable A. P. Misra, retired Justice of the Supreme Court of India
"This book casts an important light on the possibility for building world government as an evolutionary process. . . The book is visionary and appears at a time when the speed of change and the perceived failings of current institutions call out for just such a vision."
—Marc Pilisuk, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus, Saybrook University; principal author, The Hidden Structure of Violence: Who Benefits from Global Violence and War
"One World Renaissance is incredibly rich with insights, wisdom, and scholarship. All of humanity should be reading this remarkable book, which offers profound solutions to our global predicament."
—Barbara Marx Hubbard, renowned futurist and author of Conscious Evolution
"Dr. Glen Martin is a global visionary who combines brilliance, heart and integrity. He's a renowned activist for world democracy who clearly outlines the practical infrastructures needed to create a just and sustainable world. It is my hope that people everywhere will listen to Glen's messages so that together we can go beyond the current global crises to a new level of human evolution."
—Philip M. Hellmich, Director of Peace, The Shift Network; author of God and Conflict
"Dr. Glen Martin's realistic narrative concerning the present world predicament must be seriously considered by all right-thinking people on earth."
—E. P. Menon, author, global activist, and founder of the India Development Foundation
"This book by the well-known philosopher and humanist Dr. Glen Martin is extremely important as it concerns the most critical issues of our time – including the question of the very survival of humankind. It gives us hope that we won't finally lose control over events in our troubled world."
—Alexander N. Chumakov, Chair of Philosophy Department of Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation, First Vice-President of the Russian Philosophical Society
"A must read for all intellectuals, activists, and revolutionaries frustrated and shaken by perpetual war and chaos. Using the tools of philosophical analysis, Professor Martin helps us understand why the United Nations and the peace movement have been unsuccessful, and introduces the Earth Constitution as the powerful new social contract necessary to end global chaos and perpetual war."
—Roger Kotila, PhD., Senior Fellow, Institute on World Problems, USA Vice President, World Constitution and Parliament Association
"Drawing support from leading philosophers and scientists, Dr. Martin proves that a federated Earth is the wisest and only practical answer to our global problems."
—Rev. Laura M. George, J.D., Executive Director of the Oracle Institute
"One World Renaissance is a work suited to the thoughtful reader looking for a philosophical study of a
unifying theory of human culture. . . Martin's ambitious and well-researched work calls
for the recognition of a new paradigm of interconnectedness in order to face global crises."
—Foreword Reviews
"A philosophical study of a unifying theory of human culture . . . [an] ambitious and well-researched work."