“Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar,” every “supreme leader,” every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there–on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

“The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

“Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

“The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

“It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known.”

— Carl Sagan,  Pale Blue Dot , 1994

 

Warmly,

Jonathan Granoff President, Global Security Institute Senior Advisor and Special Representative to the UN for the Permanent Secretariat of the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates

April 21-22: Earth Day Events

A very special event on Global Leadership for Sustainable Planet Tuesday, April 21, 2020 8:00am PDT, 11:00am EDT

The rapid spread of COVID-19 revealed humanity’s vulnerable state of asymmetric shocks, lack of preparedness for change and the need for a new social, economic and political paradigm. The pandemic has induced a planetary momentum for change and requires coordinated global action now. Leadership is needed at all levels to transform the growing disunity into global solidarity based on complementary top-down and bottom-up initiatives. Eminent leaders of international organizations and initiatives partnering with the World Academy of Art and Science will discuss the psycho-social, cultural, economic and political impact of the pandemic that made the world stop but gave the planet a moment to breathe and the new leadership needed to take us to the new paradigm of human development aligned with natural laws and planetary boundaries.

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April 21, 11am – 2:30pm EDT Move the Nuclear Weapons Money International Webinar, Tuesday April 21, 2020

Move the Nuclear Weapons (and fossil fuel) Money: Cutting nuclear weapons budgets. Ending investments in nuclear weapons & fossil fuels. Reallocating these to public health, climate protection and sustainable development. Held in conjunction with Earth Day 2020 the Global Days of Action on Military Spending, April 10 – May 5, 2020

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13th ANNUAL April 22, 6 – 9:30 pm EDT: World Peace Earth Day Celebration Celebrating our Planet, Healing Our Heart Watch LIVE or the Recording HERE: https://www.facebook.com/thewecampaign https://www.facebook.com/compassiongames Like these pages to get notified for the Event and please share! Featuring: HOST/MC Mitchell Rabin: International speaker, Holistic Coach and Host of A Better World Radio & TV  https://abetterworld.tv Rick Ulfik: Founder of We, The World, the WE Campaign, Co-Creator of 11 Days of Global Unity,  https://WE.net Jonathan Granoff: President of the Global Security Institute, Attorney, Author, and Advocate for the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons Michael Fitzpatrick: World-renowned Cello Soloist Guy R. McPherson: American scientist, professor emeritus at the University of Arizona Elly Lessin: Long time Environmental Advocate and others   Mr. Granoff will speak at 7:20 pm edt

April 22, 1pm EDT – 11pm EDT: Unify, Earth X and National Geographic Celebration of Earth Day.   Join us April 22nd, 2020 — 1am EDT – 11pm EDT for this Global Live Event!Video: https://www.facebook.com/unify/videos/1101365756898233/     Art, Inspiration, Leadership, Ceremony, Meditation, and Prayer   Global Ceremony for Peace On Earth – Reunion of the Eagle, Condor and Quetzal featuring prayers from indigenous elders: 7pm EDT   Jonathan Granoff Earth’s Call: Hearts Without Borders 9:30 PM (EDT)    Global Synchronized Meditation 10 pm (EDT)   Full Program: Schedule (all times EDT):   1:00 UNIFY Official Intro 1:30 Unify Humanity 2:00 Planetary Film Screening 2:30 Earth X + National Geographic 4:00 Unified Planet/Lunch Portal 5:00 Bella Gaia + NASA 5:30 New Earth Manifesto Panel 6:45 Creator Series – Visionary Art Jam 7:00 Global Ceremony for Peace On Earth [intertribal] 9:30 Earth’s Call: Hearts Without Borders 10:00 Global Synchronized Meditation

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