Hello Steemers!

As my first post, if you have the time, here's an essay I wrote about why it's time World Peace should be our next, international, moon-shot.

My passion is the idea that in 2018, World Peace is actually, finally possible.

In 1962, John F. Kennedy made a statement that gave America a mission: To go to the moon within a decade. America was challenged and Americans were aligned. Industry leaders, politicians, the public and the bankers rallied together behind a common, audacious goal, and in 1969 the world saw that anything is possible when we focus and work together.

As we enter 2018, climate change, deforestation, dying oceans, accumulating waste, decaying infrastructures, massive wealth accumulation, poverty and illiteracy provide challenges like we have never faced. Yet, we are finally equipped with the knowledge, the communications technology, the wealth, and the frameworks to not only deal with the issues of our world, but to truly evolve to a new epoch; one where all humans and our environment are treated with respect; an economy which accounts for more than just profits; and a planet that can be a safe and protected habitat for generations to come.

In the 60’s, there was a growing movement for Peace, which we now know was deliberately derailed by moneyed interests who believed there is more profit in the status quo than in progress. World Peace became an inaccessible utopia; a lofty ideal relegated to hippies and pacifists. Today, in modern culture, one can hardly mention World Peace without seeing eyes roll.

Like America’s pledge to land on the moon within a decade, “World Peace 2.0”, (or however we modernize the brand of peace) must be our common goal – a grand, global, audacious goal which encapsulates all our modern day struggles: Climate change, global inequity, weapons of mass destruction, war, poverty, racism, consumerism and terrorism.

True world peace – a world where no human dies for the advantage of another – is not a dream, but a mission that anyone who recognizes the connectedness of our finite planet can get behind.

Who wants to talk about it with me?!?