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Leonard Angel
Director, Institute
for Ethics and Global Justice (Winter 2012 Contact Person)
Philosophy & Humanities Faculty, Douglas College
(Ethics; Democracy; Sustainability; Global Justice Policies; Renewable
Planet Authority; Secular Wisdom Institutes Global Parliamentary
Assembly)
Interests :
Renewable Planet Authority:
Since 1980 the human community been measurably over-using the renewable
resource base of the earth. (By 2007 it is at about 125% by the global hectare
measure.) Because the over-use is international, there needs to be an international
authority to reduce human use of the resources of the planet to under 100% of
the resource base. The development of such an international authority is the
project to be advanced.
Secular Wisdom Institutes:
The pioneering of methods and implementation of such methods for developing
secular wisdom institutes.
Global Parliamentary Assembly:
There are two main kinds of democratic deficit: despotism, and the lack of a
suitable structure for input. There are many despotic states; but all citizens
in the world face the second deficit, since at the moment there is no
democratic representation of citizens around the world. The theory and practice
behind creating a global parliamentary assembly needs to be developed.
Upcoming Events(or Recent):
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Campaign for the United Nations Parliamentary Assembly (Ongoing: 2007 April to . . .)
Leonard's Comment on endorsing the UNPA
People all around the world are working (officially, only since the end of
April beginning of May 2007) for global citizen's voices in what would/will be
called the United Nations Parliamentary Assembly. This would/will be one of the
most important transformations the world has seen--a voice for each person in
the world through people who are not controlled by any nation-state government.
The plan is open to each citizen of the world to endorse. Please check it out,
and, if you're agreeable to it, as I expect you will be, endorse it. Then you
can say to your children/grandchildren/friends/friends' children or
grandchildren etc in the many decades to come: "I supported its development
when it was still a dream." It's being supported by Boutros Boutros-Ghali
(former Secretary-General of the UN), Vaclav Havel (former President of
Czechoslovakia), hundreds of parliamentarians around the world, etc. It's still
a dream, but it's a vivid one, acted on by many Nobel Prize winners, etc etc.
To check it out, go to UNPA Campaign.org or UNPA Campaign.ca or KDUN, and, if you need questions answered, find the FAQ (November 2006, under documents, under old documents, EN (for English)) for frequently asked questions. Once your questions are satisfactorily answered, go back to the main page and find the appeal sheet to sign up.
Previous Events:
Can We Save Planet Earth? Dr.
Leonard Angel,
Philosophy Dept., Douglas College
On the personal and the political: 3 R's and a new global institution.
Thursday, March 18, 2010 at 7:30 pm
Hewett Centre, Unitarian Church,
949 W.49th Ave. at Oak St., Vancouver.
All welcome. Free Parking. No charge. Followed by
discussion and refreshments.
An activity of the:
World Federalist Movement Canada - Vancouver
Branch
More
meeting background at:
http://bit.ly/WorldEnvironmentalAuthority
Sponsored: " Global Democracy at th UN: Why, How, When" (Michael Byers, UBC; Terry Farrell, Douglas College; Melissa Baril, SFU) Thurs. Nov. 15th, 2007 Unitarian Church (49th and Oak) 7:30 PM sponsored by World Federalist Movement Canada Vancouver Branch
Talks with discussion (Leonard angel):
"Ecological catastrophes: Preventable or
not?" August 16th Unitarian Church (49th and Oak) 7:30 PM sponsored by
World Federalist Movement Canada Vancouver Branch
"Measuring the ecological over shoot" July 19th Unitarian Church Vancouver, sponsored by World Federalist Movement Canada Vancouver Branch, part 2 in a series of 4 lecture/discussions
"Symptoms of global ecological problems" June 21 Unitarian Church Vancouver, sponsored by World Federalist Movement Canada Vancouver Branch, part 1 in a series of 4 lecture/discussions
Re: Secular Wisdom Institutes 2007:
January 26, February 16, March 30, and April 27, there will be four one day
(9am-5pm) workshops sponsored by the BC Humanist Association on "Science,
Meditation, and Wisdom". There is no fee for any workshop. Registration is
with Leonard Angel (Leonard_Angel@douglas.bc.ca ) by the
previous Friday of any workshop. For further information call Leonard Angel
604-876-6925.
Re: Global Parliamentary
Assembly:
January 18, 2007 Unitarian Church at 49th and Oak in Vancouver: Leonard Angel will
give a brief presentation on the various kinds of democratic deficits and the
way in which a Global Parliamentary Assembly would rectify some of them. This
will co-ordinate with the proposal for a UN Parliamentary Assembly. (Larry
Kazdan will also make a brief presentation on a similar topic as well.)
