To: The next UK Government

A global "Philadelphia Convention"

Use our position at the UN to propose a Convention of representatives of all UN members to draw up a Constitution for Whole Earth Federation to provide a 21st Century replacement for the UN with the potential to bring us World Peace & Sustainability through World Law.

Why is this important?

Global chaos threatens our inchoate civilization this century far more than the American chaos of the 18th Century USA that followed the 13 states' victory in the 1776-83 War of Independence. That chaos was ended by the states sending representatives to a Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787. The Constitution that they produced was then ratified by all the states and, with some necessary constitutional amendments, still serves the USA today. UN member states urgently need to follow this American example because the looming effects of man-made climate change could soon lead to the collapse of civilization. We also believe that the only way to thwart this will be one offering a democratic global federation to deal with the rampant GREED of a few and the short-sighted selfishness of virtually all of us that have combined to create unacceptable and unsustainable economic divisions; our NATIONALISM that has created unacceptable and unsustainable geographical divisions; and our numerous RELIGIONS that have created all kinds of other divisions, most of them wholly irrational.
Along with widespread IGNORANCE, these divisive forces are preventing us from dealing with CLIMATE CHANGE, the fifth great divisive force, whose effects, if unchecked, will give us a planet of more hurricanes, more storm damage, more floods, more droughts, more failed harvests, more famine, more refugees, and more terrorist groups, all exacerbating the vicious spiral of wars, hatred and terrorism already being generated by the four primary divisive forces. There can be no healing of these divisions without a route map to the only political solution that can rid us of all of them: a federated world without today’s inequality, injustice, warrior nations and maniacal groups with vain thoughts of religious world domination; a world without any “wars on terror” or worse; a world in which today’s nation-states, European Union and Caliphate are replaced by a global community of around a thousand federated member states, co-operating to achieve sustainable development and to protect human rights. Drafting such a route map could be tricky. Following it would be even trickier. But all other routes will surely lead to an apocalyptic end to our inchoate civilization. Travel along the world federalist route is already overdue. It’s high time for you to take that first small step toward saving civilization through World Constitutional Conference to be sponsored by as many of the world’s people, parliaments and governments as possible, and aimed at producing an instrument for federal democratic world governance that builds on the supranational democracy of international unions such as the EU, and that is fit to replace the UN with a federal democratic global body capable of making and enforcing laws to control MNCs, arms production and the use of arms by nation-states, and to protect humanity from global pollution, climate change and extremes of inequality, and from nationalist and religious fanatics, while facilitating the devolution and localisation of all other aspects of government. 
Further reading: Gwynne Dyer: Climate Wars (Oneworld, 2008, 2010); Ian Hackett: The Spring of Civilization (CEF, 1973, 2006); Transcending Terror (O-Books, 2004); Succeeding Revolutions (CEF, 2005, 2006); Leopold Kohr: The Breakdown of Nations (Green Books, 1957,1986, 2001); Mayne & Pinder: Federal Union:The Pioneers (FTER/Macmillan, 1990); George Monbiot: The Age of Consent (Harper, 2004); Barbara Walker (ed.): Uniting the Peoples & Nations (WFM/WFA, 1993); Ted Wheatley: One Day Wide (CEF, 2008)
AND HERE'S THE  ALTERNATIVE SCENARIO IN 3 QUATRAINS:
1. TODAY
We're seven billion idiots heading for a fall
We fight or flee for holy lands. We talk of building walls.
Some still deny that climate change is anything to heed.
Some just live for power. Some just live to breed.
2. & 3. No space, sorry.