Global actions require local and national participation. International cooperation and action requires community perspectives and legitimacy if it is to be effective.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.
We need to get involved in things that are important to other countries, just as we expect them to participate in things that are important to us.
The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations.
We believe very passionately that an international approach is necessary to achieve some of these goals.
As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or the global level.
So, the international community are all the countries that are important: the United States definitely everywhere; the European Union because it is very important, and also, they do show a great deal of international responsibility; and then the local players.
Globalisation must have, as a critical component, international dispensation in the locality of U.N. institutions. It cannot be, and must not be, business as usual in the establishment and location of international institutions, especially of the United Nations.
For comprehensive Earth action, an all-of-the-Earth representative democracy is required. That is, a global parliament.
One of the most important lessons we can glean from the environmental movement is to 'think globally and act locally.'
A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs.
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