Christopher Wasserman and Jakob von Uexküll on a humanist world government

At the climate change summit that ends on Friday in Rio de Janeiro, heads of state and government from across the world are discussing solutions for global environmental problems. Politicians should take inspiration from the humanist values of the many activists meeting alongside the summit, write Christopher Wasserman, founder of the Zermatt Summit, and Jakob von Uexküll, co-founder of the Alternative Nobel Prize, in the liberal daily Le Temps: "Anyone who still believes we are helpless against the power of money and the lobbies, the tyrants and the cynicism of the reasons of state, should see the faces and achievements of these innumerable heroes who, all over the world, replace or oppose the public authorities and change their neighbourhoods, villages, regions and the lives of millions of human beings. ... With this in mind we campaign for change. The fact that the challenges facing the world are so numerous, momentous and urgent encourages us to send a message to our leaders that we too would do well to heed: what we so abstractly call an international system is in fact a true community."

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