Global warming is the first truly global problem mankind has ever faced: melting glaciers, loss of arable land, more severe storms, lack of fresh water, over population, the list goes on. These problems are global in nature and therefore require a global response.
As individuals none of us has a voice when it comes
to global warming issues. The EARTH-SHIP
program will help to increase global warming awareness for
all people. Increased gloabal warming awareness will lead
to increased action. Soon the world's people will be able
to speak with one voice.
If a great many people speak with one voice, governments and corporations around the world will be forced to listen. Change will take place.
Prior to the EARTH-SHIP program
there has never been an attempt to unite the world's people
in order to provide a global voice to address a global warming
issues. The EARTH-SHIP program
is the first of its kind.
The Solution
The
EARTH-SHIP
program is a floating auditorium that uses live video conferencing,
lectures, meetings and a myriad of social events to bring
people together. People who partake in the
EARTH-SHIP
global warming program will be able to say that they are no
longer part of the problem as individuals. Instead people
will know they are part of the
EARTH-SHIP
family and therefore a part of the solution.
The EARTH-SHIP global warming
program will use live video conferencing to allow people
to discuss international issues, one-on-one and face-to-face,
with like-minded people from all around the world. It will
be an upbeat global pep-rally for concerns common to all
mankind; a chance for people from all nations to come together
- across national boundaries, across mountain ranges, and
even across oceans - to discuss common ideas, interest and
concerns.
EARTH-SHIP will use the connectivity provided by the Internet but it is the live video conferencing (LVC) capabilities of the EARTH-SHIP that will really allow people a very special and personal face-to-face contact. This will provide all participants with a sense of community that only direct interaction can create. A global community is essential if mankind is ever going to address global warming.
EARTH-SHIP will be a "people to people program", and not a federal program from nation to nation, or government to government. "Power to the people" has new meaning when confronting a truly global problem. The benefit of increasing the public's awareness was summarized best by Dr. David Suzuki, the BBC commentator and well-known environmentalists, when he said, "If the people will lead, the leaders will follow".
The Clearwater organization used increased public awareness in order to heighten concern for the environmental decline of New York's Hudson River.
Click here to see how the public's perception of pollution in the Hudson River changed, and how this concern translated into action.
EARTH-SHIP will do the same for global warming.
The Program
The
EARTH-SHIP program is a floating auditorium housed on a Tall Ship that will move from port to port and country-to-country all around the world. Eventually there will be many ships. There will be lectures, documentary films, food and music, all delivered in an upbeat, exciting venue.
(Note: Future vessels will be built new. The funding for the new ships will come from various multinational corporations. Go to Future Funding to learn how this unprecedented combination of sponsorship, donation, and a leveraged business expense will both diminish the exposure of corporations as well as exponentially increase their return.)
But the EARTH-SHIP global
warming program will also have a very serious side. There
will be a live video conferencing (LVC) screen on the ship.
The screen will show four locations at the same time. One
location will include all the various people gathered on the
main deck and on the adjacent pier. There will also be three
other locations from around the world on the screen at the
same time.
The members of the LVC will consist of invited guests from a regional university, the on-board university, local government officials, business leaders and the general public who have gathered on the ship's deck and on the adjacent pier. These people will be able to talk freely among themselves as well as to hear what other ordinary citizens all around the world feel about global warming. The topic will vary but the general discussion will be about global warming, who or what is responsible, what the consequences will be for mankind, and what should this generation do to stop it.
Imagine a global warming conference organized in a large
auditorium. Now imagine if you could move that auditorium
from city to city all around the world. That is exactly what
the EARTH-SHIP program will
do. In the process the EARTH-SHIP
global warming program will reach millions of people every
year. When there are a number of vessels in the program an
EARTH-SHIP will likely return
to the same port year after year. This from of branding for
the global environment is essential if change is ever to take
The First EARTH-SHIP
The first ship already exists; she is 700 tons deadweight and is now located in Germany. Additional ships,
EARTH-SHIP ONE,
EARTH-SHIP TWO, and so on, will be larger vessels of approximately 3,800 tons and built new from the keel up. (Please refer to the design drawings of Future Ships and be sure to look at the three classes of cabins).
The ship(s) will be either owned or chartered by EARTH-SHIP Limited, The funds needed to put the first EARTH-SHIP into service will come from contributions from individuals. Individual contributions are essential to the success of any grass-roots movement.
Once the EARTH-SHIP global
warming program is operational it will become obvious to
medium sized companies and multinational corporations that
this effort will attract large crowd of concerned citizens.
As a result of this it is likely that corporations will
play a greater roll in funding the new constructions of
future ships.
But the EARTH-SHIP program requires money in order to continue operations. Your contribution is vital to the success of the program and therefore vital in the fight to help stop global warming.
One hundred percent (100%) of every dollar you give to the EARTH-SHIP will go toward the fight to reduce green house gases. No contribution is too small. Every dollar counts so please do your part to help stop global warming.
Depending on the size of your contribution you will be allowed to join this effort on one of three different levels.
1) Receive the EARTH-SHIP newsletter
2) Become a digital crew member and,
3) Sail on the first Earth Ship.
