New York, NY – Declaring the COVID-19 pandemic the ultimate failure of our world’s leaders to address our greatest collective threats — including deadly pandemics, climate change, ecosystem destruction, and proliferating weapons of mass destruction — citizens of 35 countries have come together to form www.OneShared.World. The new global social movement and political force, announced today, is building a global constituency demanding that leaders at all levels take immediate steps to address our greatest shared challenges.
Seeking to fundamentally alter the global power structure so that the most pressing common needs of all people can be collectively addressed, OneShared.World will drive tangible progress toward addressing our greatest common existential challenges and improving the lives of everyone on earth, particularly the most vulnerable. The global democratic movement aspires to augment and inspire, but not supplant, existing national governments and international institutions.
“The ultimate problem we face today is not the coronavirus, or deadly pathogens, or any other single one of these threats. It is our inability to solve most any global existential challenge we collectively face,” said movement founder Jamie Metzl. “In each of these areas, the narrow interests of our specific nations overpower our collective needs as members of one species sharing the same planet. Unless we solve that problem, we’ll keep jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire.”