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| THE BIG IDEA 60 seconds to change the world Can a simple idea help make the world a better place? Each week we ask a guest to outline an idea to improve all our lives. Here, landscape architecture professor Martha Schwarz argues we should all be shareholders of the world's natural resources. | |
| Resources will no longer be owned by specific countries but by all the citizens of the earth. | Resources will no longer be owned by specific countries but by all the citizens of the earth. |
| Every person would be a shareholder of the value of all global natural resources. | Every person would be a shareholder of the value of all global natural resources. |
| I'd create a global resource oversight committee and the initiative would be capitalised by the G8 countries, which would have to donate 80% of their military funding over the next five years. FROM BBC WORLD SERVICE More from The ForumDownload the 60 Second Podcast | I'd create a global resource oversight committee and the initiative would be capitalised by the G8 countries, which would have to donate 80% of their military funding over the next five years. FROM BBC WORLD SERVICE More from The ForumDownload the 60 Second Podcast |
| This would allow for $1 trillion a year for seed money. | This would allow for $1 trillion a year for seed money. |
| This committee will act as a steward for the maintenance, protection and operations of all global natural resources and to bring gross economic inequity into global balance, through the redistribution of wealth. | This committee will act as a steward for the maintenance, protection and operations of all global natural resources and to bring gross economic inequity into global balance, through the redistribution of wealth. |
| As a first step, in a series of steps, to bring environmental balance - the economic value of all natural resources will be determined. | As a first step, in a series of steps, to bring environmental balance - the economic value of all natural resources will be determined. |
| For example, the rainforest is valued not only for the trees but for its production of oxygen, its intake of carbon dioxide, its ability to absorb water and its biodiversity. | For example, the rainforest is valued not only for the trees but for its production of oxygen, its intake of carbon dioxide, its ability to absorb water and its biodiversity. |
| Finally, the top 20 countries of the world would be taxed based on the amount of pollutants they produce and paid to poor countries to help protect environmentally critical resources. | Finally, the top 20 countries of the world would be taxed based on the amount of pollutants they produce and paid to poor countries to help protect environmentally critical resources. |
| Martha Schwarz is Professor of Landscape Architecture at Harvard University | Martha Schwarz is Professor of Landscape Architecture at Harvard University |
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