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Solving Global Problems with UN Resolutions
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While engaging people outside of traditional power structures is important, solving global problems like climate change, pandemics, and WMD requires more structure and action than just attending a global citizen concert or tweeting. Using UN resolutions as a model and working with young people can help drive the necessary change.
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The biggest challenges we face as a civilization are increasingly global, however, our organizational principles and sovereignty are not unified enough to solve these problems.
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The biggest challenges we face as a civilization are increasingly global, however, our organizational principles and sovereignty are not unified enough to solve these problems. The vision is to work together on these challenges, and although the progress has been made, the problem of climate change still needs to be addressed.
ChapterSolving Global Problems with UN Resolutions
Episode#247 – Jamie Metzl: Lab Leak Theory
PodcastLex Fridman Podcast
The focus should be on creating a global constituency of individuals who demand that leaders balance broader and narrower interests for a better solution to take place when it comes to global action problems such as climate change, pandemics, and WMD.
4:46:15 - 4:48:55 (02:40)
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The focus should be on creating a global constituency of individuals who demand that leaders balance broader and narrower interests for a better solution to take place when it comes to global action problems such as climate change, pandemics, and WMD. While governments and corporate leaders are doing exactly what we've hired them to do, we must ask bigger questions and work towards solutions that come from the collective action of people.
ChapterSolving Global Problems with UN Resolutions
Episode#247 – Jamie Metzl: Lab Leak Theory
PodcastLex Fridman Podcast
A group of young people worked with former chief counsel of the United Nations to craft a UN resolution ensuring access to safe water, sanitation, and hygiene, as well as pandemic protection for everyone by 2030.
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A group of young people worked with former chief counsel of the United Nations to craft a UN resolution ensuring access to safe water, sanitation, and hygiene, as well as pandemic protection for everyone by 2030. This youth-led initiative aims to provide a platform for engaging those outside of traditional power structures to influence global policy-making.