Welcome! May we pour you a cup of tea?
For this is an oasis with a mission, custom-made for we the people to consider, with neighbors near and far, how best to address our humanitarian and planetary crises, how best to solve our increasingly wild and fractious rides around the sun.
We begin with three priorities.
So how exactly can humanity end the scourge of war? How do we meet such a seemingly impossible challenge, particularly when the cynic, the terrorist and the fascist will be always among us?
In the words of Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Dag Hammarskjöld, “Our work for peace must begin within the private world of each one of us.”
So THI has collected a century of voices from across the continents, offering insight and inspiration to help us become the generation that ended war.
One of the most powerful introductions to climate change is David Attenborough's video, linked below. It is as clear about the challenges of Earth's extreme temperatures, massive floods and cataclysmic storms as it is about the many solutions humanity can implement, working together in full cognition of the science,
To help enlighten us on those solutions, THI has collected dozens of inspiring editorial pieces from across the continents -- essays, videos, poetry, music, speeches. We will continue to complement them, as our resources expand, with the most current science and the most persuasive plans of action, such as Project Drawdown.
Democracy is a customizing process, not the adoption of a standard package. There is no secret sauce best for every country. As Churchill observed, "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others that have been tried from time to time."
THI is gathering dozens of compelling voices from across the continents, people keenly tuned to how each of us can help preserve the promise and reality of government by the people, of the people, and for the people.
May the insights and inspirations throughout this planetary assembly -- presented on the wings of essays, images, speeches, artwork, film, literature, poetry, and music -- move you to help fan the aspirational breezes of our shared humanity into the winds of change we so urgently need.
Let us together orchestrate a future that works for all sentient beings, a future that empowers succeeding generations with unrestrained kindness, understanding, love, and, not least, deep respect for the enthralling and necessary variety of life on Earth.