Humans have a tremendous capacity to understand their surroundings. This capacity has given human species the edge over rest of the living beings on this planet. But after five hundred years of, what seems to be, fantastic advancement in the understanding of our Universe, we still don’t even have the slightest clue about 95% of the Universe. All the billions of galaxies each containing millions stars along with planets that orbit them, interstellar dust and intergalactic dust makes up only 5% of the Universe we live in [Dark Matter (25%) and Dark Energy (70%) constitute the rest of mass-energy density of the Universe]. If we go by human’s standards of considering what is significant and what is not, then the planet on which we live in doesn’t even matter to the purpose of existence of this Universe, if at all there is one. So, we still have a very long way to go in understanding the universe. (Feynman had a great analogy to explain the term “understanding of nature”)
Unfortunately, all this study of the universe is done by just a fraction of humans that have lived on this planet. An incredible amount of human potential was/is being wasted. As if natural disasters are not enough to destroy us, we managed to find ingenious ways to destroy ourselves with outdated religious beliefs which resulted in certain group exploiting the uninformed, imaginary fears about neighbors mostly fueled by jungle instincts to dominate others etc. Hence the threats for human species are
- Natural Disasters (Earth Quakes; Tsunamis;Floods;Supernova explosion in our Sun’s neighborhood; Asteroid Strikes etc)
- Human-made Disasters (Wars; Terrorism; Famine; Exploitation based on race, nation, religion, caste; Alien attack etc)
Solution in Federal Government of Earth
A multi-tier federal government of Earth is essential to solve all the problems mentioned. A multi-tier federal government is a type of governing structure where there are different levels of governments taking care of different aspects of human lives. Such distribution of jobs among various government levels have both the advantages of small countries (like preserving local culture, language, tradition; efficient solutions for local problems) and of huge countries (like efficient crisis management, good technical expertise, enough resources to maintain police).
The huge government of Earth would have enough technical expertise and resources to deal with any natural disaster in the world swiftly. As a judicial system would replace wars as the tool to resolve conflicts, more resources will be at the disposal of various scientists to find a solution for natural disasters, even from outer space. (We may have to abandon this planet for a better one or build shields to protect earth from supernova explosions).
In my view the most important reason to form an Earth Government is to tackle the alien threat. If aliens visit our planet at this very moment then there are two possible scenarios. 1) Native American Scenario and 2) Indian Scenario
Native American Scenario: If human species are primitive by aliens’ standards then they simply would destroy humans and occupy this planet for their home.
Indian Scenario: If aliens find human civilization to be resourceful and not so primitive in weapon technology then they would decide to trade with us and hence set up factories on this planet. Klingon Orion Arm Company or Vulcan Orion Arm Company would be set up to trade with countries on Earth. One company supports US, another company supports China and within no time humans would find themselves under Foreign rule.
Both the aforementioned scenarios can be avoided if a well established decentralized Earth government exists before arrival of aliens. An Earth government can at least give a good fight before getting annihilated if humans are really primitive. On the other hand, the Earth government can easily avoid the divide and rule policy of aliens if at all we find ourselves in a fortunate situation of aliens being not so advanced a civilization than us.
India’s role in forming Earth Government
Due to various historical reasons a set of humans got this opportunity to experiment with a prototype of a world government . Despite partition, India is still a mini-Earth with various languages, cultures, ethnic groups and even a huge geographical diversity. If we closely observe India, each district deserves to be a separate country by eastern European or west African standards and each state deserves to be a separate country by western European or south American standards (It is unfortunate that India has only two-tier government structure, totally neglecting district/municipal governments). India is essentially a nation of nations. The success of this democratic secular republic is necessary to encourage European Union, Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), African Union etc to become national entities by rising above their current national tags. Eventually a Federal Earth Government can be formed which would save human species so that we could better understand this Universe.
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