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From: American Monetary Institute <members@monetary.org>
Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2023 at 17:17
Subject: A Monetary Reform Commission at COP 28?
To: <peterchallen@googlemail.com>
| Dear Peter, Monetary Reform Now The American Monetary Institute (AMI) is a monetary reform organization, and we know that money is the organizational fuel for many human activities. However, the Earth and all its people don’t have a seat at the bargaining table for a say in the use of this fuel. In contrast, money-driven corporations have a seat, and their profits, explained as their fiduciary responsibility, come before the care of the Earth and all its species. From Nov. 30 to Dec. 12, 2023, the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) takes place. A concerned group of AMI stewards is petitioning this conference not only to be properly concerned about Earth’s climate, not only to be concerned about environmental degradation everywhere, but also to be concerned about the role modern money plays in making environmental degradation happen. We invite other individuals and organizations to sign on, too. The full AMI Conference Statement can be read here. It includes the central tenets of AMI, the NEED Act, and the Alliance For Just Money’s AMRA. It also makes an observation coming from Dr. Peter Dietsch: “No matter how hard we work, we will never succeed in achieving a green transition by shifting existing money to green sectors as long as banks, supported by their central banks, can create an unlimited flow of new money for profitable fossil fuel industries.” Notice that Dietsch distinguished “shifting existing money” from “banks, supported by their central banks, can create an unlimited flow of new money….” This observation further underscores bank owners’ role in creating and deciding who receives money in our present system. If “We the People” don’t stand up to save the environment, will it be the bankers? If the banks and the Fed in the United States didn’t stop the widespread home foreclosures during the Great Recession (2007 – 2010), will they now save the environment? Please consider signing this short form – an open letter petition – as an individual or an authorized person from another civic organization. It requests that delegates to and participants in COP 28 learn about sovereign money reform and that the United Nations establish a monetary commission to contrast our present debt-based money system to a sovereign monetary system as proposed by worldwide monetary reform groups. Govert, Alfonso, Fernanda, Frans, Greg, Lucille, Nick, Steven Support Our Cause • Be a Part of the Solution • www.monetary.org American Monetary Institute, 1860 Sherman Avenue, Apt 4NE, Evanston, IL, 60201, USA Copyright © 2023 American Monetary Institute, All rights reserved. |
