SIMPOL EVOLVES in scale, teamwork and hope against huge odds……….
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Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2025 at 10:00
Subject: Global Politics of Love: Part 6
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The latest from the Simpol Campaign. View this email in your browser  Dear Peter By the time you read this, the COP-30 global summit on carbon emissions reductions will have just taken place. Given we are now in the 30th iteration of this process, what confidence can we have that any substantive agreement will result; that this COP will prove any different to the preceding ones? COP should, of course, be supported. But I suggest we’d also be wise to work on alternatives in parallel. To that end, I’m happy to announce that Simpol has entered into a partnership with SmartSettle Infinity  a computer assisted multi-stakeholder negotiation platform designed to help stakeholders reach more optimal outcomes on contentious issues. SmartSettle bills itself as “The world’s most advanced negotiation system, supporting the most complex negotiations on earth.” The idea is to develop a model for climate negotiations that takes advantage of SmartSettle’s enhanced negotiating platform while combining it with Simpol’s concept of simultaneous implementation and the potential of its voting process to overcome political opposition. It’s early days since our cooperation has only just started. But stand by for further updates in coming months. Also, the pan-European political party VOLT Europa has shown strong interest in Simpol as a means of dealing with global problems that neither individual nations nor the European Union can adequately address. Simpol’s National Coordinator for the Netherlands, Kees Kerremans, will be attending VOLT’s General Assembly later this month to develop stronger contacts with them. We hope, of course, to develop similar contacts with other political parties too. A Global Politics of Love for People of All Faiths and None And now let’s continue with the next instalment in the Global Politics of Love series. This instalment is particularly relevant as we observe what may, or may not, occur at COP-30. As always, if you missed previous articles in the series, you can find them at https://simpol.org/who-we-are/global-politics-of-love/newsletters Part 5: Simultaneity In the previous newsletter, we saw how simultaneity liberates our right to vote. This time, let’s talk about another way that simultaneity opens new doors for us, breaks down barriers, and creates new worlds.Currently we are far from the new world we yearn for. As I’ve demonstrated elsewhere, today’s global economy is driven by the vicious circle of destructive global competition (DGC), a force engendered by the ability of capital and corporations to move their investments or operations to wherever in the world they can make the highest profits. Always needing inward investment to maintain employment and growth, governments are therefore forced to compete destructively with each other to keep their economies internationally competitive; as attractive as possible to investors and corporations. The result: global investors and corporations win, while ordinary citizens and the environment lose. Under DGC, then, there’s simply no way to ‘love all our neighbours’ globally, only a way to compete destructively which, ultimately, will ruin us all. That’s why I characterise DGC as a vicious circle. Because, vicious it is. The most vicious thing, however, is the confining, straight-jacketing effect DGC has on our minds. The harder we all compete, the more blind we become to any other possibility. Because, in any competition, no one can give up without foregoing the potential spoils. Continuing and intensifying the competition seems the only way to win. Our minds cannot see anything else. We see this mental confinement today in how politicians try to reconcile global interests, such as drastically cutting carbon emissions, with national interests like keeping their economies internationally competitive. But since DGC makes these two objectives fundamentally incompatible, all politicians can do is try to persuade citizens (and perhaps themselves) that they are compatible; to have us swallow the lie that in the age of globalisation environmental sustainability and social justice can somehow be reconciled with economic growth and competitiveness when, in fact, they can’t. All the while that we remain wholly submerged in the current context of DGC (which obstructs our ability to see any other viable context), we are forced, in effect, to lie to ourselves. Our minds consequently remain closed, seeing yet more competition as the only answer. In religious terms, we might say that this mental confinement confines us to a world of sin. How do we resolve this? How can we put up with having to play DGC’s sinful game while at the same time break out of it? That seems like a contradiction in terms; a question with no answer. Here, we might recall the Bible story in Matthew 22 when the Pharisees sought to trick Jesus into incriminating himself by posing a similarly impossible question: ‘Is it lawful to pay taxes unto Caesar?’. Impossible, because had Jesus answered no, he’d have incriminated himself. Had he said yes, he would have betrayed everything he believed in. Taking from his pocket a coin with Caesar’s head on it, Jesus’s answer was ‘Render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s and what is God’s unto God.’ For us with DGC, it’s a similar dilemma because nations cannot stay competitive and solve global problems. But this is where Simpol’s understanding of DGC and its articulation of simultaneity allow us to escape DGC’s straight-jacket. That’s because the very idea of simultaneity – all or sufficient nations implementing policies simultaneously – means no nation would suffer a competitive disadvantage. What was once impossible suddenly becomes possible. Our minds are thus opened to the radical new possibilities and solutions that become available to us if we cooperate. Simultaneous implementation, together with the powerful way that Simpol invites us to use our votes, combine to produce a powerful process potentially capable of achieving binding, cooperative global governance; the governance needed for us to  “love” all our neighbours globally and stay competitive. This, then, is how Simpol releases us from mental confinement, transforming sterile policies into fertile ones that enable them – and the new world we yearn for – to be brought within humanity’s collective grasp. Just as Jesus found an answer to a seemingly impossible dilemma, Simpol does the same. For perhaps the first time in human history we citizens now have, in the form of Simpol, a way using our votes in national elections to ensure beneficial global outcomes – a way, we might say, of voting globally; of making ourselves genuine world citizens. Supporting Simpol, then, is a way we can each make a very personal statement; by electorally “taking sides” in a way that shows all humanity that we are, in fact, all on the same side. Ask yourself: is there any valid excuse not to support Simpol? And by supporting it do we really have anything to lose? Give us your thoughts – they’re important to us! Until then… John Bunzl – International Simultaneous Policy Organisation – https://simpol.org – Nov. 2025 Get in touch Copyright © 2025 International Simultaneous Policy Organisation (ISPO), All rights reserved. You are receiving this email as a supporter of Simpol Campaign, the International Simultaneous Policy Organisation (ISPO), or as a signatory to the Simpol Pledge. 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