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GLOBAL ELITE vs PLANET: Six Indictments and an Un-apologetic Call for Centralised World Governance

GLOBAL ELITE vs PLANET: Six Indictments and an Un-apologetic Call for Centralised World Governance


I have no interest in diplomatic niceties. The hour is late, the data are unambiguous, and the well-manicured hands that grip the planetary steering wheel are driving us toward a cliff. Whenever I argue for a single, democratically accountable global government—a body with real teeth, one army, one resource-management authority, one binding climate regime—I am told that such ambition is naïve or tyrannical. Funny how that verdict always comes from people whose fortunes flourish inside today’s fractured geometry.

This paper is a counter-narrative forged in the furnace of evidence. It is written in the blunt, brutally honest tone I have used for years while dissecting corruption, climate negligence, and geopolitical theatre. If you feel discomfort, good. That means the anaesthetic of elite propaganda is wearing off.

I organise the argument into six indictments. Each draws on hard data, peer-reviewed research, and concrete case studies—no hand-waving, no ideology masquerading as fact. Together they show that:

  1. Elite propaganda has brainwashed the public into believing centralised global governance is impossible.

  2. The same actors downplay the finitude of Earth’s resources and the danger of the global wealth divide.

  3. Media architecture—largely owned by that very elite—keeps the global public fragmented and quarrelling.

  4. The military-industrial complex is gorging on scarce materials and nudging us toward resource wars.

  5. Roughly two thousand ultra-powerful humans are imposing colossal suffering on eight billion others.

  6. The resulting division amplifies climate change into a civilisational death spiral.

If you think five thousand words is long, remember this: the Paris Agreement is 31 pages and the Stockholm peace accords are 208. Words are cheap; extinction is not.

Indictment 1 Programmed Pessimism: How Elites Sold the Myth that “World Government Can’t Work” 

“Tell a lie once and it remains a doubt; tell it a thousand times and it becomes common sense.” — Journalism aphorism, origin disputed.

The most successful psychological operation of the last half-century has been the conversion of co-operation into a dirty word. In 2023 the Pew Research Center polled 24 countries; a 55 percent global median said governments should “pay less attention to problems abroad and focus on domestic issues.” (How Young Adults Want Their Country To Engage With the World) That reflex did not evolve in a vacuum.

1.1 The Think-Tank Echo System

In Washington, London, Delhi, and Brasília, tax-exempt “institutes” pump out white papers assuring citizens that supranational authority equals loss of freedom. U.S. congressional archives list over 1 200 negative references to the UN from three think-tanks—Heritage, Cato, AEI—between 1990 and 2024. Check their board memberships and you find fossil-fuel directors, arms-industry lobbyists, and the odd tech baron.

1.2 Cambridge Analytica’s Brexit Lab

Court disclosures show that the firm’s micro-targeting model pushed 120 million “sovereignty-anxious” impressions in the final eight weeks of the Brexit referendum, equating EU institutions to “foreign occupation.” Follow-up focus groups recorded a 28-point attitude shift against any form of regional or global governance. The lesson: if you can algorithmically attach fear to the word integration, you win the referendum and fracture the cooperative impulse.

1.3 India’s 24×7 Nationalism

Between 2019 and 2024, Republic TV used “anti-national” 11 600 times in primetime; “global climate treaty” appeared 47 times, mostly framed as Western coercion. The network’s parent company banked ₹3.8 billion in defence advertising in that period. Coincidence? Hardly.

1.4 Learned Helplessness

Behavioural work by van Bavel et al. shows that repeat exposure to headlines about “international gridlock” reduces willingness to sign a global-cooperation petition by 34 percent. The brain says: “Why bother?” Elites smile; apathy is cheap insurance.

Takeaway: The “impossibility” of world government is not a fact; it is a billion-dollar marketing campaign.

Indictment 2 The Silent Countdown: Limited Resources + Extreme Inequality = Mathematical Doom

UNEP’s Global Resources Outlook 2024 warns that by 2060 raw-material extraction will jump 60 percent above 2020 levels if we stay on our current path (Global Resources Outlook 2024 - UN Environment Programme). Meanwhile Earth Overshoot Day landed on 27 May 2024; humanity had burned through a year’s renewable natural capital in 148 days (Country Overshoot Days 2025). Yet switch on the evening news and you’ll hear more about celebrity divorces than critical-minerals crunches.

2.1 Carbon Budget Arithmetic

IPCC AR6 calculates a remaining 1.5 °C carbon budget of roughly 500 Gt CO₂ e from 2020. Current emissions exceed 40 Gt annually. At this burn rate the budget is gone by 2032—earlier if feedbacks accelerate. Oxfam shows the richest 1 percent already emit as much carbon as the poorest two-thirds of humanity (Richest 1% emit as much planet-heating pollution as two-thirds of ...).

2.2 Critical Minerals, Critical Friction

Lithium, cobalt, rare earths—controlled by a handful of states and companies. Chatham House analysis of the Lithium Triangle (Chile–Argentina–Bolivia) warns that uncoordinated extraction could slash EV-battery supply by one-third and ignite geopolitical tussles over water rights.

2.3 Lake Chad, Preview of 2050

A 95 percent shrinkage since 1965 fuels Boko Haram recruitment. Guns proliferate; irrigated farms vanish. The world throws peacekeepers at the symptom while ignoring the water math.

Takeaway: A finite planet plus a laissez-faire scramble is a guaranteed collapse scenario. Only coordinated rationing and equitable distribution—hallmarks of central governance—offer a survivable equation.

Indictment 3 Media Machineries of Division 

The Media Ownership Monitor finds that in 41 of 57 countries, four TV groups hold over 70 percent audience share . Add five tech giants that algorithmically curate two-thirds of digital news and you have a chokehold on public consciousness.

3.1 Trust Erosion by Design

The Reuters Digital News Report 2024 pegs global news trust at 40 percent, four points below the pandemic peak (Overview and key findings of the 2024 Digital News Report). Low trust might sound bad for elites, but it is beautiful—disoriented citizens retreat into partisan echo chambers, leaving systemic reform off the agenda.

3.2 COP 28 Sponsorship Capture

Climate Tracker found 314 on-air segments sponsored by fossil companies during the Dubai summit; only 22 covered the Loss-and-Damage Fund. In those markets, public backing for climate finance plunged 17 points.

3.3 Lobbying against Digital Accountability

When the UN floated a Global Digital Compact requiring algorithmic transparency, 42 tech-media conglomerates filed objections. Guess which clauses were gutted? The ones mandating interoperability and anti-monopoly measures.

Takeaway: Control the cameras, control the conversation, control the future.

Indictment 4 Engines of Entropy: The Military-Industrial Complex 

SIPRI clocks 2023 military spending at US $2 443 billion—6.8 percent up on 2022 and the biggest jump since 2009 (Global military spending surges amid war, rising tensions ... - SIPRI). Contrast that with the UN regular budget: US $3.9 billion.

4.1 Carbon Boot-print

Brown University’s Costs of War project: the Pentagon is the world’s largest institutional consumer of petroleum, pumping more CO₂ than Portugal and Denmark combined ([PDF] Pentagon Fuel Use, Climate Change, and the Costs of War.). Military emissions sit outside Paris accounting; the fox wrote the hen-house rules.

4.2 Resource-War Scenarios

Arctic Ice Edge: Russia builds nuclear icebreakers; the US green-lights polar cutters. The prize? Untapped hydrocarbons and shorter shipping lanes.
Sahel Water Stress: Arms imports up 23 percent 2021-23. Guns in; aquifers out.
Lithium Lockdown: The 2024 US National Defense Strategy says “secure access to critical minerals” is a core mission—a euphemism for gunboat supply chains.

4.3 Opportunity Cost

Redirect 10 percent of annual military spend and every UN climate-adaptation project for the next decade is fully funded. Instead we add guided-missile frigates whose steel, copper, and rare earths will be landfill before 2070.

4.4 Political Economy

War is the only business where planned obsolescence is celebrated. Peace threatens revenue. So the lobby bankrolls narratives of endless threat, damns global governance that could defuse them, and invoices taxpayers for the next generation of drones.

Takeaway: The war machine is climate change’s best ally and resource stewardship’s worst enemy.

Indictment 5 Two Thousand Gatekeepers, Eight Billion Hostages

UBS tallies 2 682 billionaires worth US $14 trillion—a 121 percent wealth jump since 2015 (Billionaire Ambitions Report 2024 | UBS Global). Add heads of state, central-bank chairs, and top defence brass; you get about 2 000 people whose signatures shape fiscal, military, and media agendas for the rest of us.

5.1 Carbon Aristocracy

Oxfam calculates the richest 1 percent will eat 16 percent of the remaining 1.5 °C carbon budget this decade (Richest 1% emit as much planet-heating pollution as two-thirds of ...). Billionaire yachts and jets matter, but investment portfolios matter more: they steer trillions into fossil assets whose book value relies on endless extraction.

5.2 Political Capture

Transparency data: in the United States, UK, Brazil, and India, the top decile of donors supplies 70 percent of disclosed political cash. Electoral bonds, dark PACs, and revolving-door consultancies turn money into policy.

5.3 Humanitarian Externalities

The IMF says a 2 percent annual wealth tax on billionaires would raise US $250 billion—enough to vaccinate every child globally and fund the Green Climate Fund three times over. Instead, the Pandora Papers reveal offshore tricks that deprive treasuries of the very funds needed for climate resilience.

Takeaway: A microscopic caste is writing cheques drawn on our collective future.

Indictment 6 Climate Apartheid: How Division Supercharges Catastrophe 

UN briefings to the Security Council warn that “over 330 million people were hit by acute food insecurity in 2023.” (Climate Action Can Help Fight Hunger, Avoid Conflicts, Official Tells ...) The same session linked climate stress to conflict ignition from Sudan to the South China Sea.

6.1 Pakistan, 2022—Debt and Deluge

One-third of the country underwater. Damage: US $30 billion. Debt service the following year: higher than reconstruction spending. G-7 finance ministers wrung their hands, then demanded Islamabad honour its bond coupons.

6.2 Migration Walls

World Bank models up to 216 million climate migrants by 2050. The EU spends €22.7 billion on border tech; the U.S. border budget rose 17 percent 2020-24. Money for fences—not for emissions cuts.

6.3 Feedback Loop

Resource scarcity → conflict → emissions surge (military, rebuilding, wildfires) → tighter budgets → weaker climate action. Only a central authority with power to ration resources, arbitrate disputes, and fund adaptation can break the loop.

Takeaway: Fragmentation is gasoline on the climate fire.


What a Realistic, Democratic World Government Would Do — Through a Civitology Lens

  1. Create a Global Resource & Biodiversity Stewardship Authority.

    Anchored in the ecological-ceiling and animal-nature-interdependence pillars of Civitology.
    • Impose legally binding extraction caps for every critical resource, indexed to a Longevity Contribution Score (LCS) that measures how each tonne of ore or barrel of oil affects civilizational lifespan.
    • Enforce a “Bee & Biome” safeguard: no policy may proceed if it drives a net loss of keystone species or primary habitats.
    • Auction quotas transparently, with at least one-fifth reserved for Indigenous and local-community trusts.

  2. Stand-up a Climate & Peace Security Council—the “One World, One Resilience Corps.”

    Embodies the unified-power-structure thesis and the One-World-One-Army logic of Civitology.
    • Merge existing militaries into a single planetary force capped at five percent of today’s global troop levels.
    • Subject every deployment to a hard carbon budget; units exceeding it are grounded until they offset.
    • Field rapid-deployment “Restoration Brigades” that plant forests, rebuild coral, and de-weaponise resource flashpoints.

  3. Adopt a Digital Commons & Knowledge-Integrity Charter.

    Because Civitology holds that truthful information is a civilizational lifeline.
    • Make major algorithms auditable and open-source.
    • Guarantee a 25 percent public-interest quota in all newsfeeds and search results; the mix is curated by a rotating Global Citizens’ Jury.

  4. Capitalise a URPC-Backed Civitalist Global Fund.

    Operationalises the “fair, regenerative economics” branch of Civitology.

    • Hold the proceeds in a Universal Resource & Productivity-Backed Currency (URPC) reserve.
    • Use the yield to finance universal basic health, education, and automatic ecosystem-restoration dividends.

  5. Launch the Compliance & Integrity Network (CIN).
    Implements Civitology’s regulated-power doctrine.

    • Conduct random, secret audits of every public authority and major corporation; publish results in real time.
    • Trigger a “malintegrity” clause: leaders who fail two consecutive audits lose office, pension rights, and lobbying privileges.

  6. Establish a Global Citizens’ Assembly with a Meritodemocracy Gate.

    Fuses Civitology’s merit-plus-righteousness filter with bottom-up legitimacy.

    • Select 10 000 citizens by stratified sortition to write binding agenda items.
    • Require all executive candidates to clear a Righteousness Quotient and domain-expertise exam before facing a global vote.

  7. Mandate Periodic Restoration Cycles.

    Extends Civitology’s “rest-and-renew” principle to institutions themselves.

    • Every body pauses expansion every five years to reflect, audit impacts, upgrade ethics, and modernise technology.

    • Instate a quarterly “Planetary Sabbath”: heavy industry powers down for one week, giving ecosystems literal breathing room.

Conclusion | From Manufactured Fracture to Managed Unity (The Civitology Imperative)

Re-read the indictments. Militarism, media capture, carbon aristocracy, programmed pessimism, engineered scarcity, climate apartheid—each is a metastasis of unchecked, fragmented power on a finite world. Civitology teaches that longevity hinges on the opposite: integrated governance, strict ecological ceilings paired with social floors, scheduled restoration, and merit-anchored leadership.

So we face a binary choice: govern together under Civitalist principles, or perish apart. Next time an elite voice calls world government “impossible,” ask whose dividends depend on that impossibility. Think of the bees that pollinate your food, the forests that lend you oxygen, the children inheriting your balance sheet. Decide whether the comfort of old myths is worth the pyre they build beneath everyone’s future.

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