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Igor I. Kondrashin - Ph.D., Philosopher, Russia

The improvement of civil education of all the Earth population
is the only way to the Sustainable Future of Humankind

The estimated statistics of the Earth population MENTAL development shows that all globally living individuals of the present (2012) generation (considered as 100%) can be calculated as follows:

Individuals

1) with mentality of XXI century level - less than 3 %

2) with mentality of XX century level - up to 10 %

3) with mentality of XIX century level - up to 20 %

4) with mentality of XVIII century level - up to 15 %

5) with mentality of XVII century level - up to 10 %

6) with mentality of XVI century level - up to 10 %

7) with mentality of XV century level - up to 10 %

8) with mentality of XIV century level - up to 10 %

9) with mentality of XIII century level - up to 10 %

10) with mentality level of before XIII century - about 5 %

Such difference in mentality of simultaneously living generation of people leads to the increase in their behavioural distinctions and emergence of status stratification of the world society. This stratification is reflected in the SCALE of mental-status classification of individuals. If all globally living individuals of the present (2012) generation will be considered as 100% then depending on the country of residing individuals we can have the following proportions of the social status ranks:

1) Geniuses, Philosophers, Personalities – very few people

2) Intelligent people – less than 1 %

3) Intellectuals – 3 - 5 %

4) Citizens – 5 - 25 %

5) Men, or humans – 10 - 50 %

6) philistines – 30 - 70 %

7) mentally-undeveloped or mentally-sick individuals, or

inhumans – more than 10 - 30 %

The above-stated statistics deprives people of possibility to understand each other that bears the greatest threat to Mankind and generates more and more problems on the Earth which can become insuperable.

Thus the basic threat to ALL Life on Earth – the growth of the number of individuals on the planet insufficiently brought up, educated and enlightened to have adequate for the XXI-st century consciousness, and with it both high-grade reason, wisdom and conscience.

Due to this reason the Humanity has:

1. Major global humanitarian threats:

- massive and widespread illiteracy and ignorance, low culture of behavior and bioethics;

- widespread disregard for issues of personal and public hygiene and environmental protection;

- a growing shortage of drinking water, foodstuffs and power resources;

- impossibility for many people to feed themselves and their families.

2. Major global social threats:

- poverty, unemployment and malnutrition (hunger);

- inability to maintain the universal purity and preservation of public order;

- pretentious luxury and demonstration of their wealth by separate individuals, causing by these bad feelings among the disadvantaged.

3. Overall global ideological threats:

- absence until now generally accepted philosophy that meets modern science;

- the continuing vacuum in the creation of a progressive universal ideology due to neglect to the values of classical philosophy since the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I (529 year);

- as a consequence, growth in the number of ignorant and unscientific ideal and ideological dogmas, contributing to the alienation, fragmentation of the world's population up to the hostility of certain groups, and even the peoples, nations, states and their units.

4. Major global political threats:

- Lack of Concept of Further Development of Mankind based on modern science;

- as a consequence, the political hegemony of certain economic structures in world politics, utilizing national and global political institutions in the interest and for the benefit of a narrow circle of financial and wealthy individuals for their further enrichment;

- attempts of some political institutions to impose its political will on other nations and all Mankind not by the methods of promoting positive examples of modern scientific knowledge and belief, but through the use of outdated ideological dogmas, the policy of double standards and doublespeak, a show of force or a threat of its use;

- potential threat of regional conflicts smouldering escalate into inter-state and even global military conflict with unpredictable consequences for the fate of Humanity.

5. General global threats and challenges to Humanity:

- Continued misunderstanding and absence of serious attempts to struggle with the base threat to Life on the Earth – global growth of number of people with the underdeveloped till the level of 21-st century or deformed consciousness by means of enlightenment, corresponding education and proper upbringing;

- acts of terrorism and military conflicts of the global character, which can lead to such planetary consequences as a nuclear winter, hypermass epidemics or intoxications, etc.;

- irreversible changes in the climate of the planet with horrors of floods, hurricanes, droughts, fires and poor harvests, mass illnesses;

- disappearance of woods, drying of the rivers and lakes, destruction of habitual florae and faunae, which negatively affects the health of the population of the planet;

- death of people from mass hunger, natural disasters, earthquakes, typhoons, tsunamis, epidemics and global anthropogenous catastrophes.

If misunderstanding of danger of the specified threats and challenges will continue, but the struggle and counteraction to these threats immediately and everywhere won't begin, the self-destruction of Mankind is inevitable in the very near historic time.

To eliminate or prevent these threats and challenges it is possible only one nonviolent way – to improve the worldwide system of upbringing and education, to unify it globally and on its basis to develop the consciousness of ALL inhabitants of the planet so that they become capable to understand each other in every spot on the globe and to live with each other in peace and harmony, in the conditions of general progress and prosperity.

Human beings (people) with underdeveloped or distorted consciousness cannot be considered as high-grade, full-fledged individuals, i.e. a real Man. It is a semifinished product which recruits ranks of individuals with the imperfect or deformed consciousness (i.e. the worst variant of the layman), or even non-humans.

As such individuals are incapable to implement fully their public duties, then for this reason they are unworthy to use in the same measure the human rights. Only bringing them back to normal consciousness through education and training can make them real, socially active people and full members of Humanity.

Ideally all of 100 % of the planet population should have the mentality of the XXI-st century! This alone will raise the status position of the population as minimum to the level of MAN, and even of CITIZEN. Only this can provide the Sustainable Future of Humankind.

The availability and even using of iPad or iPhone by any individual does not indicate that the level of his mentality is fully fit to the XXI century.

To achieve this level, it is necessary to acquire the following knowledge:

1) to know the language of international communication (English), ability to use a computer, internet and a mobile phone

2) to know culture and standards of decent behavior

3) to know Basic values and vices, founded on wisdom, reason and morality

4) to know basic duties and rights of Man (Human Being) and Citizen

5) to know the history of religions, theism and secularism, the «UNESCO Strategy on Philosophy», about Neo-Humanist and Trans-Humanist ideas

6) to know the healthy and orderly way of life, the evils of the lifestyle and behavior that should be avoided, and moreover, be fighted against

7) to know the structure of the world economy, the political and geographical maps of the Earth, the Aristotle's Table on the types of state (political) governance and modern typical structures of self-management

8) to know "Big History" and the modern scientific picture of the World

9) to know the List of today's major global threats and challenges to the Humanity

10) to know the United Nations Organization «Global Development Goals of Humanity in the 21st century» and draft projects of "The Earth Constitution"

In view of the above-stated the main task of governments of all countries, all international organizations is to eradicate civil ignorance and raise the level of knowledge of each Man on Earth, and, consequently, his mentality, to the required level of the 21st century.

In politics and economics, in government posts and in business in each country should prevail not philistines or individuals with underdeveloped or a sick mentality, but CITIZENS with mentality of the XXI century.

It is them who finally can unite and organize themselves into wisely self-governed CITIZENSHIP of the Earth-XXI and provide the Sustainable Future of Humankind. If so, then after a while every inhabitant of our planet should and has to become a CITIZEN of the Earth-XXI!

To make it as a reality the WORLD PHILOSOPHICAL FORUM has initiated the GLOBAL PROGRAM of conservation and further progress of Humankind through Earth-XXI CITIZENSHIP using the world net of Socratic Philosophical Schools for civil educating in one similar way and certification world population as Earth-XXI Citizens. 

After becoming Citizens of the Earth-XXI people get the opportunity to live on the planet as a uniform community friendly and peacefully. But to be like this they must ensure that ALL inhabitants of the planet urge to become Citizens of the Earth-XXI.

Thus, there is only one mechanism for establishing coexistence on Earth of all its inhabitants – their eagerness for the new status – to residing on the planet as a new, more perfect social identity of people of the new type – as the CITIZEN of the Earth (WORLD). Finally ALL individuals of the Humanity should become Citizens of the Earth.