Global problems need a global parliament

MOST people understand, as British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Pope Benedict have recently observed, that global problems require global solutions.

For this to happen, we require two things: a change in our consciousness so that we recognise the earth’s resources are finite and more effective international institutions that can keep us from destroying each other and the environment.

The UN must be strengthened so that it becomes more than a talking shop and has the resources to fulfil the great responsibilities it bears for peace, development and social justice.