Some people understandably ask if this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge is ‘too vague’ (for example, in calling for all people to unite in diversity to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice (including social structural, systemic and behavioural causes of suffering and injustice) and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways), or suggest that you need to be ‘more specific’, so the following text outlines some of the reasons why this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge is intended to have the approach that it has, or why the approach which this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge has (which might sound vague to some people) might be useful for efforts to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways… (and make that the priority of human society…).  It’s probably best to read all the text on the page titled ‘some explanation’ on this site (as well as reading all the text in the ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge’) before reading the text on this page, partly as, while some of what’s on the ‘some explanation’ page is repeated on this page, the text on the ‘some explanation’ page lays foundations (which aren’t touched on on this page) for a lot of what’s on this page; and for more explanation of reasons why this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge might be useful for efforts to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways… (and make all of that the priority of human society…), please go to the page titled ‘some more explanation’ (you can go to the ‘some explanation’ page and the ‘some more explanation’ page by clicking on those buttons in the top-right corner of the pages on this site).

        (  It might be useful to mention first that being involved for quite a few years in more conventional and ‘specific’ kinds of charity work and campaigning or activism, targeting ‘specific’ causes of human suffering and injustice, such as cancer, poverty or ecocide (in specific areas and globally), is part of what has led to this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge; it’s not a lack of awareness of how more conventional kinds of charity work, campaigning or activism are done (or how conventional campaigns and petitions work, etc), that has led to this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge; and hopefully the text on this page outlines some of the obvious limitations of those more conventional and ‘specific’ types of charity work, campaigning or activism, and again hopefully outlines some more reasons (some reasons other than those outlined on the page titled ‘some explanation’ on this site) why something like this ‘people unite’ declaration, pledge and petition could be useful (or could be a useful step) for overcoming and eliminating or fighting all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximising well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways (in ways which can be empirically and rationally verified (as far as possible) to be the most effective)…, and making all of that the priority of human society… (or for bringing about a situation in which all people can unite in diversity to make all of that the priority of human society…); this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge’ obviously has many limitations too, and there are obviously many problems with it (some of those limitations and problems possibly being a lot more obvious than others), and some of those limitations and problems will be covered separately. Obviously so many different kinds of action are needed in order to get far enough in fighting all the suffering and injustice in the world and maximising well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways; one of the purposes of this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge is obviously to support and encourage all action to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways*, but a main purpose of this is obviously to also help make more space for more action to do all of that (and all action to do all of that), or to help make enough more space for (or to generate) enough more action to do all of that, i.e. to help ensure that all of human society is primarily devoted to doing all of that (or to help make it the priority of human society to do all of that); again this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge obviously isn’t a perfect idea or an end in itself, but is just a means to contribute to the aim to make it the priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways, and a means to contribute to the aim to address, overcome and eliminate some particular underlying problems with or in the current structuring of human society which:
– prevent enough from being done to fight the suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways;
– at least indirectly cause so much suffering and injustice in so many (other) ways*;
– get in the way of all people uniting in diversity to make it the priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways… (and overcoming and eliminating those particular underlying problems could make it so much easier to overcome and eliminate all the other problems or obstructions which get in the way of all people uniting in diversity to make all of that the priority of human society…).
Those particular underlying problems are obviously alluded to in the text of the ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge, and the rest of the text on the pages of this site hopefully outlines some of the reasons why something like this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge could be useful for addressing, overcoming and eliminating some of those particular underlying problems which it could be useful for addressing, overcoming and eliminating (or the rest of the text on the pages of this site hopefully outlines some of the reasons why something like this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge could be useful for bringing about a situation in which all people can unite in diversity to make it the priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways…).  And if there are more effective and faster ways of addressing, overcoming and eliminating those particular underlying problems with or in the current structuring, or if there are more effective and faster ways of bringing about a situation in which all people can unite in diversity to make it the priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways… (which take into account and deal with all the issues raised on this site), then this would obviously support those ways more than this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge; if there are ways which can definitely address, overcome and eliminate those particular underlying problems with or in the current structuring, and which can definitely make it the priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways (which again take into account and deal with all the issues raised on the pages of this site), then this would obviously support those ways instead of this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge.  The reason why the full text of this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge is as long as it is, is that in order for there to be true uniting in diversity (of all people) to truly make it the priority of human society to overcome and eliminate or fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways…, it could obviously be useful (or possibly necessary) for some ideas to be dealt with and elaborated on, and for certain other steps to be taken, to lay sufficient foundations for that uniting in diversity (of all people) to make all of that the priority of human society…; and the full text of this declaration, petition and pledge obviously doesn’t mention all the necessary ideas and steps specifically or individually, but the ideas it deals with hopefully lay sufficient foundations for all the necessary ideas to be dealt with, and the steps it implicitly calls for hopefully lay sufficient foundations for all the necessary steps to be taken; all the steps this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge implicitly calls for are aimed at being useful for (and possibly might be necessary for) bringing about a situation in which all people can unite in diversity to make it the priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways… .  People signing this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge obviously doesn’t in itself constitute people actually uniting in diversity to make all of that the priority of human society… (and again obviously so many different kinds of action are needed to do all of that), but again something like this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge (with all the steps it implicitly calls for) could, as a whole, hopefully provide a useful step for bringing about a situation in which all people can unite in diversity to make it the priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways… (and again the text on the pages of this site hopefully outlines some of the reasons why), but again if there are more effective and faster ways of doing that (which take into account and deal with all the issues raised on the pages of this site), this will obviously support those ways more than or instead of this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge.
There are obviously so many specific causes of suffering and injustice which it’s so important to mention specifically (including causes of suffering and injustice which need to be addressed in order for other causes of suffering and injustice to be fought in the most effective ways) in so many contexts, but for various reasons, the text on this website doesn’t mention so many of those specific causes of suffering and injustice (which it’s so important to mention specifically in so many contexts), but obviously just refers to all of those specific causes of suffering and injustice in general (by just using the phrase ‘all the different causes of suffering and injustice’); one of those reasons why so many specific causes of suffering and injustice aren’t mentioned specifically on this site is that so many people within the current structuring of human society are manipulated, misled or coerced (in many ways*) into believing the lies that some action to fight many of those specific causes of suffering and injustice is a threat to them, or will cause suffering and injustice to them*; and sometimes even mentioning many of those specific causes of suffering and injustice in some contexts (as well as taking some types of action to eliminate those) can divide people and set people against each other in competition; so sometimes, in some contexts, even mentioning those particular causes of suffering and injustice (as well as taking some types of action to address those) can actually exacerbate those causes of suffering and injustice; and in order to fight causes of suffering and injustice like those in the most effective ways, it could possibly be useful in something like this to try and deal with the underlying problems with or in the current structuring which cause people to see action to fight those particular causes of suffering and injustice (or sometimes even any mention of those) as a threat to them (or which cause people to be divided and set against each other in competition by even any mention of those particular causes of suffering and injustice in some contexts, as well as by some action to eliminate those), and which also cause and allow those particular causes of suffering and injustice to start with (as well as causing and allowing so much other suffering and injustice in many other ways), before mentioning causes of suffering and injustice like those specifically (in something like this) for the moment (and again hopefully the text on this website outlines some of the ways in which this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge could be useful for dealing with underlying problems like those, though, again, if there are more effective ways of dealing with underlying problems like those, this would support those ways; and again this obviously supports all the different kinds of action that are necessary to deal with those underlying problems in the most effective ways).  No one should feel threatened by this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge, as its purpose is obviously to maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways… . Depending on what levels of causation you’re defining causes of suffering and injustice on (and other similar factors), within the current structuring of human society no causes of suffering and injustice are addressed enough in the most effective ways (according to how, again, in order for ways of fighting suffering and injustice to be the most effective ways, they need to be ways which don’t cause other suffering and injustice even instrumentally…); and again part of the purpose of this is to make enough space for people to draw enough attention to all of those different causes of suffering and injustice specifically (in far better ways than can be done here for many reasons), and to make enough space for enough action to fight all of those different causes of suffering and injustice (enough) in the most effective ways, or to help ensure that all of human society is primarily devoted to doing that (or to help make it the priority of human society to do that), in ways which don’t divide people and set people against each other in competition.  And because there’s obviously such a massive number of different specific causes of suffering and injustice (which can be articulated in so many different ways) which it’s so important to mention specifically in so many contexts, it’s possibly not useful to try and mention all of them specifically in all the necessary detail (and all the ways they can be articulated) in something like this, or it’s possibly better to again just refer to all of those specific causes of suffering and injustice in general in something like this (by just using the phrase ‘all the different causes of suffering and injustice’).  And again, underlying problems in the current structuring like those which this aims to contribute to eliminating, possibly at least instrumentally cause, allow or exacerbate all of those specific causes of suffering and injustice*, and prevent enough from being done to fight causes of suffering and injustice like those*; and in order to fight all of those specific causes of suffering and injustice in the most effective ways, it’s possibly necessary to eliminate those underlying problems in the current structuring*.
At various points in the text on this site (including in the text of the ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge itself’, certain ‘amounts’ of suffering and injustice, as well as certain ‘amounts’ of well-being, happiness and fulfilment, are referred to (along with, for example, the need to communicate how much worse the amounts of suffering and injustice will be if people can’t change certain social structures, systems and behaviours fast enough…), and there obviously may not be universally-understood units of measurement for amounts of suffering and injustice or for amounts of well-being, happiness and fulfilment, etc, but it’s obviously still potentially possible to communicate amounts of suffering and injustice or amounts of well-being, happiness and fulfilment, etc, in many different ways or different forms of language which different people can understand.
It could be good to also bring up here near the beginning of this page that the main reason why there are no references or bibliographies on the pages of this site, where certain facts are mentioned, and where, in certain customs or conventions, it might be expected that there would be references and bibliographies, is that those facts (mentioned on the pages of this site) can be verified in or by so many different sources in peer-reviewed science, that it would be ridiculous to try and list all of those sources; and it could be misleading to just write just a few (or even just one) of those sources, as that could imply that those few sources are the only sources (or that that one source is the only source) which those facts can be verified in or by; while those facts (mentioned on pages of this site) are not publicised or exposed anywhere near enough within the current structuring of society, it’s still fairly easy to find sources which those facts can be verified in or by, if you search, for example, in the work of different scientific organisations and charities or NGOs who work in the relevant areas (as long as that work is peer-reviewed); and part of the purpose of this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge is obviously to ensure that people or groups who have the most control over any (controllable) influences (which have the most influence on people’s thought, behaviour, values, aspirations and consciousness) publicise and expose facts like those enough, and publicise and expose enough how those facts can be verified in or by so many sources in peer-reviewed science. 
And for various reasons, some of the sentences on the pages of this site (particularly in the text of the ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge itself) possibly might be fairly long and convoluted, but while some grammatical rules might be stretched or bent in some of those sentences (and some grammatical rules might be used slightly creatively and flexibly in some of them), grammatical rules aren’t completely broken in them; and those sentences obviously aren’t impossible to understand when thinking about them with grammatical logic, or when applying grammatical logic and rules to understanding them, and so on.  And in case it’s not clear, in the text of the ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge, some phrases or clauses in the later parts of some sentences, which are written out in full near the beginning of the text, are replaced with ellipses in other sentences further on in the text (so that not so much more text is repeated).
Also for various reasons, this website deliberately isn’t flashy, isn’t meant to be like so much advertising, or isn’t meant to manipulatively draw people in. 
The text on the pages of this website obviously needs a lot of editing, and is obviously incomplete along with being unfinished (for reasons which are mentioned near the end of the page on this site titled ‘some more explanation’, in the section in slightly smaller writing), or obviously needs so much more to be added to it, but hopefully what’s written on this site still gives enough of an outline of some of the reasons why something like this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge could be useful (or could be a useful step) for fighting all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximising well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways (and making that the priority of human society), and hopefully the gist of it is clear enough.  If you read any of this and find any mistakes or inconsistencies, please get in touch to say what they are. 
What’s written on this site obviously massively simplifies a lot of the issues that are written about here, but it’s still applicable to those issues.  
And pretty much all of what’s written on the pages of this site is fairly obvious, but it’s also fairly obvious that, within the current structuring of human society, pretty much all of what’s written on the pages of this site (which is fairly obvious) isn’t acknowledged and acted on enough. )

        When people have asked if this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge is ‘too vague’ (again, for example, in calling for all people to unite in diversity to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice (including social structural, systemic and behavioural causes of suffering and injustice) and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways), or have suggested that it needs to be ‘more specific’, often they’ve suggested that if you’re working on a project to fight any suffering and injustice, or to benefit or any help people, you need to target only one ‘specific’ cause (or only some ‘specific’ causes) of suffering and injustice (often on relatively surface levels of causation*), such as cancer or poverty in one particular area…, or need to target only one ‘specific’ group of people in one area, or even only one person (and that’s part of what they’ve meant by being more ‘specific’, or not ‘too vague’). 
Though again the text on the page titled ‘some explanation’ lays some foundations for what’s written on this page which aren’t mentioned on this page, it might be useful to outline here on this page some of the ideas outlined on the ‘some explanation’ page which a lot of what’s written on this page is logically founded on;  some of the reasons why this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge is intended to have the approach that it has (which might seem vague to some people), or some of the reasons why the approach which this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge has (which might seem vague to some people) might be useful for efforts to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways (and make all of that the priority of human society), are logically dependent on some other ideas which might initially seem unrelated to the question of whether or not this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge is too vague, but it might be useful or necessary to mention some of those ideas here (in order for those reasons to make sense), even if they initially seem unrelated, though again please read the ‘some explanation’ page of this site for more of those ideas which those reasons are logically founded on.  (Those ideas, or the ways they’re articulated, here and on the ‘some explanation’ page, might also seem vague to some people, but again there are various reasons why it could be useful for those ideas to be articulated in the ways they are on these pages, even if they sound vague to some people, though that will be covered separately).
There’s so much evidence (for example, documented in the field of positive psychology and in different areas of the social sciences, etc), to show that when people consume bigger amounts of and more types of resources than they/we need in order to survive or live, it doesn’t bring them/us well-being, happiness and fulfilment (or benefit them/us) anywhere nearly as effectively as behaving or living in ways like the mutually and interconnectedly beneficial ways which are outlined in the text of the ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge (i.e. living or behaving in ways which consist in benefiting or helping other people (or each other) as much as is potentially possible… in ways which can be empirically and rationally verified (as far as possible) to be the most effective ways (without benefiting any person, people or group(s) at the expense of any other person, people or group/groups (including themselves/ourselves), insofar as no one even instrumentally causes any suffering and injustice to anyone else, & so on) and forming the best human relationships, community and solidarity potentially possible… in those most effective ways (in harmony (as far as is potentially possible…) with the natural world (or the rest of it), as well as each other), or in uniting in diversity to (collectively) do as much as is potentially possible to collectively eliminate or fight (all the different causes of) suffering and injustice in the world and maximize benefit for everyone (or each other) in those most effective ways…), which, by definition, are most conducive to fighting all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximising benefit for everyone in the most effective ways, or which can be the most effective ways for all people to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for themselves/ourselves (or each other and everyone), again by definition; and there’s so much evidence (again for example, documented in the field of positive psychology and in different areas of the social sciences, etc), to show that when people consume bigger amounts of and more types of resources than they/we need in order to survive or live, it doesn’t benefit them/us effectively at all.  And peer-reviewed science clearly shows that when people consume (far) bigger amounts (and more types) of resources than they/we need in order to survive or live, it at least instrumentally irreversibly destroys the ecosystems and environments which humankind can’t survive without* (or which humankind can’t access enough food and fresh water, etc, without*), and at least instrumentally causes suffering and injustice to people in many other ways*.  There’s so much evidence that the amounts and types of resources which people need to consume in order to engage in ways of living and behaving like those most beneficial ways mentioned above (which are most conducive to fighting all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximising benefit for everyone in the most effective ways, and which can be the most effective ways for all people to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for themselves/ourselves, or each other and everyone), aren’t significantly different (in terms of any negative impact that consuming those amounts and types of resources has on people and the ecosystems and environments which humankind can’t survive without) than the amounts and types of resources which people need to consume in order to survive or live, by definition* (and those most beneficial ways of living and behaving, which consuming those amounts and types of resources enables people to potentially engage in, obviously also, by definition, have a positive impact on people and the ecosystems and environments which humankind can’t survive without, or benefits those in the most effective ways*). 
Obviously within the current structuring, many people have far bigger amounts of and far more types of resources than they need in order to survive or live, and only such comparatively small amounts of the resources accumulated in human society are made available for humankind to collectively use to find and implement the most effective ways to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone, and it should be stated that within the current structuring so many people (no matter how hard-working, intelligent, skilled or talented, etc, they are) are denied access to the resources which they cannot survive without; if people have far more resources than they need in order to survive or live, it can obviously give those people a greater opportunity to benefit or help other people (…) and fight suffering and injustice in the most effective ways (or to engage in some of those most mutually beneficial ways of living and behaving mentioned above) in the immediate future, as they can obviously make their excess resources (amounts and types of resources which they don’t need in order to survive or live) available for humankind (including those people who are denied access to the resources they can’t survive without) to collectively use to find and implement the most effective ways to maximise benefit for everyone (including themselves) and fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice, globally and in their own contexts, insofar as they don’t obstruct anyone else from doing the same (or they can make those excess resources available for other people to use to also engage in those most beneficial ways of living and behaving like those mentioned above); possibly the most effective ways for people to use their excess resources in order to benefit or help other people (or to engage in those most beneficial ways of living and behaving like those mentioned above, which can be the most effective ways for people to maximise benefit for themselves) can be to make those resources available as soon as possible for humankind (including those who are denied access to the resources they can’t survive without) to collectively use to find and implement the most effective ways to maximise benefit for everyone (including themselves) and fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice, globally and in their own contexts, insofar as they don’t obstruct anyone else from doing the same; and as engaging in those most beneficial ways of living and behaving like those mentioned above (like doing as much as possible to benefit or help other people…) can again be the most effective ways for people to maximise benefit for themselves, if people have more resources than they need in order to survive or live, in the immediate future those people therefore also have a greater opportunity to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for themselves; so, according to some of this argument, if people accumulate and possess far bigger amounts and more types of resources than they need in order to survive or live, it might seem to benefit them effectively as it means they can do more to benefit or help other people and can engage more in those other most beneficial ways of living and behaving like those mentioned above (in the immediate future), but because again possibly the most effective ways those people can use those excess resources (amounts and types of resources which they don’t need in order to survive or live) to fight suffering and injustice in the world and maximising benefit for people in the most effective ways (and therefore to maximise benefit for themselves, or to engage in those most beneficial ways of living and behaving like those mentioned above), is to make them available for humankind to collectively use to find and implement the most effective ways fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone as soon as possible (including by making them available for people who are denied access to the amounts and types of resources which they need in order to survive, to use participate in finding and implementing those most effective ways to maximise benefit for everyone (including themselves) in their own contexts and globally or to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in their own contexts and globally), if people continue to possess those excess amounts of resources (instead of making those resources available for all that) it obviously doesn’t benefit or help other people in the most effective ways (and so doesn’t constitute engaging in those most beneficial ways of living and behaving like those mentioned above) and so again it doesn’t effectively bring well-being, happiness and fulfilment to (or doesn’t effectively benefit) those people continuing to possess those excess resources; and if people are using their time and energy (etc) trying to accumulate more resources than they need to survive or live (so that they can then later make them available for humankind to collectively use to maximise benefit for everyone…), they’re obviously not using that time and energy (etc) to benefit or help others in the most effective ways, or to engage in those most beneficial ways of living and behaving (like those mentioned above), and so it again also doesn’t effectively bring well-being, happiness and fulfilment to (or doesn’t effectively benefit) those people trying to accumulate those excess resources; if all people are uniting in diversity to collectively find and implement the most effective ways to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone or each other (and make that the priority of human society), and if all people are making all the appropriate resources accumulated in human society (obviously including all the resources they’ve individually accumulated themselves) available for humankind to collectively use to find and implement the most effective ways to maximise benefit for everyone or each other (including themselves) and fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice, globally and in their own contexts, the amounts and types of resources which people need to accumulate and possess in order for people to do as much as possible to (or to maximise and maintain their ability, capacity or potential to) benefit or help other people in the most effective ways (or to engage in those most beneficial ways of living and behaving like those mentioned above) in the long term, again aren’t significantly different to the amounts and types of resources which people need in order to survive or live; and so again (again if all people are uniting in diversity to collectively find and implement the most effective ways to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone or each other (and make that the priority of human society), and if all people are making all the appropriate resources accumulated in human society (obviously including all the resources they’ve individually accumulated themselves) available for humankind to collectively use to find and implement the most effective ways to maximise benefit for everyone or each other (including themselves) and fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice, globally and in their own contexts), the amounts and types of resources people need to accumulate, possess or consume in order to maximise benefit for themselves/ourselves in the most effective ways (or to engage in those most beneficial ways of living and behaving mentioned above) therefore aren’t significantly different to the amounts and types of resources which they/we need in order to survive or live*.
Peer-reviewed science also shows that if people stop irreversibly destroying the ecosystems and environments which humankind can’t survive without, those ecosystems and environments can provide sufficient amounts and types of resources to sustain an even bigger human population than there is currently, or can potentially provide enough resources for an even bigger human population than there is currently to not only survive or live, but also to potentially engage in ways of living and behaving like those most beneficial ways mentioned above (which are most conducive to fighting all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximising benefit for everyone in the most effective ways, and which can be the most effective ways for all people to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for themselves/ourselves, or each other and everyone), insofar as no one even instrumentally obstructs anyone else from doing the same and no one consumes bigger amounts and more types of resources than they/we need to in order to live and behave in ways like those most beneficial ways mentioned above; so partly as a result of that, if people stop irreversibly destroying the ecosystems and environments which humankind can’t survive without (and as long as no one consumes bigger amounts and more types of resources than they/we need to in order to live and behave in ways like those most beneficial ways mentioned above), those ecosystems and environments can potentially provide sufficient amounts and types of resources for humankind to be able to effectively fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice which are caused or allowed within and by the current structuring of human society, or to at least to fight all those causes of suffering and injustice far more effectively than they are fought within the current structuring; or, also as a result of that, in a kind of structuring of human society which it’s potentially possible to create*, all people (including in an even bigger human population than there is today) could potentially obtain, access or get (from those ecosystems and environments) and consume all the resources which they/we need in order to survive or live and to engage in ways of living and behaving like those most beneficial ways mentioned above (which can be the most effective ways for all people to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for themselves/ourselves, or each other and everyone…) without irreversibly destroying the ecosystems and environments which humankind can’t survive without; or, in a kind of structuring of human society which it’s potentially possible to create*, there would potentially be no need for anyone (including in an even bigger population than there is currently) to irreversibly destroy the ecosystems and environments which humankind can’t survive without, in order to access and consume the resources they/we need in order to survive or live and to potentially engage in ways of living and behaving like those most beneficial ways mentioned above (which are most conducive to fighting all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximising benefit for everyone in the most effective ways, and which can be the most effective ways for all people to maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for themselves/ourselves, or each other and everyone…); in a kind of structuring of human society which it’s potentially possible to create*, humankind (including with an even bigger human population than there is today) could potentially obtain, access or get (from those ecosystems and environments) and consume all the amounts and types of resources which they/we need in order to effectively fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice which are caused or allowed within and by the current structuring of human society, without irreversibly destroying the ecosystems and environments which humankind can’t survive without (or, in a kind of structuring of human society which it’s potentially possible to create*, there would potentially be no need for humankind (including with an even bigger population than there is currently) to irreversibly destroy the ecosystems and environments which humankind can’t survive without, in order to access and consume the resources they/we need in order to effectively fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice which are caused or allowed within and by the current structuring of human society).  Within the current structuring of human society, so many people are obviously denied access to means though which all people could potentially obtain, access or get from those ecosystems and environments (without irreversibly destroying those ecosystems and environments) the amounts and types of resources which they/we need in order to be able to potentially engage in those most beneficial ways of living and behaving mentioned above; and it maybe can’t be proven that, with the amounts and types of resources already accumulated in human society (combined with amounts and types of resources which can be obtained, accessed or got from those ecosystems and environments (and consumed), without irreversibly destroying those ecosystems and environments), humankind can transform the structuring of human society in order to structure human society in a way that enables all people (including in an even bigger human population than there is currently) to collectively obtain, access or get from those ecosystems and environments (without irreversibly destroying those ecosystems and environments) the amounts and types of resources they/we need in order to engage in those most beneficial ways of living and behaving, but it obviously isn’t possible to prove that humankind can’t transform human society like that with the amounts and types of resources already accumulated in human society (combined with those other resources which can be obtained, accessed or got from those ecosystems and environments (and consumed) without irreversibly destroying the ecosystems and environments which humankind can’t survive without); or all the arguments that it’s not possible for humankind to transform human society like that (with those amounts and types of resources) are all arguments which cannot be proven.
It’s obviously a cause of suffering and injustice on a certain level of causation that so many people are denied access to the means though which all people could potentially obtain, access or get from those ecosystems and environments (without irreversibly destroying those ecosystems and environments) the amounts and types of resources which they/we need in order to be able to engage in those most beneficial ways of living and behaving mentioned above.  And an obvious problem with or in the current structuring of human society is that only such comparatively small amounts of the resources accumulated in human society are made available (within the current structuring) for humankind to collectively use to find and implement the most effective ways to fight all the causes of suffering and injustice in the world (including that particular cause of suffering and injustice) and maximise well-being happiness and fulfilment for everyone (or to benefit or help all the people who need help…*); and, linked with that, another obvious problem (or another cause of suffering and injustice on a certain level of causation*) with or in the current structuring is that people, or humankind collectively, can only use (within the current structuring) such comparatively small amounts of their/our energy and time* to collectively find and implement the most effective ways to fight the suffering and injustice in the world (including that particular cause of suffering and injustice) and maximise benefit for people/humankind, or to benefit or help all the people who need help…* (and both those problems with or in the current structuring are obviously caused by other problems with or in the current structuring (on more underlying levels of causation), which cause and allow so much suffering and injustice in so many other ways too).  Linked with more of what’s written above, if all the resources accumulated in human society (combined with the resources which can be obtained, accessed or got from those ecosystems and environments (and consumed) without irreversibly destroying those ecosystems and environments) are made available for humankind to collectively use primarily to find and implement the most effective ways to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world (which are caused and allowed within and by the current structuring) and maximise benefit for everyone (and make that the priority of human society), and if people, or humankind collectively, can use all their/our energy and time* primarily to collectively do all of that, it’s potentially possible for humankind to effectively fight ALL the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world which are caused and allowed within and by the current structuring* (or at least to fight all those different causes of suffering and injustice far more effectively than those are fought currently within the current structuring), and to effectively maximise benefit for everyone or effectively benefit or help ALL people in need (or at least to benefit or help all people in need far more effectively than people in need are benefited or helped within the current structuring); and again all the arguments that it’s not possible to eliminate all of the different causes of suffering and injustice (which result from human action or lack of possible human action, or which are caused and allowed within and by the current structuring…) and to maximise benefit for or help all people in need, are all arguments which cannot be proven, or which rely on premises which cannot be proven*; and again, if there’s even the smallest chance that it is possible for humankind to do that, surely we need to try?  Linked with those problems with or in the current structuring that are mentioned above, if certain people are using particular amounts or quantities of resources, energy and time to try and fight only one ‘specific’ cause (or only some ‘specific’ causes) of suffering and injustice (on relatively surface levels of causation*) within the current structuring, such as cancer or poverty in one area, there are obviously so many other ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice (that are caused and allowed within the current structuring) which:

   – are not being effectively fought within the current structuring (partly because only such comparatively small amounts of the resources accumulated in human society (…) are made available within the current structuring for humankind to collectively use to find and implement the most effective ways to fight the suffering and injustice in the world (to maximise benefit for everyone), and also partly because people, or humankind collectively, can only use within the current structuring such comparatively small amounts of their/our energy and time* to collectively find and implement the most effective ways to fight the suffering and injustice in the world to maximise benefit for people/humankind);

– could potentially all be effectively fought if all the resources accumulated in human society were made available for humankind to collectively use to find and implement the most effective ways to fight the suffering and injustice in the world (and maximise benefit for everyone), and if people, or humankind collectively, could use all their/our energy and time* primarily to collectively find and implement the most effective ways to fight the suffering and injustice in the world (to maximise benefit for everyone). 

Or, linked with those problems with or in the current structuring, if certain people are using particular amounts or quantities of resources, energy and time to try and benefit or help only one ‘specific’ person or group who needs help (possibly including themselves/ourselves) within the current structuring, there are so many other ‘specific’ people or groups in need of help (to different extents) who are not being benefited or helped effectively (enough, if at all) within the current structuring (at least partly because only such comparatively small amounts of the resources accumulated in human society (…) are made available within the current structuring for humankind to collectively use to find and implement the most effective ways to benefit or help people in need, and people, or humankind collectively, can only use within the current structuring such comparatively small amounts of their/our energy and time* to collectively find and implement the most effective ways to benefit or help people in need), and who could potentially all be effectively benefited or helped if all the resources accumulated in human society were made available for humankind to collectively use to find and implement the most effective ways to benefit or help people in need, and if people, or humankind collectively, could use all their/our energy and time* primarily to find and implement the most effective ways to help people in need.  If certain people are using particular amounts or quantities of resources, energy and time trying to fight only one ‘specific’ cause (or only some ‘specific’ causes) of suffering and injustice (on relatively surface levels of causation*) within the current structuring, or to benefit/help only one person or group within the current structuring, it obviously doesn’t sufficiently or significantly change the situation in the current structuring in which only such comparatively small amounts of the resources accumulated in human society are made available for humankind to collectively use to find and implement the most effective ways to fight the suffering and injustice in the world or to benefit/help people in need, and in which people, or humankind collectively, can only use such comparatively small amounts of their/our energy and time to find and implement the most effective ways to fight the suffering and injustice in the world or to benefit/help people in need (in comparison to the amounts that are needed in order to fight all the different ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice in the world and benefit/help all people in need in the most effective ways); or it doesn’t sufficiently or significantly increase the amounts of resources (accumulated in human society) that are made available (within the current structuring) for humankind to collectively use to find and implement the most effective ways to fight all the ‘specific’ causes suffering and injustice in the world and benefit/help all the ‘specific’ people (or groups of people) in need, and it doesn’t sufficiently or significantly increase the amounts of energy and time which people, or humankind collectively, can use to find and implement the most effective ways to fight all the ‘specific’ causes suffering and injustice in the world and help all the ‘specific’ people (or groups of people) in need (relative to the amounts of different ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice in the world and of ‘specific’ people in need).  At least partly because of those problems with or in the current structuring, if people are (or humankind is) only targeting ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice (on relatively surface levels of causation*), such as cancer or poverty (in some areas), within the current structuring, without effectively dealing with (to a sufficient extent) problems with or in the current structuring like those mentioned above, people are (or humankind is) only able to fight some ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice INSTEAD OF other ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice (on relatively surface levels of causation*) within the current structuring, and those other ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice are allowed to continue within the current structuring; when again humankind could potentially effectively fight all the ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice (that are caused and allowed within the current structuring) if all the resources accumulated in human society were made available for humankind to collectively use to find and implement the most effective ways to fight the suffering and injustice in the world, and if people, or humankind collectively, could use all their/our energy and time primarily to find and implement the most effective ways to fight the suffering and injustice in the world.  Or if people are trying to only benefit/help a ‘specific’ person or group of people in need of help (possibly including themselves/ourselves) within the current structuring, without effectively dealing with (to a sufficient extent) problems with or in the current structuring like those mentioned above, people are obviously only able to benefit/help a certain person or group INSTEAD OF other people or groups who may need help just as much, if not more (possibly including themselves/ourselves), and those other people are allowed to continue to suffer or die, or be killed, within the current structuring (when again humankind could potentially effectively help all the people in need (or all the people who are suffering as a result of problems caused and allowed within or by the current structuring) if all the resources accumulated in human society were made available for humankind to collectively use to find and implement the most effective ways to help people in need, and if people, or humankind collectively, could use all their/our energy and time primarily to find and implement the most effective ways to help people in need).  Obviously it’s totally necessary to fight ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice (on relatively surface levels of causation*), but it’s totally necessary to fight ALL the specific causes of suffering and injustice in the most effective ways as opposed to only fighting some INSTEAD OF others; and in order to fight ALL the ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice in the most effective ways (as opposed to only fighting some INSTEAD OF others), it’s obviously necessary to deal with or eliminate underlying problems with or in the current structuring of human society (like those mentioned above) which cause and allow so much suffering and injustice in so many ways* (including by causing only such comparatively small amounts of the resources accumulated in human society to be made available for humankind to collectively use to find and implement the most effective ways to fight the suffering and injustice in the world and maximise well-being happiness and fulfilment for everyone (or to help all the people who need help…*), and by causing people, or humankind collectively, to be only able to use such comparatively small amounts of their/our energy and time to find and implement the most effective ways to fight the suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for people/humankind, or to help all the people who need help…*).  Again it obviously also maybe can’t be proven that it’s possible to do that (and eliminate all the different ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice caused and allowed within and by the current structuring), but again if there’s even the smallest chance that it is possible, surely we need to try?  And due to those problems with or in the current structuring mentioned above, it obviously might not even be possible to fight many of those ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice (on relatively surface levels of causation) in the most effective ways within the current structuring (without dealing with those problems with or in the current structuring).  Also due to problems with or in the current structuring like those mentioned above, it can obviously be empirically and rationally verified that some action to fight certain ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice within the current structuring actually at least instrumentally creates or exacerbates other ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice*; and due to problems with or in the current structuring like those mentioned above, people or groups of people (including charities) who are trying to fight ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice, or are trying to help ‘specific’ people (or groups of people) in need (possibly including themselves/ourselves), are forced to compete with each other for the comparatively small amounts of resources (accumulated in human society) that are made available within the current structuring for humankind to collectively use to find and implement the most effective ways to fight the suffering and injustice in the world (or to help people in need), as well as to compete for the comparatively small amounts of energy and time that people, or humankind collectively, can use (within the current structuring) to find and implement the most effective ways to fight suffering and injustice in the world (or to help people in need).  As long as people are only targeting and fighting only those ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice (on relatively surface levels of causation*) within the current structuring of human society (without dealing with underlying problems in the current structuring like those mentioned above) we’ll obviously never get far enough in fighting all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world or in maximising benefit for everyone…*.  The situation within the current structuring is obviously much worse than the situation that’s described above, partly because of the many other problems with or in the current structuring, which cause the problems with or in the current structuring that are outlined above, and which cause and allow suffering and injustice in so many other ways*; partly because within the current structuring so many people are misled or coerced into believing that in order to maximise benefit for themselves they need to at least instrumentally harm or compete with other people or other groups (in many disguised ways as well as overt ways, and on macro levels (such as through global economic processes) as well as micro levels)*, and also partly because of many other problems in the current structuring which are interlinked with that*, so much more suffering and injustice is being caused (and allowed) nearly all the time within the current structuring, or so many more different ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice are being created or caused and allowed nearly all the time (and more suffering and injustice is being caused far more quickly than humankind is able to eliminate or effectively fight it within the current structuring, or so many more ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice are being created or caused far more quickly than humankind can eliminate or effectively fight them within the current structuring); and all of that obviously constitutes other reasons (on various different levels) why it’s not possible to get far enough or to fight all the different ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice (on relatively surface levels of causation) in the most effective ways if you’re only targeting those ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice without also addressing underlying problems with or in the current structuring (like those mentioned above); people who ask if this is ‘too vague’ or suggest you need to be ‘more specific’ sometimes make the argument that even if you’re going to try to fight all the ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice, you need to fight only one of those at a time, being ‘specific’ about which one you’re fighting each time, but what’s outlined above obviously also constitutes reasons (on various levels of causation) why it’s not possible to effectively fight all those different ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice (on relatively surface levels of causation) if you’re trying to eliminate only one of those at a time (as discrete problems in isolation from other ones), without dealing with underlying problems with or in the current structuring like those mentioned above.

To avoid any misunderstanding about something that the following analogy could seem to imply, it’s possibly important to clarify and emphasise first that this analogy isn’t meant to (or doesn’t necessarily) imply that no one facing suffering and injustice resists or fights the circumstances or forces that have forced them into suffering and injustice, or that all people facing suffering and injustice are passive; it’s just an analogy, for certain aspects of the current situation within the current structuring of human society, and it isn’t meant to represent the behaviour of all people facing suffering and injustice; though it doesn’t illustrate everything that’s written on this page, and doesn’t correlate with everything that’s written on this page, an obvious analogy for some of what’s written on this page is a version of a fairly well-known story that begins with you coming across a fast-flowing river which is carrying vast numbers of drowning people downstream.  You obviously try to rescue people from drowning in the river, and you see that there is a small group of other people who are also trying to save people from drowning.  You ask this group what’s going on, and they explain that the river never stops carrying drowning people down from upstream, and that because there are always so many drowning people being carried along by the river, and so few people trying to rescue them, it’s only possible to save a small number of them (and so many of the drowning people are carried past them by the river and inevitably drown and die).  And they say that they are so busy desperately trying to save as many of these drowning people as they can at that place by the river where they currently are, that they haven’t had time to go up the river to find out what is forcing these people into the river in the first place, and to try and get rid of whatever is forcing people into the river in the first place.  Not that far from the river, there are hundreds of other people who could potentially come and help, but the small group of people already by the river say that, again because they are so busy desperately trying to save as many of these drowning people as they can at that place by the river where they currently are, they haven’t had time to:

   – find out what is obstructing those hundreds of other people from coming to help save the drowning people;

   – get rid of whatever is obstructing those hundreds of other people from coming to help save the drowning people;

   – find out what is obstructing those hundreds of other people from making sure no one is forced into the river in the first place;

   – get rid of whatever is obstructing those hundreds of other people from making sure no one is forced into the river in the first place. 

If you and people in that small group continue to try to save drowning people at that specific place by the river where you currently are, you’ll continue to only ever be able to save a small number of the people drowning (and you have to decide which people to try and save INSTEAD OF others, while letting many other people drown and die).  But it would be possible to both go up the river to make sure no one is forced into the river in the first place, and to rescue all of the drowning people who’ve already been forced into the river but who haven’t been carried too far down the river, if those hundreds of other people who aren’t that far from the river were to come and help; though it’s clear that, even with those hundreds of other people helping, if you don’t get rid of what’s forcing people into the river in the first place, it won’t be possible to carry on rescuing all those drowning people in the river for that long, as too many people keep being forced into the river (and you’ll all run out of energy soon, and so on); unless you get rid of what’s forcing people into the river in the first place, in a while there’ll be too many drowning people in the river again for you to be able to rescue all of them, and you won’t be able to save all those people, or stop all those people from being killed.  (Again this analogy obviously doesn’t illustrate everything that’s written on this page, and doesn’t correlate with everything that’s written on this page, which itself again massively simplifies a lot of the issues written about here, but again hopefully the gist is clear enough).

Another aspect of why the situation in the current structuring is far worse than is described above (and another aspect of problems with or in the current structuring including particularly the last one mentioned above), is obviously that (as peer-reviewed science clearly shows) so many behaviours within the current structuring of human society are rapidly irreversibly destroying the ecosystems and environments which humankind can’t survive without*, and are irreversibly destroying the resources which people need in order to fight other ‘specific’ causes of human suffering and injustice; that ecocide will obviously exacerbate so many (if not all) other ‘specific’ causes of human suffering and injustice, and will cause so much worse human suffering and injustice (or even human extinction, following the extinction of up over a million of other species), or will cause so many more different causes of suffering and injustice (on certain levels of causation), unless we are able to end that ecocide quickly enough; it obviously won’t be possible to fight so many (or even all) other ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice in the most effectively ways within the current structuring (in order to maximise benefit for everyone…), unless that ecocide is ended.  And, linked with problems with or in the current structuring like those mentioned above, as long as only such comparatively small amounts of the resources accumulated in human society are made available for humankind to collectively use to find and implement the most effective ways to fight that ecocide (as well as other causes of human suffering and injustice) in order to maximise benefit for people/humankind, and as long as people, or humankind collectively, can only use such comparatively small amounts of their/our energy and time to find and implement the most effective ways to fight that ecocide (as well as other causes of human suffering and injustice) to maximise benefit for people/humankind, it obviously might not be possible to end that ecocide (in ways which maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways…); again linked with problems with problems with or in the current structuring like those mentioned above, as long as only such comparatively small numbers of people are (for different reasons*) able or free to collectively take all the different forms of action (as well as amounts of action…) which are needed in order for that ecocide to be ended (to maximise benefit for people/humankind), it obviously might not be possible to end that ecocide (in ways which maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways…); or, without dealing with problems with or in the current structuring including those mentioned above, it obviously might not be possible to end that ecocide.  And also the fact that those behaviours which cause that ecocide are so inextricably linked to and ingrained in the current structuring (or are caused and allowed within and by the current structuring, which also causes and allows those problems mentioned above…)*, is another reason why it might not be possible to end that ecocide if people only address it as a ‘specific’ cause of human suffering without also addressing problems with or in the current structuring like those mentioned above* (which are obviously linked to the underlying social structural, systemic and behavioural causes of all the other different ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice that are caused and allowed within and by the current structuring*); if people are fighting that ecocide as a ‘specific’ cause of human suffering and injustice within the current structuring without also addressing problems with or in the current structuring like those mentioned above, people are obviously again only able to fight that ecocide INSTEAD OF fighting other ‘specific’ causes of human suffering and injustice, and again it can obviously be empirically and rationally verified that, due to problems with or in the current structuring like those mentioned above, some action to fight ecocide within the current structuring actually can at least instrumentally create or exacerbate other causes of suffering and injustice*.  What’s outlined in this paragraph obviously constitutes some more reasons (on various levels of causation) why it’s not possible to get far enough if you’re only targeting ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice on relatively surface levels of causation (without also addressing problems with or in the current structuring (like those mentioned above); and (again as peer-reviewed science clearly shows) that ecocide and the behaviours which cause it (which are aspects of problems with or in the current structuring including particularly the last one mentioned above) are (and will be) obviously massively increasing the amounts by which the speeds at which more suffering and injustice are (and will be) caused, are (and will be) greater than the speeds at which humankind is (and will be) collectively able to eliminate or effectively fight suffering and injustice within the current structuring (or are (and will be) massively increasing the amounts by which the speeds at which more ‘specific’ causes suffering and injustice are (and will be) created, are (and will be) greater than the speeds at which humankind is (and will be) collectively able to eliminate or effectively fight ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice within the current structuring), unless we can end that ecocide and change those behaviours and that structuring fast enough; so what’s outlined in this paragraph also constitutes reasons (on various levels of causation) why it’s not possible to fight all those different ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice on relatively surface levels of causation in the most effective ways if you’re trying to eliminate only one of those at a time (as discrete problems in isolation from other ones), without dealing with underlying problems with or in the current structuring (including those mentioned above).

        If you’re using particular amounts or quantities of resources, energy and time to try to deal with or eliminate the problems with or in the current structuring like those mentioned above, and to change that structuring to make it the priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways, you’re obviously not able to use those particular amounts of resources, energy and time, to directly fight ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice on relatively surface levels of causation, which are still continuing while you’re doing that, and there are obviously kind of impossible decisions to make in all this; but ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice (on relatively surface levels of causation) are obviously symptoms of underlying social (including political, economic and ideological) structural, systemic and behavioural causes of suffering and injustice linked with problems mentioned above; and, for reasons like those outlined on this page, in order to fight as much suffering and injustice as possible in the long term, or to get far enough in fighting all the suffering and injustice in the world, people obviously need to end the underlying social structural, systemic and behavioural causes of suffering and injustice (instead of only targeting the symptoms of those underlying problems), or people obviously need to make the necessary social structural, systemic and behavioural changes to make it the priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways.  Again it obviously might not be possible to do that (and it maybe can’t be proven at the moment that it’s possible to do that), so if you’re using those amounts of resources, energy and time to try to do that, in the short term you might end up not effectively fighting as much suffering and injustice as you would have if you had used those amounts of resources, energy and time to target symptoms or ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice on relatively surface levels or causation (which is another reason why something like this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge has to just be something that works alongside action targeting specific causes of suffering and injustice*).  But there’s a chance that it might be possible to do that (again all the arguments that it’s not possible to do that are arguments which cannot be proven…), whereas again if people only target the symptoms or ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice on relatively surface levels or causation within the current structuring (without also dealing with the underlying structural, systemic and behavioural causes of suffering and injustice linked with problems mentioned above), there’s obviously no chance people will get far enough in fighting all the different causes of suffering and injustice*, and there’s possibly no chance that people will be able to stop the irreversible destruction of the ecosystems and environments which humankind can’t survive without, and which humankind needs in order to be able to fight other ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice in the most effective ways; so again far worse amounts of human suffering and injustice, or possibly even human extinction, according to peer-reviewed science, will be caused over a longer period of time (though still not that far into the future) if people don’t address the underlying structural, systemic and behavioural problems (like those mentioned above) with or in the current structuring.

In the terms of the analogy mentioned above (or continuing the analogy above), unless you go up the river to get rid of what’s forcing people into the river in the first place, in the near future what’s currently forcing people into the river upstream will come and force you and all other people into drowning in the river too.

        Some people who ask if this is too vague (who suggest that you should target only one ‘specific’ cause (or only some ‘specific’ causes) of suffering and injustice, often on surface levels of causation), also sometimes suggest that if you’re trying to fight suffering and injustice or to benefit or help people in need, you need to provide and prescribe ‘specific’ policies or ‘specific’ practical logistical steps to do that, but prescribing all the different ‘specific’ practical logistical steps that would be necessary to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways (and make that the priority of human society) all at once, would obviously take far too long for it to be an effective or useful step in itself, and it obviously might not be possible to prescribe all those steps anyway; again because there are obviously so many different causes of suffering and injustice on so many levels of causation (including underlying social structural, systemic and behavioural causes of suffering and injustice), which are so complex and varied, and because the underlying social structural, systemic and behavioural causes of suffering and injustice are so pervasive thoughout and engrained in nearly all aspects of human life and society (and are also so complex…), it’s probably only possible to get far enough in fighting all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximising benefit for everyone in the most effective ways (and making that the priority of human society) if pretty much all people unite and mobilise together to do that (taking all the necessary different forms of action, including those which address the massive inequality in the distribution of power within the current structuring*).  And partly because of the massive diversity and complexity of situations and cultures in the world, in order for all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world to be fought in the most effective ways and for benefit to be maximised for everyone in the most effective ways, all people obviously need to have self-determination and autonomy to empirically and rationally verify (as far as possible) what the most effective ways of maximising benefit for everyone and fighting all the different causes of suffering and injustice in their own situations are, insofar as no one obstructs anyone else’s self-determination and autonomy to do the same*, and insofar as all people are uniting in diversity globally to collectively find and implement the most effective ways to fight all the causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone (globally); and if one person or one comparatively small group (not consisting of everyone) prescribes or imposes all the ‘specific’ practical logistical steps to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways in all the different contexts and cultures in the world, that obviously goes against all people having self-determination and autonomy (to find the most effective ways of doing that) insofar as no one obstructs anyone else’s self-determination and autonomy to do that same, and therefore, by definition, those ‘specific’ practical logistical steps could not be the most effective; obviously no single ‘specific’ prescription of ‘specific’ practical logistical steps to do all of that (made by only one person or one comparatively small group) could be effective for all people in all the different contexts and cultures in the world*.  And again it obviously might not even be possible for one person or comparatively small group to learn all of that (and articulate it all at once) anyway, partly due to how different human cultures and situations are constantly flowing and changing (and even learning what all the different causes of suffering and injustice on all the levels of causation are (and then articulating what they are) could obviously take to too long for one person or one comparatively small group to do (for it to be a useful step), and might not even be possible).  Some of those people who ask if this is too vague, who accept (when asked about it) that there are far too many ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice to be effectively addressed in a prescription of ‘specific’ practical steps of that type (or to be effectively addressed and effectively fought by any one government or other organisation or group…), have said that what’s needed is just lots of those prescriptions for ‘specific’ practical steps to tackle ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice, and that’s obviously part of what this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge calls for and aims to help facilitate*; some of those people also accept (when asked about it) that within the current structuring, there obviously currently aren’t anywhere near enough of those ‘specific’ prescriptions of practical steps of that type being found and implemented, as would be necessary to tackle all the ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice in the world; they accept (when asked about it) that there are obviously so many more ‘specific’ causes of suffering and injustice in the world than are currently effectively fought with ‘specific’ prescriptions of practical steps of that type within the current structuring (partly because nowhere near enough of the resources accumulated in human society are made available for humankind to use to find and implement specific prescriptions of practical steps to fight specific causes of suffering and injustice, and so on), but they haven’t then given an answer about how all those different ‘specific’ prescriptions of practical steps (which would be necessary to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways) can or will be found and implemented within the current structuring (in which, for example, again only such comparatively small numbers of people are (for different reasons*) able or free to collaborate globally as well as locally to find and implement the most effective ways to collectively fight the suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for people/humankind (globally as well as locally), and in which there are so many other interlinked problems, like those mentioned above, that prevent enough from being done to fight suffering and injustice in the world and at least instrumentally cause suffering and injustice in so many other ways, and so on*); or those people haven’t then given an answer about what prescription of ‘specific’ practical steps of that type could deal with or eliminate all those interlinked problems with or in the current structuring which, for example, cause and allow only such comparatively small numbers of people to be (for different reasons*) able or free to collaborate globally as well as locally to find and implement the most effective ways to collectively fight the suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for people/humankind (globally as well as locally), and which at least instrumentally cause so much suffering and injustice in so many other ways; they haven’t then given an answer about how to bring about a situation in which all those different prescriptions of ‘specific’ practical steps (which would be necessary to fight all the different specific causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways) can or will be found and implemented.  Again this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge obviously isn’t a perfect idea and might not be the best way (or even an effective way) of addressing those problems with or in the current structuring, like those mentioned above, in order to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways (and make that the priority of human society), and if you have ideas about what could do that more effectively (which also address or deal with all the issues raised on the pages of this site…), obviously please get in touch; if there are more effective ways of doing that, this will obviously fully support those.  Some people who ask if this is ‘too vague’, also sometimes say in response to it things like ‘that’s not how it works’ or ‘that’s not how the world works’.  But one of the main problems (that needs to be dealt with in order for humankind to get far enough in fighting all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximising benefit for everyone in the most effective ways) is how ‘it’ currently ‘works’*, or how the world (or the current structuring of human society) currently ‘works’, functions or operates (and how methods of fighting suffering and injustice, which are publicised and promoted most (or which are mainly used) within the current structuring, currently ‘work’); the current structuring obviously doesn’t ‘work’ in terms of fighting all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximising benefit for everyone in the most effective ways*, or methods of fighting suffering and injustice, which are publicised and promoted most (or which are mainly used) within the current structuring, obviously don’t ‘work’ in terms of fighting all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximising benefit for everyone in the most effective ways*; again, experience of working within the confines of how ‘it’ currently ‘works’, is part of what has led to this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge*; again, while the means of fighting suffering and injustice which are publicised and promoted most within the current structuring of human society (linked with the levels or amounts of action to fight suffering and injustice within the current structuring), are and have been effective in some areas and ways according to some criteria, those types of action (linked with those levels or amounts of action), on their own:

        – obviously don’t effectively address the problems in the current structuring which cause and allow only such comparatively small numbers of people in the world to be (for different reasons*) able or free to collaborate globally as well as locally to collectively find and implement the most effective ways to overcome and eliminate or fight the suffering and injustice in the world (globally as well as locally) and maximise benefit for people/humankind (globally as well as locally), and only such comparatively small amounts of the resources accumulated in human society to be made available for humankind to collectively use to do all of that (so that those forms and amounts of action on their own obviously don’t effectively generate greater (enough) amounts of action to fight suffering and injustice in the world or maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways, and obviously don’t effectively generate enough action to do all of that, or don’t effectively make it the priority of human society to do all of that);

        – obviously don’t effectively stop so many people from behaving or living in ways which at least indirectly cause so much suffering and injustice, or obviously don’t effectively address or change other aspects of the current structuring (or particular systems, structures and behaviours (including ways of thinking and relating to people and the world) within the current overall structuring of human society) which cause so much suffering and injustice in so many other ways, and which obviously need to be overcome in order for humankind to get far enough in fighting all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximising benefit for everyone (in the most effective ways);

        – obviously aren’t sufficient to overcome and eliminate or fight even the current amounts of suffering and injustice in the world, let alone the far worse amounts of human suffering and injustice that will be caused (according to peer-reviewed science) by certain social structures, systems and behaviours within the current structuring which, for example, are irreversibly destroying the ecosystems and environments that humankind can’t survive without (unless far more action, and far more effective action, is taken to change those structures, systems and behaviours fast enough); 

        – probably aren’t sufficient to prevent those even worse amounts of (human) suffering and injustice (or even human extinction, following the extinction of as many as over a million other species) that will be caused (again according to peer-reviewed science) by those structures, systems and behaviours (which are irreversibly destroying the ecosystems and environments that humankind can’t survive without) unless far more action (and far more effective action) is taken to change those structures, systems and behaviours fast enough. 

Linked with how people, or humankind collectively, can only use within the current structuring such comparatively small amounts of their/our energy and time to find and implement the most effective ways to fight the suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for people/humankind, obviously the current structuring also drastically limits how much humankind collectively can apply or devote the incredible intelligence, ingenuity, imagination, creativity, skill and talent, etc, which humankind collectively has, to finding and implementing the most effective ways to collectively fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone; the mainstream and dominant discourses in the current structuring of human society are obviously so far away from where they would need to be to have the purpose of finding or empirically and rationally verifying (as far as possible) what the most effective ways to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone (and make that the priority of human society) are; the entire framework which the mainstream and dominant discourses take place in, are carried out in or are confined to (in the current structuring), is obviously so far away from where it would need to be in order for humankind to be able to collectively find the most effective ways to collectively fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone (and make that the priority of human society).  Even the mainstream and dominant discourses on how people should live and behave, and on fighting suffering and injustice in the world and maximising benefit for people, and the framework which those discourses take place in, are carried out in or are confined to (in the current structuring) are so far away from being focused on finding the most effective ways to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone (and make that the priority of human society).  Again this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge obviously might not be a most effective way to contribute to making space for people to find and implement the most effective ways to make the necessary changes to that framework and to the whole social (including political, economical and ideological) structuring of human society in order to make ‘it’ ‘work’ in ways which allow or enable all people to collectively fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways, but for explanation about some of the reasons why something like this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge could be useful for contributing to that, please see what’s written on the ‘some explanation’ page of this site, or if you want a bit more of an outline, the page titled ‘some more explanation’; and again, if you have ideas which could be more effective in doing all of that (and which address or deal with all the issues raised on the pages of this site), please get in touch to say what they are, and this will obviously fully support those.  Again it maybe can’t be proven at the moment that, with that incredible intelligence, ingenuity, imagination and creativity, etc, which humankind collectively has, it’s possible for humankind to collectively find and implement ways to make the changes to the social (including political, economical and ideological) structuring of human society which are necessary in order to make ‘it’ ‘work’ in ways which allow or enable all people to collectively fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways (or in order to make it the priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways); but again all the arguments that it’s not possible for humankind to do that (or all the arguments that the ways in which human society currently functions or operates can’t be changed, in order to make it the priority of human society to do that), are all arguments which rely on premises that can’t be proven, and again possibly the main or only thing that could guarantee in that sense that we wouldn’t be able to do that, would be if we didn’t even try, so again, surely we need to try?

*For more explanation of ideas around this, please see the ‘some explanation’ page on this site, or if you want more of an outline of more reasons why something like this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge could be useful for efforts to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise benefit for everyone in the most effective ways… (and make all of that the priority of human society…) than there is on that page, please see the page titled ‘some more explanation’ (the buttons to click on to see those pages are in the top-right corner of this website’s pages).

Thank you very much. 

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Please sign this ‘people unite’

declaration, petition & pledge

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address in the form just below),

& then please share it, if:

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 – you agree it should be the priority of human society to overcome and eliminate or fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world (including social structural, systemic and behavioural causes of suffering and injustice) and maximize well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways (in ways which can be empirically and rationally verified as far as possible to be the most effective), together with ensuring in the most effective ways (as they’re defined just above) that globally all people have self-determination and autonomy insofar as no one even indirectly obstructs anyone else’s self-determination and autonomy; and you call for all people to unite in diversity to collectively make all of that the priority of human society in the most effective ways (as they’re defined above), or to unite in diversity to collectively take the amounts and kinds of action and thought which can be verified (as described above) to be necessary in order for humankind to collectively do all of that, as much as is potentially possible (as much as can be verified (as described above) to be potentially possible), as soon as can be verified (as described above) to be potentially possible (and for as long as … possible), in the most effective ways…;

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 – you call for all people (including all groups of people) to acknowledge and act on the possibility that (as so much evidence shows) the most effective way for all people (including all groups of people) to (collectively) maximize well-being, happiness and fulfilment for themselves/ourselves, can (for many reasons) potentially be for all people (…) to live or behave in ways which consist in benefiting or helping other people (or each other) in the most effective ways (as they’re defined above) as much as is potentially possible… (including through not benefiting any person, people or group/groups at the expense of any other person, people or group/groups (including themselves/ourselves), insofar as no one even indirectly causes any suffering and injustice to anyone else, & so on) and forming the best human relationships, community and solidarity potentially possible… in the most effective ways… (including through ensuring (in the most effective ways…) that the ecosystems and environments which humankind can’t survive without aren’t irreversibly destroyed), or in uniting in diversity to (collectively) do as much as is potentially possible to collectively eliminate or fight (all the different causes of) suffering and injustice in the world and maximize benefit (or well-being, happiness and fulfilment) for everyone (or each other) in the most effective ways…; so you call for all people (including all groups of people) to therefore harness or channel their/our drives for well-being, happiness and fulfilment to motivate themselves/ourselves to live and behave in those ways or to unite in diversity to collectively take the amounts and kinds of action and thought which can be verified (as described above) to be necessary in order for humankind to collectively find and implement the most effective ways (…) to collectively overcome and eliminate or fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximize well-being, happiness and fulfilment (or maximize benefit) for everyone (or each other)…, as much as is potentially possible… (or to unite in diversity to collectively make all of that the priority of human society…), taking into account that in order for benefit to be maximized for everyone in the most effective ways…, people’s primary intention in benefiting other people possibly can’t be to benefit themselves/ourselves, but possibly always needs to be to benefit other people in the most effective ways…, with any benefit to themselves/ourselves only being intended to be a secondary by-product; and as part of that, because the purpose of the steps implicitly suggested in the rest of this ‘people unite’ declaration, petition and pledge is obviously to help bring about a situation in which all people (including all groups of people) can unite in diversity to make it the priority of human society to overcome and eliminate or fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximise well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in the most effective ways…, you call for all people (…) to possibly harness or channel their/our drives for well-being, happiness and fulfilment to motivate themselves/ourselves to collectively take those steps;

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 – you call for all people to (as much as possible…, globally and locally) work together to empirically and rationally verify (as far as possible…) what those most effective ways to collectively overcome and eliminate or fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximize benefit for everyone or each other… (and make all of that the priority of human society…) are (and you call for all people to (as much as possible…) work together to (for example) fully actualize their/our potentials for reflexivity, rationality, and critical, creative and holistic thinking in order to do that, alongside calling for all people to (as much as possible…) work together to (for example) seek out, be open to, and critically/rationally examine/question all the evidence (including evidence about social structural, systemic and behavioural causes of suffering and injustice, and side effects of actions or behaviours) that’s necessary for doing that (collectively verifying, as described above, how necessary different evidence is for doing that in different situations, as well as verifying the evidence itself as described above, and checking for bias, & so on), and to subsequently collectively take into account all the evidence that can be verified (as described above) to be necessary to take into account in order to do that, & so on);
   – you (obviously following on from or linked with that) call for all people to (as much as possible…) work together to (or collectively) take the amounts and kinds of action which all people (as much as possible…) can collectively verify (as described above) to be necessary in order for humankind to collectively implement (as well as find, as described above) those most effective ways to collectively fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximize benefit for everyone or each other… (and make all of that the priority of human society…);

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 – you call for all people to collectively ensure in the most effective ways (…) that globally all people (or each other) have autonomy to collectively verify empirically and rationally (as far as possible) what those most effective ways to collectively maximize benefit for everyone or each other (including themselves/ourselves) and fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice…, in their/our own (local) situations, are, as well as what the most effective ways of implementing those most effective ways of doing all of that…, in their/our own (local) situations, are (together with autonomy to collectively implement those most effective ways of doing all of that…, & so on), insofar as no one even indirectly obstructs anyone else’s autonomy to do the same, and insofar as all people are also uniting in diversity globally to collectively take the amounts and kinds of action and thought which can be collectively and autonomously verified (as described above) by all people (again as far as possible) to be necessary in order for humankind to collectively find and implement those most effective ways to collectively fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximize benefit for everyone or each other globally…, or to collectively make all of that the priority of human society… (acknowledging and acting on how, by definition, in order for ways of doing all of that… to be those most effective ways of doing all of that… in any situations, those ways need to be ones which don’t cause any suffering and injustice to any other person, people or group(s) even indirectly, or which don’t obstruct anyone else (even indirectly) from living or behaving in ways that consist in maximizing benefit for everyone or each other (including themselves/ourselves) in the most effective ways…, insofar as no one (else) even indirectly causes any suffering and injustice to anyone else, & so on);
   – you call for all people to collectively ensure in the most effective ways (…) that globally all people (or each other) have enough power and resources to collectively take the amounts and kinds of action and thought which can be verified (as described above) to be necessary in order for all people to collectively and autonomously find and implement those most effective ways to collectively maximize benefit for everyone or each other (including themselves/ourselves) and fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice…, both in their/our own (local) situations and globally (and make all of that the priority of human society…), as much as it’s potentially possible for them/us to, or as much as it can be verified (as described above) to be potentially possible for them/us to (insofar as no one even indirectly obstructs anyone else’s autonomy to do all of that… (or even indirectly causes any suffering and injustice to anyone else), & so on), again for as long as can be verified (as described above) to be potentially possible, including by ensuring (in the most effective ways…) that the ecosystems and environments which humankind can’t survive without aren’t irreversibly destroyed;
     – you call for all people to use or manage all the power and resources (as well as all the intelligence, ingenuity, imagination, creativity, skill, talent, time and energy, etc) which they/we have, in those ways which can be verified (as described above) to be the most effective ways (…) to collectively maximize benefit for everyone or each other (including themselves/ourselves) and fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice (again as well as collectively ensure that globally all people have self-determination and autonomy insofar as no one even indirectly obstructs anyone else’s self-determination and autonomy), both in their/our own (local) situations and globally (and make all of that the priority of human society…), again for as long as can be verified (as described above) to be potentially possible, again including by ensuring (in the most effective ways…) that the ecosystems and environments which humankind can’t survive without aren’t irreversibly destroyed;

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 – you call for all people, and in particular all people or groups who can be verified (as described above) to have the most control over any (controllable) influences which (can be verified, as described above, to) have the most influence on the most people’s thought, behaviour, values, aspirations and consciousness (including mass media and mass education systems), to collectively ensure in the most effective ways (…) that all people (or each other) have freedom of speech or expression (with egalitarian access to the control of all those types of influences and all other controllable influences) insofar as no one obstructs the same freedoms of anyone else, & so on;
   – you (partly to ensure… all people have that freedom of speech or expression (with egalitarian access to the control of all those types of influences and all other controllable influences) insofar as no one obstructs the same freedoms of anyone else…), also call for all people (and in particular all those people or groups who can be verified (as described above) to have the most control over any of those types of influences) to collectively ensure in the most effective ways (…) that all people (or each other) are motivated enough to unite in diversity to collectively find and implement those most effective ways to collectively overcome and eliminate or fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximize benefit for everyone or each other… (i.e. ensure… that all people… are motivated enough (to collectively do all of that…) for all people to actually collectively do all of that…), possibly including by collectively exposing and publicizing to a sufficient extent to all people or each other (or collectively ensuring in the most effective ways (…) that all people or each other have enough consciousness of) things such as:

• how much suffering and injustice can be empirically and rationally verified (as far as possible) to be caused (even indirectly) and allowed within and by the current social structuring (including political, economic and ideological structuring) of human society globally, and how that suffering and injustice is (or can be verified (as described above) to be) caused (even indirectly) and allowed within and by the current structuring;

• how all the arguments that humankind can’t collectively overcome and eliminate all that suffering and injustice (which can be verified (as described above) to be caused (even indirectly) and allowed within and by the current social structuring of human society), in order to maximize benefit for everyone or each other in those most effective ways…, are arguments which can’t be proven (or which rely on premises that can’t be proven); or how all the arguments that humankind can’t collectively overcome and eliminate all the social structural, systemic and behavioural causes of suffering and injustice in the world, and collectively change the current social structuring of human society to make it the priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximize benefit for everyone in those most effective ways…, are arguments which can’t be proven (…);

• how living or behaving in ways which consist in uniting in diversity to collectively take the amounts and kinds of action and thought which can be verified (as described above) to be necessary in order for humankind to collectively fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximize benefit for everyone or each other in those most effective ways… (or in order for humankind to collectively make all of that the priority of human society…), can obviously potentially be the most effective way for all people (including all groups of people) to (collectively) maximize well-being, happiness and fulfilment for themselves/ourselves or each other, as again so much evidence also shows (and how doing all of that… is also conducive to ensuring all people have freedom of speech or expression, with egalitarian access to the control of all of those types of influences, insofar as no one obstructs the same freedoms of anyone else);

• which social structures, systems and behaviours (within the current overall social structuring of human society) can be verified (as described above) to even indirectly cause or allow suffering and injustice (primarily which social structures, systems and behaviours can be verified (as described above) to cause (even indirectly) or allow the most suffering and injustice), as well as how those social structures, systems and behaviours even indirectly cause or allow suffering and injustice, or can be verified (as described above) to even indirectly cause or allow suffering and injustice (with all people having freedom of speech or expression (and egalitarian access to the control of all those influences) to expose and publicize all that to a sufficient extent, insofar as no one obstructs anyone else’s freedoms to do the same);

• which social structural, systemic and behavioural causes of suffering and injustice can be verified (as described above) to be the particular types of causes of suffering and injustice which humankind needs to overcome and eliminate in order for humankind to be able to collectively fight all the other different causes of suffering and injustice in the world (and maximize benefit for everyone or each other) in the most effective ways…, or in order for humankind to be able to collectively overcome and eliminate as much suffering and injustice as it can be verified (as described above) to be potentially possible to (and maximize benefit for everyone as much as is potentially possible…) in the most effective ways… (again with all people having freedom of speech or expression (and egalitarian access to the control of all those influences) to expose and publicize to a sufficient extent which causes of suffering and injustice can be verified (as described above) to be causes of suffering and injustice of that particular type, insofar as no one obstructs anyone else’s freedoms to do the same);

• how so much worse human suffering and injustice, and even human extinction (following the extinction of possibly over a million of other species), will, according to peer-reviewed science, be caused by certain social structures, systems and behaviours within the current overall social structuring of human society due to how they are irreversibly destroying the ecosystems and environments which humankind can’t survive without, as well as how quickly that far worse human suffering and injustice (or even human extinction) will be caused, unless people can overcome and eliminate those social structures, systems and behaviours fast enough (or how little time people have left to overcome and eliminate those social structures, systems and behaviours to save those ecosystems and environments which humankind can’t survive without), again all according to peer-reviewed science;

• which social structures, systems and behaviours within the current overall social structuring of human society will, according to peer-reviewed science, cause that far worse human suffering and injustice, and even human extinction (unless people can overcome and eliminate those social structures, systems and behaviours fast enough), as well as how much suffering and injustice those social structures, systems and behaviours are causing already (and have caused) in many areas of the world (along with how those social structures, systems and behaviours will cause that far worse human suffering and injustice, and even human extinction (unless people can overcome and eliminate them fast enough), and how they are already causing all the suffering and injustice they are already causing), again all according to peer-reviewed science;

• the amounts and kinds of action and thought which it’s (or which it can be collectively and autonomously verified (as described above) by all people (as much as possible…) to be) necessary for humankind to collectively take in order for humankind to collectively fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice (primarily social structures, systems and behaviours which can be verified (as described above) to cause (even indirectly) or allow the most suffering and injustice, or to be the particular types of causes of suffering and injustice mentioned above) in the world and maximize benefit for everyone or each other in those most effective ways… (again including ensuring in the most effective ways (…) that globally all people have self-determination and autonomy insofar as no one even indirectly obstructs anyone else’s self-determination and autonomy) as much as can be verified (as described above) to be potentially possible… (or in order for humankind to make all of that the priority of human society…);

• ways which any people in any of the different situations in the world can verify (as described above) to be the most effective ways (according to how they’re defined, and later elaborated on, above) to fight causes of suffering and injustice (primarily social structures, systems and behaviours which can be verified (as described above) to cause (even indirectly) or allow the most suffering and injustice, or to be the particular types of causes of suffering and injustice mentioned above) and to maximize benefit for everyone or each other, in situations they/we are in (again without even indirectly causing any suffering and injustice to any (other) people, insofar as no one (else) even indirectly causes suffering and injustice to any (other) people, & so on); while again still ensuring in the most effective ways (…) that globally all people have self-determination and autonomy (to verify (as described above) if those ways are also the most effective in their/our own (local) situations, if those ways need to be adapted for their/our own (local) situations, or if other ways are the most effective in their/our own (local) situations, & so on) insofar as no one even indirectly obstructs anyone else’s self-determination and autonomy (to do the same), and insofar as all people are uniting in diversity globally to collectively take the amounts and kinds of action and thought which can be verified (as described above) to be necessary in order for humankind to collectively find and implement those most effective ways to collectively fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximize benefit for everyone (or each other) globally… (and make all of that the priority of human society…);

• how many (other) people agree it should be the priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximize benefit for everyone in those most effective ways…, how many (other) people call for all people to unite in diversity to do all of that…, and how many (other) pledge to do as much as is potentially possible to do all of that…;

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 – you (again partly also to ensure all people have that freedom of speech or expression, with egalitarian access to the control of all of those types of influences mentioned above (including mass media and mass education systems), insofar as no one obstructs the same freedoms of anyone else) also call for all people, and in particular all those people or groups who can be verified (as described above) to have the most control over any of those types of influences, to collectively make (in the most effective ways…) enough space(s) for all people to be able to (and social environments which enable all people to) collectively and autonomously verify (as described above) what those most effective ways to collectively maximize benefit for everyone or each other (including themselves/ourselves) and fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice…, both in their/our own (local) situations and globally (and make all of that the priority of human society…) are, as well as what the most effective ways of autonomously and collectively implementing those most effective ways of doing all of that… are, & so on, insofar as no one even indirectly obstructs anyone else from doing the same, & so on;

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 – you pledge to take the amounts and kinds of action and thought which can be empirically and rationally verified (as far as possible) to be necessary in order for you to contribute to fighting the suffering and injustice in the world and maximizing benefit for people/humankind (including by contributing to ensuring that the ecosystems and environments which humankind cannot survive with out aren’t irreversibly destroyed) in the most effective ways (…) as much as it’s potentially possible for you to (or as much as it can be verified (as described above) to be potentially possible for you to)…;
   – you (linking with that) pledge to take the amounts and kinds of action and thought which can be verified (as described above) to be necessary in order for you to contribute in the most effective ways (…), as much as it’s (or as much as it can be verified (as described above) to be) potentially possible for you to contribute, to making it the priority of human society to fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximize well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in those most effective ways…;
     – you call for all people to also take the amounts and kinds of action and thought which can be verified (as described above) to be necessary in order for them/us to do all that as much as it’s (or as much as it can be verified (as described above) to be) potentially possible for them/us to…, together with you and all other people;

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 – you (partly as this ‘people unite’ declaration, pledge and petition is obviously far from perfect) call for all people to collectively find and implement the/those most effective ways (…) to call for all people or each other to unite in diversity to collectively make it the priority of human society to overcome and eliminate or fight all the different causes of suffering and injustice in the world and maximize well-being, happiness and fulfilment for everyone in those most effective ways, together with ensuring in the most effective ways (…) that globally all people have self-determination and autonomy insofar as no one even indirectly obstructs anyone else’s self-determination and autonomy…

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