15th December 2023, Tunis/Tunisia  -  Wishes 94 / 95 / 96

In the name of Peace and Justice.

I have three wishes today, which I present to you in the name of Peace and Justice - in the hope they may be fulfilled.

The survival and well-being of humanity depends foremost on the availability of drinking water and food. Is this availability of water and food guaranteed right now?

The world over, people speak of more and more threatening shortages of freshwater, both for human consumption as for livestock and agriculture. At the same time, we are worried about rising sea levels due to global warming.

We have the technology to turn seawater into fresh water. So, let's use this technology to produce an abundance of fresh, healthy, tasty drinking water - in great abundance.

My wish is that humanity produce huge rivers of fresh water the world over, everywhere, in abundance, abundance, abundance. Never, anywhere, shall there be any fear that clean fresh water might one day be lacking.

When it comes to food security, more and more land is being used for agriculture, and yet hundreds of millions of people go hungry every day, with food prices exploding to unaffordable levels in many countries, Worse still, the global food reserves (meant as a safeguard for natural disasters and emergencies, both on a national and global scale), are dwindling at an alarming rate - soon we might face a situation where there is no safety of food availability any more at all, globally.

Obviously, something is going very wrong here.

My wish is that drastic changes be made in the field of food production and security, on a worldwide scale:

• Large portions of agricultural land now used for livestock (grazing land and animal feed production, which make up almost 80 percent of total agricultural land) be turned into cropland for the cultivation of staple food, such as rice, wheat, maize, potatoes, yams, lentils, beans, and so on. The reason being that livestock supplies only a rather small proportion of human needs for proteins and calories. Land for livestock should not exceed 50 % of total agricultural land available, anywhere in the world.

• Meat and dairy should be taxed very heavily, by at least ten percent of the average price per kg in each country, for the benefit of a UN program to increase food production and reserves worldwide.

• Of this surplus crop, ten percent should go into UN controlled reserves, strategically dispersed throughout the world. The aim must be to build up global food reserves to cover the needs for a minimum of ten months.

We want to live and survive in a clean, healthy environment. Which basically means: we want and we need clean air, clean land, clean water. And this is my third wish for today.

Despite great efforts in some countries to keep our air clean, global air pollution keeps getting worse - effecting not only the people living in the country that causes the pollution, but bringing bad health and premature death to countries all round the world, as air knows no borders.

Land pollution is rampant throughout the world. People carelessly drop their trash on the ground - cigarette buts, pieces of paper, food wrappings, anything - probably thinking that, somehow, somebody will pick it up for them - or probably not thinking anything at all. Toxic industrial waste is being shipped by criminal gangs from one irresponsible country to some other impoverished corrupt country where it's disposed of by simply being thrown into the sea or dumped anywhere in a most careless way. The list is endless and disheartening.

We don't want any pollution, of any kind, neither on land, nor in the air, nor in any water. We want a clean environment, for us, for our children, for our children's children.

Such are my three wishes for today, which I present to you in the name of Peace and Justice, in the hope they may be fulfilled.

In the name of Peace and Justice, thank you!