Recently Mark Townsend and Jason Burke published a paper in The Observer entitled: Earth 'will expire by 2050'. Wouldn't it be wonderful not only to report about the problem, but also about the solution, which is painless, gradual and has only to be made public. It (the solution) is described in the book: The World Solution for World Problems. The book (ISBN 90-9002592-8) is available as hard copy at the Library of Congress, Washington DC, and at the Library of Princeton University, Princeton NJ. However, it is also available as an electronic book (http//baserv.uci.kun.nl/~adv/leonbook/leonbook.html).

Firtsly, the book discusses the main world problem of today, which is the gradual, but lethal change of the soil and atmosphere. The problem is also recently be described in a study by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), which has been released last Tuesday. The authors of the WWF report warn that the human race is plundering the planet at a pace that outstrips its capacity to support life. Secondly the book discusses the main cause, which is the worldwide overpopulation, and, finally, it discusses the main solution, which is world government by lottocracy. The latter is necessary to enforce a 'one child per couple per life' policy for ALL people. This, until the load is lifted from nature, which is roughly the case when the world population is about the size of seven million instead of seven billion, as it is now. An answer to the question: why the number of seven million, is given in the chapter: Population. However, the number of seven million can also be justified as follows. If one agrees that every earth citizen has a right for one square mile to live on and to live from, then there is land available on earth for about seven million people. Every landlord considers it obvious to possess even more then a square mile and do we not all want to be landlords? The 'one child per couple policy for ALL people' is only workable when indeed ALL people agree to it, not, as it is in China now, enforced from above. This is only possible with a world government by lottocracy. According to the author lottocracy is the only obvious, and the only fair way of attaining world government.

The idea of lottocracy is shortly described at the end of the chapter: Democracy and Things. According to the author it is a logical, fair, and scientific way to form a world government. All citizens are put into a file of a computer, the computer produces two citizens at random every day, out of the group of say, 45 year olds, and they are the conscripts for a year, starting that very day. In another book of the same author, called Tao Stoics, also available as electronic book (http//baserv.uci.kun.nl/~adv/taostoa/taostoa.html), the author suggests three persons instaed of two (see Tao Stoic 200). The selected ones are conscripts in the service of mankind, and their service of one year, includes three months for instruction in procedures, and in understanding scientists. Scientists are needed for advise. When they govern, they know hardly a thing about the matter in hand but they have a conscience and the advise of scientists, to make proper decisisons. Then, their office is right on the campus of a scientific establishment, so they can get all the advice necessary, and fast. Every day two (or three) join up, every day two (or three) are just finished. They need not stay on for the finishing of a job, they can just go. They are located all over the globe, they cannot therefore become a group or party with interests of their own, but are electronically linked up. There is no, absolutely no, secrecy and they are solely interested in the well-being of mankind, in man's rights & duties, in human dignity. In this way they are just co-operatives. The concept of lottocracy is described in more detail in the chapter: A Concept for Government (see also http//baserv.uci.kun.nl/~adv/lottocracy.html).

The principle of lottocracy can be used on the level of cities, of hemispheres, and, of course, for the whole planet. It is a recipe for the solution of the one and only problem that is facing mankind, which is his own extermination by his own hands. It is argued that world problems ask for world solutions and that this is solely a question of re-education. All man-made problems are ideational (and number dependent), not physical, thus, an ideational (educative) solution is required. It is furthermore held forth that the partial solutions one hears of, such as the recycling of raw materials, the use of clean energy, the purification of waste water, etc., are no solutions at all, but, in the long run, make the problem even worse. Additionally, it is contended, that, the integration of all world citizens should be enhanced by the introduction of the world-language, which is English, the mostly spoken second language today.