"Design Me a Planet is
not utopia: it is the most concrete reality - the
reality-in-construction. We need to design our planet, our planetary
civilization. This was a hopelessly utopian task until even a few
decades ago. It is no longer that today. Now it is realistic, urgent -
and absolutely necessary. It is realistic because there is a new world
to be designed, from the ground up. The old one is passing into
history, and there is space, a unique opportunity, for the new. It is
urgent because there is no time to waste. The old world will break down
in a matter of five to fifteen years and either we are ready to place a
new world in its place, or our entire civilization will suffer, and the
human species as a whole will be endangered. This is the emerging
necessity today: to design the planet we want to, and can, live on. The
world we can leave to our children and their children. We all need to
be part of the construction team. Design Me a Planet is a project that
has the mission to come up with the basic blueprint.
It is up to all of us to use the
blueprint not as dogma and commandment, but as orientation for our own
creativity, our own motivation, or own will to join together and build a
planet that comes up to the finest design we can come up for it.
I wish this project the great success that it deserves." -- Ervin Laszlo