The following reports, some written before the founding of Our Task, relate to the OT mission and research, and many have been cited in our work. Majority of this work’s credit goes to Dr. Barney.
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“Incorporating Environment into Governance and National Planning.” We need a global system of collecting every country’s national development models and integrating them to understand the global consequences of their combined national plans. In this way, perhaps we can change the paradigm of inter-nation relations from competition to cooperation. The Threshold 21 model was designed with this ultimate objective in mind.
“Ecological Security: A ‘More Imaginative’ Response Involving Youth.“ This paper, presented at the 2006 International Student/Young Pugwash (ISYP) meeting, supports Pugwash action (the ‘resolutique’) to address the global ‘problematique’. It outlines the ‘problematique’ (a severe cultural disorder) and sketches a possible ‘resolutique’ based on coordinated collaboration among the world’s largest culture shaping establishments and global advocacy by today’s youth. The related Our Task work is described.
“Finding a Path to the Ecozoic Era.” This paper, published in 2007 in The Ecozoic Reader, speculates on how humans might reach the “ecozoic era” — the era envisioned by Thomas Berry when a mutually enhancing relationship between humans and Earth has been achieved. Our Task was created and designed to help humans reach the ecozoic era.
The Global 2000 Report to the President of the USA (Global 2000 Vol. 1 (1MB) and Global 2000 Vol. 2 (18MB)) is the first and only global environmental/developmental study prepared by a country for its president (President Jimmy Carter). Like the Youth Earth Plan, Global 2000 is based on the integration of a number of sector-specific projections, such as food, energy, population, and environment.
Global 2000 Revisited addresses many of the same issues as the original Global 2000 report, but for the 8000 spiritual leaders attending the 1993 Parliament of the World’s Religions.
“Global 2000 Revisited: What Shall We Do?“ This speech by Dr. Gerald O. Barney to the 8,000 persons attending the 1993 Parliament of the World’s Religions in Chicago, provides a summary of the issues in Global 2000 Revisited. It is addressed specifically to the religious and spiritual leaders attending the Parliament from over 200 religions. It also addresses questions to the spiritual leaders. The speech received a standing ovation.
