Wirtschaftsblatt - ca. 10/12/2003
Can the world still be saved?
Sir Peter Ustinov, Reinhold Messner, Almaz Böhm, and others call for a global Marshall Plan in their "Stuttgart Declaration"
Stuttgart. "We are waging a merciless war against our children and grandchildren, against coming generations. We will leave them a devastated world in which life will be very hard. Yet as they cannot fight back, we continue with this; we cannot even help it anymore," Michael Ende drew a dark image of our society already decades ago.
A nonpartisan group however proposes that we can, demanding the establishment of a global Marshall Plan in their "Stuttgart Decleration"—including among others the SPD politician and scientist Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker, former president of the Federal Parliament Rita Süssmuth (CDU), former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson, UNESCO Embassadress Ute-Henriette Ohoven, the mountaineer Reinhold Messner, Club of Budapest president Ervin Laszlo, and the journalist Franz Alt. Also Karlheinz Böhm, founder of Menschen für Menschen, and Sir Peter Ustinov support the initiative.
Europe shall place itself at the head of a worldwide development plan. The “Stuttgart Declaration†calls for the establishment of an EU advisory board for the development and implementation of the plan.
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Translated by the Coordination Office, Global Marshall Plan Initiative.
