UN General Assembly
2010

Walt Whitman said, referring to all human beings, to all other beings on Earth and to the Earth itself, “every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you” (Song of Myself). We are made of the same atoms, which we share. We come from dust, we whirl around for some time and then we return to dust, to our Pacha Mama, to Mother Nature. But she has been abused and disrespected. Even so, in her agony, she is still generous. Rabindranath Tagore said that the Earth has been insulted and reviled, but in return offers her flowers and her fruits. I call on Member States, our brother countries, to share this revolutionary vision, to find peace and to make it everlasting, to change the history of the invaded, the polluted, the humiliated and the forgotten of the Earth. Let us create an army of warriors that carry no weapons on their shoulders or ammunition in their packs, but whose weapons are ecology, medicine, the defence of human rights and human solidarity, an army