Third, and last, to reconceptualize and redirect the relations between nations so as to foster these institutions and discharge these obligations. Getting from where we are to transparent sovereignty in the commonwealth of life will be a long road. Hence, setting our foot along that road will take courage. We must not be content with marginal adjustments. We must hold ourselves and our institutions to unfamiliar, but not unknown, fiduciary standards.
Time is of the essence.
We must move with all deliberate speed. I seek not so much to convince those who do not weep at the tragedies we have brought upon ourselves and the rest of life with whom we share this planet. Rather my goal is to make manifest to those who are saddened that there is an alternative way of thinking about the future. There are those who can live with the status quo, and those who cannot. This book is written for those who cannot.