World leaders at the United Nations Summit have officially adopted the so-called “Pact for the Future,” an agreement that is largely aimed at solving the world’s most pressing problems.
However, beneath these glossy promises lies a dangerous movement toward centralized, top-down control that could have devastating consequences for individual freedom, national sovereignty, and democratic governance.
The pact, hailed by the UN Secretary-General as a “vision for the future,” includes initiatives like the Global Digital Compact and the Future Generations Declaration.
But to many, it sounded more like a manifesto for a totalitarian government than a collaborative effort to improve international cooperation. This grandiose pact is marketed as a solution to tomorrow’s problems, but critics are rightly alarmed by its troubling implications.
One user wrote, “This international order is irredeemable and has destructive aspirations. What it offers is global technocratic totalitarianism. We must reject this with everything in us !! Sic semper tyrannis!!”
This international order is irredeemably corrupt and has destructive aspirations. What they offer is a global technocrat totalitarianism. We must resist this with everything within us!!
Sic semper tyrannis!!#our communist future
— John-Paul Berg (@SemperVeritasX) September 22, 2024
Another wrote, “The Pact for the Future has been adopted. More UN bureaucracy, more international funds to maintain, more global summits, more climate policies and more genderism. Less sovereignty, less efficiency. Instead of focusing on peace, the UN is pushing the world to the false hope of a “global government” heaven.
The Pact for the Future has been adopted.
More UN bureaucracy, more international funds to maintain, more global summits, more climate policy and more genderism.
Less sovereignty, less efficiency.
Instead of focusing on peace, the UN is pushing the world into false hope…
— Jerzy Kwasniewski (@jerzKwasniewski) September 22, 2024
Another comment, Pact for the future is a pact for slaves, removing borders, destroying sovereignty, giving everything to the 1% of the world. The UN is the most dangerous organization on earth and people should call on their countries to leave and dismantle the UN.
A pact for the future is a treaty
slave
remove the border
destroy sovereignty
give everything to 1% of the worldThe UN is the most dangerous organization on earth and people should demand their countries to abolish and dismantle the UN
— JBA Meet me in the extreme Middle of evil (@AdlerJoelle) September 22, 2024
The Global Digital Compact presents itself as a framework for digital cooperation and AI governance. But what it actually represents is an unprecedented attempt by unelected bureaucrats at the UN to control the internet and the data of billions of people around the world.
Hidden behind promises of “digital security” and “human rights” is a commitment to control online content, allowing governments and the global tech elite to dictate what is acceptable, effectively silencing and stifling free expression.
In addition, the Pact’s provisions on sustainable development and climate change, which are essentially Trojan horses for economic control.
The agreement calls for reforming international financial institutions, giving more leverage to developing countries. But in practice, this can lead to the redistribution of wealth and resources from prosperous countries to destructive regimes with little regard for the rights or well-being of their citizens.
According to the press release:
“The Pact for the Future, the Global Digital Compact, and the Declaration on Future Generations open the door to new opportunities and unprecedented possibilities,” said the Secretary-General in his speech at the opening of the Summit of the Future. The President of the General Assembly noted that the Pact will “lay the foundations for a sustainable, just, and peaceful global order – for all people and nations.”
The pact covers a wide range of issues including peace and security, sustainable development, climate change, digital cooperation, human rights, gender, youth and future generations, and the transformation of global governance. Key deliverables in the Pact include:
In the area of ​​peace and security
- The most progressive and concrete commitment to reform the Security Council since the 1960s, with plans to increase the effectiveness and representation of the Council, including by fixing the representation of African history as a priority.
- The first multilateral commitment to nuclear disarmament in more than a decade, with a clear commitment to the goal of eliminating nuclear weapons.
- Agreement to strengthen the international framework governing space, including a clear commitment to prevent an arms race in outer space and the need to ensure all countries can benefit from safe and sustainable space exploration.
- Measures to prevent the weaponization and misuse of new technologies, such as lethal autonomous weapons, and insist that the laws of war should apply to many of these new technologies.
In sustainable development, climate and financing for development
- All Pacts are designed to turbo-charge implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals.
- The most detailed agreement in the United Nations on the need to reform the international financial architecture to better represent and serve developing countries, including:
- Give developing countries more say in how decisions are taken in international financial institutions;
- Mobilize more financing from multilateral development banks to help developing countries meet their development needs;
- Review the country’s debt architecture to ensure that developing countries can borrow sustainably to invest in the future, with the IMF, UN, G20 and other key players working together;
- Strengthen the global financial safety net to protect the poorest in the event of financial and economic shocks, through concrete action by the IMF and Member States;
- and accelerating measures to address the challenges of climate change, including through sending more finance to help countries adapt to climate change and invest in renewable energy.
- Improve the way we measure human progress, going beyond GDP to achieve human and planetary well-being and sustainability.
- A commitment to consider ways to introduce a global minimum level of taxation for high-net-worth individuals.
- In terms of climate change, confirm the need to keep global temperatures up to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels and to transition away from fossil fuels in the energy system to achieve net zero emissions by 2050.
In digital cooperation
- The Global Digital Compact, to which the Pact is linked, is the first comprehensive global framework for digital cooperation and AI governance.
- At the heart of the Compact is a commitment to design, use and manage technology for the benefit of all. This includes commitments by world leaders to:
- Connect everyone, schools and hospitals to the Internet;
- Digital cooperation is anchored in human rights and international law;
- Making online spaces safe for all, especially children, through action by governments, tech companies and social media;
- Managing Artificial Intelligence, with a roadmap that includes an International Scientific Panel and Global Policy Dialogue on AI;
- Making data more open and accessible, with agreements on open-source data, models, and standards;
- It is also the first global commitment to data governance, put on the UN agenda and requiring countries to take concrete action by 2030.
Youth and future generations
- The first declaration on Future Generations, with concrete steps to take future generations into account when making decisions, includes an actionable delegation for future generations.
- A commitment to more meaningful opportunities for young people to participate in the decisions that shape their lives, especially at the global level.
Human rights and gender
- Strengthening our work on human rights, gender equality and women’s empowerment.
- A clarion call on the need to protect human rights defenders.
- A strong signal of the importance of the involvement of other stakeholders in global governance, including local and regional governments, civil society, the private sector and others.
There are provisions in the Pact and its annexes for follow-up action, to ensure that the commitments made are implemented.
