Not War of the Worlds but Peace among Worlds, Futurist Says
If our current libel laws were to extend beyond Earth’s boundaries, Steven Spielberg’s War of the Worlds might be found to be defamatory towards a race of extraterrestrial beings that may be living below the surface of Mars. In his newly released eBook "Exopolitics: Politics, Government, and Law in the Universe" (FilamentBooks.com), futurist Alfred Lambremont Webre presents a practical and philosophical model of how such an outreach program to other planetary civilizations might be shaped.
Vancouver, BC (PRWEB) July 26, 2005 -- If our current libel laws were to
extend beyond Earth’s boundaries, Steven Spielberg’s War of the Worlds might be
found to be defamatory towards a race of extraterrestrial beings that may be
living below the surface of Mars.
That is the claim of a veteran lawyer
and space peace activist who says that by portraying Martians as aggressive
attackers, Spielberg’s new film also misrepresents the broader challenge that
humanity must confront interacting with other civilizations in space.
A
graduate of Yale Law School, Alfred Lambremont Webre is known as the founding
father of exopolitics. His work as a futurist at the prestigious Stanford
Research Institute (SRI) in 1977 directing a proposed Extraterrestrial
Communication Project for the Carter White House led to the emergence of
exopolitics as a social science discipline.
Like many other futurists,
Webre has concluded that humanity is destined to become a space-faring
civilization. But he has been at the forefront of advocating that such a future
will require a program of public interest diplomacy with "off-planet cultures."
In his newly released book Exopolitics: Politics, Government, and Law in
the Universe (Filament Books; $9.99), Webre presents a practical and
philosophical model of how such an outreach program to other planetary
civilizations might be shaped.
Webre thinks that intergalactic diplomacy
will involve peaceful co-existence and cooperation with other civilizations
founded on principles of Universal law.
"Exopolitics is premised on the
notion that if humanity is not only to survive but thrive in the Universe, it
will have to develop a political science to effectively interact with the beings
that it will encounter in space," Webre says.
It might seem like science
fiction fantasy to some, but Webre’s book deals with a subject that is taken
very seriously by some of the most accomplished members of Earth society. Among
many other prominent citizens of this world, a former American astronaut and one
of Canada’s former defense ministers have endorsed Exopolitics.
"The
scientific paradigm of the 20th Century was that intelligent life ended at
Earth’s geo-stationary orbit," Webre explains. "The exopolitics model informs us
that, in reality, Earth appears to be an isolated planet in the midst of a
populated Universe composed of intelligent civilizations subject to Universal
law, operating under Universal forms of governance, and mediated by Universe
politics."
Webre delights in the cosmic irony that his e-book publisher,
Filament Books, originally decided to publish Exopolitics on its website along
with War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells’ classic account of an alien invasion from
Mars that inspired Spielberg’s new blockbuster.
In his science fiction
novel, Wells portrays Mars – and by implication, other planets – as harbingers
of alien monsters that wish to attack and destroy our planetary civilization.
"[Across the gulf of space… intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic regarded
this Earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against
us," Wells wrote.
Webre has a far more optimistic view of Mars and other
possibly populated planets. He thinks that human contact with aliens represents
not a "final threat" but a "future hope."
His optimism is fueled by
recent scientific discoveries made by NASA’s Mars Rover. These findings confirm
the high probability that the red planet could host life today.
Webre is
also intrigued by data derived from the scientific process of "remote viewing"
which suggest that below Mars’ surface dwells a peaceful race of intelligent
humanoid beings that survived an environmental cataclysm on Mars that occurred
eons ago.
"Remote viewing" is the mental process of perceiving and
describing places, persons, and events at distant locations. It was sponsored
and developed by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Defense
Intelligence Agency (DIA) in the early 1970’s with the help of scientists from
Stanford Research Institute.
According to Webre, both remote viewers
within the American intelligence community and civilian remote viewers trained
by the US government have discovered astounding data about life on Mars,
including the fact that the surviving Martian culture has technology that
appears to be 150 years in advance of our present day civilization.
The
remote viewing data indicate that because their physical appearance is so
similar to humans on Earth, some Martians have already migrated to villages in
South America. "Humans from Mars seem to be genetically related to humans on
Earth," Webre says. "This raises many important questions – for science as well
as for religion."
If such data prove accurate, Webre thinks that
mutually beneficial agreements with our extended "human" family from Mars could
help human civilization on Earth cope with the looming environmental challenges
that threaten our own planetary survival.
His brilliant treatise
Exopolitics describes the steps that must be taken to move in that direction. It
sets forth an agenda for a hopeful future in which humanity addresses the
challenge of contact with other civilizations in the Universe not in a "war of
the worlds" scenario but through a "peace among worlds" initiative. It is "a
roadmap to the stars."
About the Author
Alfred Lambremont Webre
is a futurist and lawyer educated at Yale Law School. He was a Fulbright
scholar. A member of the bar of the District of Columbia, he once served as
general counsel to New York City’s Environmental Protection Agency. He was a
Clinton-Gore delegate to the 1996 Texas Democratic convention. He lives in
Vancouver, BC, where he is the International Director of the Institute for
Cooperation in Space (ICIS).
About the Book
Exopolitics: Politics,
Government, and Law in the Universe
By Alfred Lambremont Webre
Edited and
with an Appendix by Andrew D. Basiago
Forewords by Dr. Courtney Brown and
Paul Davids
Comments by Astronaut Dr. Brian O’Leary and Others
Filament
Books
Price: US $9.99
ISBN: 0-9737663-0-1
Available at http://www.filamentbooks.com
Contact
Alfred
Lambremont Webre, JD, MEd
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Vancouver, B.C.
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Telephone:
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Website: http://www.exopolitics.com
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