A Letter to the Peoples of the World
The Pledge
I believe that our world can be both abundant and safe. I endorse the Charter for Abundance & Resilience and pledge my voice in support of its submission to the United Nations. I call on national governments, investors and international institutions to adopt auditable measures of resilience, finance distributed productive capacity, protect workers through portable retraining, and ensure that technology serves the dignity and security of all peoples.
Dear Friends,
We are living in a time of extraordinary possibility — and extraordinary peril.
New technologies, global trade and human ingenuity have given us the ability to make more, cure more, and connect more than any generation before us. At the same time, those same forces have made our systems fragile: a single shortage, a single market shock, a single failure of governance can ripple outward and break the things we depend on — our jobs, our neighborhoods, our health systems, and the natural world that sustains us all.
This is not an abstract problem. It is the daily reality of millions: a parent whose factory closed, a small shop that could not survive a shipment delay, a community whose hospital had to postpone care because a critical part could not be delivered. It is why, if we do not act together now, the future we imagine for our children becomes far harder to build.
That is the purpose of the Charter for Abundance & Resilience — a simple, urgent idea: we can and must design our institutions, our money, and the places we make and live so that abundance does not remain fragile. We can build systems that produce more and protect everyone from cascading collapse. But to make this charter real — to bring it from a draft into the halls of the United Nations and into the hands of governments and investors — we need a very particular thing that only you and millions of others can provide: your voice.
This letter is an invitation.
We invite you to join a global pledge — a simple act of solidarity — that will be bundled with our formal submission of the Charter to the United Nations. Your pledge will do three powerful things:
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Make the moral case visible. Multilateral diplomacy listens. When millions of people ask for resilient, abundant futures — not for a few, but for everyone — it changes how leaders think about risk, investment and law. Your signature shows that resilience is not just a technocratic policy but a global demand for dignity and safety.
A promise about how your pledge will be used
We promise to treat your voice with care. Pledges and stories will be collected with clear consent and used only as part of the public petition to the United Nations and in non-identifying aggregated reporting about public priorities. If you opt in, we will send short updates and invitations to participate in constructive civic activities. You will always be able to withdraw consent.
Why your voice, matters right now
Diplomacy and policy are, in their best forms, conversations. They are conversations that should be shaped not only by diplomats in capital cities, nor by investors and technocrats, but by the people who live the consequences of policy every day.
If millions of us tell the United Nations that we want a Charter that protects towns as well as markets, that rewards investors who verify public benefit, that guarantees retraining and dignity for displaced workers, and that binds global technology to human oversight — that will make the words in the Charter real.
Our movement is not about ideology. It is about a common sense of obligation: to protect the conditions that make human life possible — clean air and water, safe food, meaningful work, and a chance for our children to thrive. It is a pledge to transform fear into agency and complexity into action.
Join us now
If you are ready to add your voice, please sign the pledge below and share it widely. You will be joining a growing number of people from every country, background and profession who believe that abundance must be durable, equitable and resilient.
With gratitude for your time and for the courage that moves nations,
Dan Diotte (World Citizen/Heritage Canadian)
Founder & Convenor (on behalf of the Charter initiative)
2.Shape the practical agenda. The Charter proposes measurable instruments — a Fragility Index, independent validators of public benefit, blended finance to seed local microfactories and Flagship civic hubs. Your stories and your priorities will help shape which measures get prioritized and what “public benefit” must mean in practice.
3.Protect the future of technology and life. If we fail to build institutions that align capital, governance and local capacity, powerful technologies can be misused, and climate and social shocks can amplify into long-term harm. Your pledge is a vote for rules, for oversight, and for a humane transition — a world where technology serves everyone, not a few. We know pledges are not enough on their own. That is why this campaign is designed to be practical and accountable.
When you pledge, you will be able to: (a) add a short personal statement about what resilience means to you; (b) opt in to receive brief, transparent updates on the Charter’s progress and the pilots the Charter funds; and (c) be invited to participate — if you wish — in local or virtual assemblies where communities test the ideas (for example: Flagship Hub pilots, retraining cohorts, or validator training).
How you can take three simple steps
1.Sign the Pledge. The pledge is short and clear. (Full pledge text below.)
2.Share a short story or priority. A sentence about who you are and what you fear or hope for. This helps negotiators see the human faces behind the numbers.
3.Invite others. Ask five friends to pledge. Ask your local community group, school, church, factory floor or makerspace to join. Momentum builds quickly if millions of voices join together.
A message from our Founder. Listen to Dan Diotte as he shares his mission to usher in a plan of resilience towards abundance