Editorial Comment 07-12-2006.
Peace will never come from what one side wants. Peace will only come form what ALL sides want.

Concisions and unity on even the simplest thing is the only road to peace.
The foundation of trust and unity is the only stable building block.

The US now seeks internalisation of the Iraq situation, stating a peaceful resolution is ion the interests of stability of all the other nations in the region. Yes, it is. This is a start, but the US have to mean it. Thinking of others has got to replace self interest.

Editorial Comment 21-12-2005.
This will be the last editorial comment of 2005, as we take a Christmas break, so it is a time we can reflect upon the past year that started with so much optimism for change to a more caring world, but finds that at its close the forces of war, profit and greed still hold so much sway.

With a galvanised public, the Edinburgh G8 conference showed change is possible, but many countries reneged on commitments. Montreal extended Kyoto’s achievements, but the USA is still reluctant to join in fully. December’s World Trade conference appeared no closer to the goal of true fair trade, for the immediate future.

During the year, marches for peace& justice, for fair trade and for action on global warming all showed strong voices for change. The politicians even listened, but in the end their self interest got the better of them. More marches are planned in the future, but as one recent article stated from a politically active group, ‘We need something different’, to get our voice across.
This movement and its concept is something different.

We hope that one day those striving for the same goal of a world at peace and in harmony with the planet, will effectively unite to defeat the powerful lobby of profit, greed and war. Traffic lights 4 peace could provide such a uniting mechanism, let us hope it is experimented with before we go too far down the wrong road.

This editorial will return with renewed enthusiasm and vigour after a well earned break. We wish all our readers and surfers of the site all the best for 2006 and invite you all to help us unite the many in common cause throughout the new year.

A final thought.
Perhaps on United Nations Day, all the world’s delegations could take a seat at another country’s podium, with the largest GDP swapping with the lowest GDP and so on, debating as representatives of that country for the day. Then maybe the more powerful nations would get to realise the problems and needs of the weakest, for the benefit of us all. A simple practical idea like that could possibly open many doors of understanding and co-operation. Just a thought!

Editorial Comment 09-12-2005.
Mr. Bush infamously once said, "You're either for us or against us". He's right! The problem is, Mr. Bush , on warmongering and destroying the planet by greed, most of humanity is against you!

As the Montreal conference on global warming draws to a close, Bush and his oil baron puppet masters have avoided constructive involvement again. We need a powerful unified voice to drown out his ill advice. Traffic lights 4 peace is an attempt to do just that!

In the UK the once powerful tobacco lobby has been brought to heel by Government legislation and public opinion. Now there are signs of the oil industry realising change is necessary. BP is making an effort to promote renewable energy sources. This could be diversionary window dressing, but we hope not. A genuine move away from fossil fuel dependence by its industry
leaders, (just like tobacco had to diversify), should be encouraged by Governments in light of public opinion on climate change.

The UK Chancellor should have taken the opportunity this week to have given oil companies inducements to follow that course. By placing no levy on profits that can be demonstrated as being from non-fossilised fuel origin, these oil companies could be encouraged to solve the problem of global warming that they have created in the first place.

Think again Mr. Brown! An opportunity missed this week. Don’t miss the boat again, for all our sakes.

Editorial Comment 03-12-2005.
Today hundreds of thousands across the globe spoke as one voice urging our Governments not to renege on Kyoto, but to go beyond and work together on tackling effectively global warming.
The signs so far this week at the Montreal conference have not been good. Some Governments are back-tracking. We need to keep up the pressure on all of them.
This Movement and the ‘Save ouR Planet’ campaign are designed to do just that.
If you are checking us out for the first time, welcome, there’s loads to look at and read, plus so much more to come. We are expanding all the time. Help become part of our global family. We promote all groups and individuals who seek peace, justice and a harmonious relationship with the planet. Our various membership, comment and notice board pages are always open and welcoming to caring users. Enjoy the site and inform others.
If you were at the London march and you still have your green and white ribbons, then find a local traffic light to use them on and let your local media know that combined with the message of the lights they are a symbolic call for action on global warming.

This Movement is rapidly expanding and needs help. We are non-financial so help is by volunteers providing services and spreading the word. We are presently looking for traffic light protest co-ordinators in every town and city. If you think you might be able to help in that way please let us know.

We are a proactive site. Please help with the launch of our new pages.
Any tips on energy saving, CO2 reduction or environmental advice are welcomed and will be placed on the ‘Open Advice Notice Board’, (please indicate if you wish your name and town to be included). Thanks.

Editorial Comment 29-11-2005.
So Montreal is upon us and Governments are baulking at the commitments of the Kyoto Protocol.
Why is it that as populations throughout the world, in countries large and small, show increasing concern about global warming are our political leaders stalling on the necessary changes to safeguard our future?

Is it not perhaps because those with a vested interest in profit, war and greed have disproportional influence and so seek to sabotage attempts of saving humanity as a whole, to the advantage of the privileged few?

The prevailing attitude of Montreal leaders presently seems to be, that it doesn’t matter if the vast majority of humanity is wiped out, as long as we keep an elite, comfortable rump to inherit what’s left.

It’s time for the people, the condemned billions in their eyes, to assert their will to survive, in an alternative world, where care for the planet and for each other are mutually beneficial and sustainable. Join us NOW! Climate change can’t be solved in an instant; for like an oil tanker in voyage, the Captain’s instruction to reverse the engines will only take effect slowly before the perilous journey to catastrophic wreckage is averted.

Which path do you want to go down? The Traffic lights 4 peace path or the selfish, head in the sand, world leaders’ path? To coin a phrase, ‘You decide!’

The global traffic lights protest – our ‘Visible Voice’ – is both achievable and potentially effective. We need in Montreal week to start that ball rolling. Join the ‘Save ouR Planet’ Campaign, to put pressure on our leaders to see beyond their narrow minded, selfish borders and attend to the needs of us ALL. Join one of the international marches this coming Saturday, (London’s is detailed on this site). Then spread the word about the potential global traffic light protest, that could enable you and me, ordinary citizens of this world of ours, to have a majority say about our future and those of our generations to come.

Editorial Comment 24-11-2005.
"A tragedy the world forgot”
The front page headline of today’s Independent highlighting concern for the forgotten victims of the Pakistan earthquake (front page 24th Nov.) is commendable.

In our busy lives how soon are once burning issues melted away? They rightly point out this is not a British malaise, but worldwide amongst the very Nations that are most disposed to help.

Our organisation is revolutionary and unique in its method and seeks to redress and overcome this very problem!

We recognise that there are so many excellent organisations around the globe with desires and means to act and inform. At ‘Traffic lights 4 peace’ we say that we comprehend that we have so much on our minds in our everyday lives, but take a moment, (for that is all it takes!), to think of others. Our one remit is to make traffic lights become synonymous with the message: (red) Stop war, (amber) change to, (green) Green Planet. A simple phrase, yet it starts the thought pattern beyond our own lives.

There is hope for the world. There is a lot of inspirational good in the world. We just need a little aide memoir to engage it. The traffic lights project is just that!

Most of us see them daily. They are global in distribution. With such a message acting almost subliminally each time the lights are encountered, we have the chance to do exactly what the Independent's headline (24th Nov.) intimates – Don’t forget. Don’t give up. Keep working to help others - for in helping others we help ourselves.

Editorial Comment 21-11-2005.
Blair U-turns again, but gets it right!
This consummate populist politician has seen the error of his Bush Administration ways and so we, (biting our lips), like other environmental campaigners must welcome him back into the fold!

This editorial has been extremely critical of his decisions in the past, but could this be a turning point against the Bush Administrations intransigence.

When we say that Blair has been, all along, a populist, this in fact includes Iraq. He was persuaded by Bush, (although most of us are incredulous as to how), to invade Iraq with the naïve vision of solving the Middle East dilemma. History has shown the devastating folly of that misjudgement – indeed the chicken farm analogy found on our ‘Story’page, that we put forward over a year ago, now appears to be becoming a reality.

On Saturday 19th November we launched our ‘SAVE OUR PLANET’ Campaign, not in a blaze of celebrity publicity, but restrainedly at the Peace Direct Conference in Rugby on tackling conflict at macro and micro levels.

This campaign is a means to show Governments that the overwhelming, vast majority of the inhabitants of this planet of ours, want and need action on climate change and that action has to be legislated for. No well meaning person, unless a principled martyr, will take on board the necessary reduction in comfort factors unless his neighbour does likewise. Why should he, or she? For we all have to act together to be effective and so the only fair and practical way is for Governments worldwide to legislate for the necessary changes.

To give an analogy, climate change is like a massive oil tanker in voyage, which requires 2 miles to stop and reverse. If the look-out on that tanker calls to the captain and says that there is a concrete barrier across the channel ahead, does the captain risk ignoring him? NO!
We are at that stage now. We can’t ignore the warnings we have already had with polar melt and increasingly severe weather events. We need to act NOW to have a chance to avoid catastrophe. To go back to the analogy, the captain has to tell the crew to stop and reverse the engines and ignore his financial bosses drive for profit.

The SAVE OUR PLANET campaign is designed to use a universal symbol of red, amber and green circles to act as a message from all the peoples of the world to their Governments to act NOW. Every person on this planet that seeks a future can use this symbol and the traffic lights, upon which it is based, to provide a message and a universal, easily recognised , protest point to tell our Governments that they must ACT NOW!

Join the SAVE OUR PLANET campaign to have protests on virtually every street corner throughout the globe to tell our Governments to act. It could be that a simple ribbon is all that it takes to save our planet!

This might seem an optimistic hope, but can we afford not to try it? Join the campaign and work towards the production of such a massive demonstration worldwide of a will to survive, by spreading the word. Once well known, we can initiate the demonstration/protest for a set date in 2006 hopefully, when green and white ribbons will be tied to traffic lights posts and bring millions onto the streets worldwide. We are realists. We know it may not work, but we have to try. It is such a simple, low cost idea, that all can participate in, that we can’t afford not to try.
SPREAD THE WORD and give us all some hope of doing something positive in time!

Editorial Comment 16-11-2005.
Mr. Blair talks tosh! Mr. Blair's Guildhall speech does the world no favours.

Mr. Blair appears to some, to be making the right noises about trade and climate change in his Guildhall speech. His speech can be condensed into saying, however, that more of the same (expanding free trade, more war on terror and vountary carbon emmission targets) is the way forward, that all will come right in the end.

He intimates that we should feed the beast of profit and greed and let the luxuriant elite drip feed the rest, to secure prosperity and environmental utopia. What a load of drivel !

Radical legislative action by Governments worldwide is needed NOW to avoid climatic meltdown, not egocentric waffle from lame duck leaders.

Editorial Comment 08-11-2005.
It is not the man in the street or the field that drives us to war, it is the politician.

Ask every family man if he wants a peaceful world, a world capable of sustaining him and his family, he will say yes. Ask him if he wishes to kill his neighbour, even those across the oceans, he will say no.

It is the politicians who convince us to reverse this natural response by the utilisation of fear.
The Bush and Blair Administrations are two of the greatest exponents of fear, for fear gives the means to rule and the chance to manipulate. Only by removal of fear and a willingness to learn and tollerate can we hope to have a peaceful and sustainable world.

Why are we choosing to have a 'Comment' on the 8th Nov. '05?
It is because a state visit to Britain occurs today by the Chinese leader. If the world is not going to slip into war again, China must not be allowed to become a fear factory. As China becomes the largest economy in the world, it is important its people are not fed fear of the rest of the world. So how does Traffic lights 4 peace come into this equation? Politicians in the future will, as always in the past, attempt to convince their public that others beyond their borders envy them and pose a threat.
To counter this we need a strong international talking shop. Firstly the UN must strengthen, not weaken to the will of Bush.
Secondly an international (global) call for peace, that all ,in every nation, can understand and be instantly recognised is needed.
A sign, a call that is everywhere, that cannot be removed. A sign that portrays the natural instinct of man for peaceful and harmonious survival on our planet. A sign that calls for an end to war and a care for our planet. That international sign, that traverses all languages is already here: TRAFFIC LIGHTS 4 PEACE!