The time has passed when nations
should be allowed to do as they individually
wish with regard to global matters,
each striving solely in its own interests,
with the more powerful now
able to destroy all humanity and more.

For the common good,
we need to frame and abide
by a higher system of law and justice,
designed with less national,
more godlike, perspectives for the preservation
and welfare of the biosphere as a whole.

The problems of setting up
and administering an effective,
international force of this kind
can hardly be more grave,
formidable or insoluble
than those we encounter
on any alternative course.

Toward a Higher System of World Law and Justice (1986)
Roger wolcott Sperry