The Humanity Manifesto

Ten Points, Most Important First

1. 01

   Restore a Shared Reality

   Every other crisis on this list requires collective action, and collective action requires a common set of facts. Engineered disinformation, deepfakes, and outrage-tuned feeds have made that common ground vanish — 70% of people now believe their leaders deliberately mislead them. We demand transparent algorithmic accountability for major platforms, mandatory provenance labels for AI-generated media, public-interest journalism funded outside the attention economy, and digital literacy taught from primary school onward. Truth is the foundation. Without it, the other nine points are slogans.

2. 02

   Walk Back the Nuclear Arsenal

   Twelve thousand warheads still exist; roughly two thousand sit on minutes-warning. Bilateral arms control between Russia and the United States has lapsed for the first time since 1972. The Doomsday Clock is closer to midnight than it has ever been. Extinction in an afternoon is uniquely irrevocable — we owe ourselves the seriousness this fact deserves. We demand the immediate resumption of binding warhead caps, a verifiable de-alerting of launch-on-warning postures, no AI in the nuclear chain of command, and a generational drawdown back below 1,000 weapons globally.

3. 03

   Cut Industrial Fossil Dependence — Where It Actually Counts

   After thirty years of "transition," fossil fuels still supply roughly 80% of global energy. Electric cars and rooftop solar are the easy 15%. The hard 60–70% — cement, steel, ammonia, plastics, freight, aviation, building heat — has barely begun to decarbonize. We demand a serious public-investment war on industrial heat, green hydrogen, sustainable aviation fuel, regenerative agriculture, and grid-scale storage; carbon pricing that bites the upstream extractors, not the household at the pump; and an end to fossil-fuel subsidies that still total close to $7 trillion globally each year.

4. 04

   Phase Out Endocrine Disruptors, PFAS, and Microplastics

   Sperm counts have fallen more than 60% since 1973. Testosterone in young men is down a quarter in two decades. Microplastics have been found in every placenta, every semen sample, and accumulating brain tissue tested for them. Eighty-six thousand industrial chemicals are in commerce; most have never been tested for reproductive or neurological effects. We demand a precautionary, hazard-based regulatory regime for endocrine-active chemicals — guilty until proven safe, not the reverse — a hard phase-out of PFAS in consumer products, a global treaty on plastic production (not just plastic waste), and binding limits on packaging that ends up inside our bodies.

5. 05

   Save the Antibiotic Commons

   Antimicrobial resistance is on track to kill 39 million people directly by 2050. The pharmaceutical pipeline is nearly empty because antibiotics are not profitable enough to develop. Most of the world's antibiotics are still fed to livestock as growth promoters. Without them, caesarean sections, chemotherapy, and routine surgery become as dangerous as they were in 1900. We demand a global ban on non-therapeutic antibiotic use in agriculture, public-interest pull funding for new classes of antibiotics, mandatory stewardship in every hospital, and free veterinary diagnostics so farmers can stop dosing their herds blind.

6. 06

   Defend Soil, Water, and Pollinators

   Sixteen percent of the world's soils have less than a century of productive life left. Major aquifers are draining six thousand years of recharge in a single human lifetime. Bee colonies just suffered their worst recorded losses; flying insect biomass is down roughly 75% in monitored areas. No soil, no water, no pollinators means no food — and no civilization on top of that food. We demand legally enforceable aquifer-recharge limits, large-scale public investment in regenerative and perennial agriculture, drastic restriction of neonicotinoid and broad-spectrum insecticides, and protected biodiversity corridors across at least 30% of land and sea by 2030.

7. 07

   Make Raising Children Possible Again

   Global fertility has halved in seventy years. The cost of raising a child in the United States is now over $300,000; in China, more than six times annual income per person. South Korea has spent $270 billion on subsidies and the rate keeps falling. Children went from economic asset to economic liability in a single century, and societies that cannot reproduce themselves cannot function. We demand housing policy that prioritizes families over speculation, universal early childcare, paid parental leave for all workers, restored single-earner viability, and an end to the cultural treatment of parenthood as a luxury hobby.

8. 08

   Govern AI So Its Gains Are Shared

   Big Tech will spend more than half a trillion dollars on AI capex in 2026. Sixty percent of jobs in advanced economies are exposed; tens of millions of layoffs are already booked under the AI banner. If machines come to handle both cognitive and physical work, labor's share of income trends toward zero — eight billion people unable to sell their labor is a condition without precedent in the history of our species. We demand binding safety evaluations and audit access for frontier models, redistribution of the productivity dividend through taxes on AI capital and broad ownership of compute, transition guarantees for displaced workers, and a permanent ban on autonomous weapons.

9. 09

   Be Ready for the Next Pandemic — For Real This Time

   H5N1 is one zoonotic mutation away from a population-scale event with a case-fatality rate that has historically run above 40%. The world's first binding pandemic treaty was finally adopted in 2025, but vaccine timelines remain near 250 days, surveillance is fragmented, and trust in public health is in retreat. We demand a 100-day vaccine target backed by sovereign manufacturing capacity on every continent, mandatory genomic surveillance on poultry and dairy operations, open data sharing without IP gatekeeping, and the political will to act early — before the patient zero we will all later wish we had stopped.

10. 10

    Rebuild Real-Life Community

    One in six people on Earth is affected by loneliness. Almost 80% of young adults report feeling lonely. Marriage rates are down 65% since 1970. Lonely societies do not reproduce, do not innovate, do not trust their neighbors, and do not show up to defend the institutions every other point on this list depends on. The thread that ties all of this together is woven in person, not online. We commit, individually, to phones down, to meals shared, to neighbors known by name, to civic and religious and creative gatherings rebuilt at human scale — and we demand public space, third places, and walkable neighborhoods designed around that life rather than against it.