Can a conference change our troubled world?
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Hi there, Steve Patterson here, host of The Debaters, the show where we tackle questions on the minds of Canadians like, should you move back in with your parents? Two of Canada's top comedians are bringing it home when they decide if living with family again is worth it or not. Who's right and who's wrong? Well, I guess it's all relative. So whether you're listening from your parents' basement or in your own place above ground, don't miss this week's episode of The Debaters wherever you get your podcasts.
This is a CBC podcast. We spend a lot of time at ideas thinking about how change comes about, how seismic shifts happen in a society's thinking or beliefs, or the way it organizes itself. Of course, there are as many answers as there are instances of change, but sometimes in our collective history, there is no choice. Change, compromising for the sake of change, becomes existential. There were many who doubted that agreement could ever be reached by these 50 countries, differing so much in race and religion, in language and culture.
But these differences were all forgotten in one unshakable unity of determination to find a way to end war. That was the motivation back in 1945, to find a way to end wars. Crisis is what led fifty countries to sign off as war was still raging on what they described back then as a global magna carta for peace. And so that's how the United Nations was born, 80 years ago. It was a conference to write a People's Charter, opening with the words, We, the people of the United Nations, determined to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, which twice in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind.
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