Setting up centers of intelligence with focus on the creative development of pragmatic solutions to urgent and global problems – Mary Christ Society’s written statement submitted to the UN HLPF 2025

In its capacity as an organization in special consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council, since 2018, the Mary Christ Society (formally, “Sociedade Filantrópica Maria de Nazaré”), through its founding president Benjamin Teixeira de Aguiar, participates in the largest international forum on sustainable development, the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, in its 13th session this 2025.¹

Much is said and promised, in the name of rescuing our civilization from the edge of the precipice of self-extinction. However, procrastination combined with a lack of political will has led us to alarming levels of danger, on multiple flanks of systemic fragility, from the climate issue, in acute and dreadful circumstance, to skirmishes that turn into wider bloody confrontations, passing through political bravado of conservative extremism and completely nonsensical trade wars.

All this happens as if the apocalyptic risks were fanciful, while the scenario of imminent and multifaceted disasters thus worsens. Tyrants with a genocidal profile and a cynical attitude take over the governments of the most powerful nations on the planet, terrorizing multitudes and leaving enlightened people flabbergasted, as they commit diabolical acts, which are increasingly Dantesque and frequent, heading toward a cataclysmic fate that will encompass us all in the same pandemonium of horrors – for now, of unpredictable extent.

Before we cross the threshold of the point of no return, let us reverse the direction of our steps, moving away, albeit modestly, but objectively, pragmatically and constantly, from this fateful inflection point. There is no more time or resources that can be wasted in the final seconds of the “Doomsday Clock”.

May we all align ourselves, as individuals and communities, nations and non-governmental organizations, with the greater purposes that unite us: the very salvation of the biosphere of which we are part and the achievement of peace and security in the relationship between countries, religions, ethnicities and diverse linguistic groups, before, in fact – if we may use the cliché –, it is too late for any initiative to reverse the planetary course toward the precipice of total tragedy.

Benjamin Teixeira de Aguiar (medium)
Eugênia-Aspásia and Matheus-Anacleto (Spirits)
in the Name of Mary Christ
May 3, 2025

HLPF 2025 theme: “Setting up centers of intelligence and creative development of pragmatic solutions to urgent and global problems”.