In the end, I will wave worlds goodbye chasing my dreams, but they will forever remain in my heart, imprinted in my mind - Benjamin Rain
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Chapter 1: To Build a World and Wave it Goodbye
February 27th 2018: UN World Summit
Benjamin Rain's address to the World:
"The world has changed, and WorldTech is the change it needs. That which constrained and segregated us has fallen away in the river of time. But as our bindings have fallen away, we have yet to truly embrace our freedom, to embrace the possibilities of what we could together create and achieve. Through innovation, invention and a willingness to change the world, we have prospered, but there is still much to do. Thus, I call upon the UN to join together in creating WorldTech, to build a better future, our future, today.
Citizens of our world, of our nations, of our peoples are suffering, starving when we could feed them, dying of thirst with stained lakes and seas of in front of them. We need WorldTech to solve these important world issues and to ultimately lead a united humanity into the future.
Today, world hunger plagues more than 795 million people worldwide, yet as they starve we do not act. We haven’t made changes we need to make, we pass by the changes that we should and WorldTech is that change. So make it. We have enough food, we have enough money, we have enough science to help, yet we don’t act. I call upon the UN to act. For by acting now we save tomorrow and we better the world of all those that would live there.
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We currently have a population of more than 7.6 billion people. Each and every one of them deserves food to eat, yet more than a ninth of them starve every day. Every day that population grows and by 2050 it will have reached slightly less than 10. Billion. People. 10 billion human beings that require food to eat and a place to live. And in their expansion and urbanization of land to build houses and homes, more and more potential farming land will be removed from the equation, reducing food supplies worldwide. We have less than 32 years until this point and the clock is ticking. We need to act now before it is too late to act. No one need go hungry, no one should go hungry and no one will go hungry with WorldTech.
WorldTech is the solution to our problems and it needs to start now, at this conference, on this day. WorldTech is a research facility but it is more than a research facility. It is an organization, a collaboration between the nations of this Earth, the great undertaking of our time, financed by its member nations and staffed by the elite of this world. Building upon the strengths of its individual members and compensating for each others weaknesses, the challenges and threats that our human society faces could be laid to rest within our lifetimes. It for these reasons that I call upon the UN to help usher in this bright future for all of mankind."
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More than 14 years later, as Ben stepped into that gateway to his dreams he stopped for a moment to think and remember the good he had done and the lives he had saved, before wiping a lone tear off of his eye with a reminiscent smile on his face, eyes glinting with hope towards his final goal, his true dream, finally giving the world he had built a wave goodbye with the resolve to one day return, with his dream come true, before stepping into the portal and landing his metaphorical foot on the metaphorical ground, as he finally completed that first step towards his most treasured dream. Home.