The woes of the world from cross border wars to climate change; from the proliferation of plastic to a future prospect of unchecked AI warfare, can be pinned down to one thing : a continual failure of the United Nations Charter to deliver a process that permits coordinated responses to global problems. The UN Charter is hopeless for today's global community. What kind of process allows a minority country (one with a population as low as 1% of the world population) to veto any decision of the whole organization, even decisions in which they have a vested interest? The San Francisco Promise, as it was called in 1945, was the promise of the founders of the UN Charter that the Charter would be reviewed every 10 years. This was so that it could keep up with the world's needs and stay fit for purpose. There have been no reviews at all. The reason for this is clear: governments with the veto power who would have diminished power by the review of the charter have an interest in it not happening. No review means they maintain their privilege. And so we do not hear a peep from them about the San Francisco Promise. It doesn't help that global media ownership largely resides in the borders of counties that hold that veto power. But a shake-up of the UN Charter is overwhelmingly in the interests of the constituents of the veto powers themselves, just as much as it is in the interest of the populations of other countries. We are all world citizens. An effective United Nations would be able to quash genocides before they happen; provide effective leadership for the energy transition across the globe; place global guardrails around malevolent AI development; protect ocean health; assist with free access to the internet for all; and compel contagious disease protocols. The people of the world need to speak up, We need that promised review of the UN. This is a global need. This is the Elephant in the Room. Here is as good a place as any to start some kind of movement. Vote here for this idea.