The Geneva Declaration (Summary)

To summarise the findings of this symposium and its delegates the following three main tenants are those which, we have decreed as irrefutably true and do not therefore warrant further investigation through unnecessary funding or allocation of vital civil or private resources. For the purposes of mass consumption and public information dissemination, this symposium and its delegates have summarised their three main findings as follows:

Firstly, at its current trajectory and speed and unimpeded by the emergence of unforeseeable gravitational or kinetic influences, the comet C/2064U will impact the Earth in five years, two months, four days, six hours and fifteen minutes. Using this timescale impact will occur some two hundred kilometers off the south west coast of Cuba at 09.15 local time on Friday 17th January 2070 (08.15 EST, 14.15 GMT).

Secondly, given the comet C/2064U's current speed, size, mass, and probable composition, it is the consensus of this symposium and its delegates that no existing technology currently available or viably engineerable within the aforementioned time scale, can avert impact, given that the only two theoretical methods of planetary defence available to our global civilisation are the 'destroy' or 'divert' models.

With regard to the 'destroy' model, it is the consensus of this symposium and its delegates that any attempt to obliterate the comet C/2064U using ground or space based nuclear weaponry (technology not currently permitted under the clauses of the Nuclear Limitation Treaty of 2031 and the Large Gigaton De-scaling Developmental Framework of 2046) would produce an unacceptably high risk of breaking the comet's rocky core into several hundred smaller stellar objects. Many of these smaller rock and ice fragments would almost certainly remain on a collision course with the Earth and would survive entry into the atmosphere, leading to a comparable, if not more catastrophic impact event.

With regard to the 'divert' model, it is the consensus of this symposium and its delegates the amount of energy needed to produce a big enough 'shunt' or 'push' to sufficiently divert the comet C/2064U's trajectory this close to impact (whether it be through nuclear, kinetic or other more theoretical means) is completely untenable given current technological and engineering limitations and the widespread de-nuclearisation of nation state arsenals under the aforementioned treaties.

Thirdly, it is the consensus of this symposium and its delegates that no life on Earth would survive the immediate aftermath of an impact event caused by the comet C/2064U, either as a singular non periodical comet or or in the various comet fragments and distributions of a multiple impact event (as resultant from the 'destroy' model of planetary defence previously stated.)

It is therefore the opinion of this symposium and its delegates that comet C/2064U be officially categorized as a Mass Extinction Event by the UN and that the security council call an emergency summit of all member states with the express intention of passing into international law a mandate to bring the space agencies of our planet's nations into line under the strategic and operational leadership of a singular international executive body, whilst maintaining necessary and expedient individual nation state administration and internal regulations.

It is therefore the inevitable and regrettable conclusion of this symposium and its delegates that the UN and its member states bring about a programme of mass planetary evacuation to the nearest habitable celestial body in our solar system; this being the planet Mars.

We commit this declaration to the legislature of the United Nations Security Council on behalf of the scientific community of the world, as represented here by the this symposium and its delegates.
13th November 2064
Geneva Delegation