I think we should spend some of the western world's blowing-stuff-up-and-spying-on-each-other budget on, say, irrigating the deserts and putting canals, renewable power and water treatment systems into every corner of the world.
To save confusion, I think they should call soccer "world-ball", american football "pointy-ball", gaelic football "weird-ball", rugby "scrum-ball" and Australian rules can be "injury-ball" ... *Ducks the flying debris*
I like the idea of an advertisement-free week, uoba. A major consumer's rights group has already established a "buy-nothing day".