Here’s a review of the new book Children of a Modest Star that ponders the consequences of governance that would sit above the 206 sovereign nations when it comes to climate change mitigation and pandemic control.
There is no doubt that the status quo on Planet Earth, and a business-as-usual approach to global warming is getting us slowly nowhere. The reasons for this are many, but, at the core, the politics of every country includes the notion: I will not take an action that benefits someone else at my expense.
Yet what would a unified world government look like? Exactly what powers would it have? Can one imagine how most Americans would respond to being told what to do by an organization like the United Nations? And I’m not talking about our crackpot anti-vaxxers and climate deniers. This is a big ask, even for sensible people.
When you or I read what Joe Biden said last night (see left), we tend to think: “Of course. Our democracy is indeed in danger, and we need to fight to keep it from being usurped by Trump and his supporters.”
Unfortunately, when Trumpers read this, they have a very different reaction: “There they go again. Those radical woke leftist extremists trying to make less of the work that the President has done in bringing down prices, and making America respected again by the rest of the world.”
I’ve had more productive conversations with my dogs.
Most Americans have their own take on the geography of the South. For me, it’s not completely geographic; it’s partly sociographic. For example, Northern Virginia is about as cosmopolitan a place as you’re going to find in the United States, but it’s at the same latitude as West Virginia, which ranks 45th out of the 50 states in education.
I know lots of wealthy people from prep school, college, and several decades of business consulting, all of whom seemed like decent folks at the time. Yet now, I sometimes wonder how many are Trump donors. It’s upsetting just to think about it.
It’s hard to believe that this collapse of basic moral values happened in the United States.
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