Book contents
- Planet in Peril
- Reviews
- Planet in Peril
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Fictional Vignettes
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Existential Threats: The Four Most Pressing Dangers Facing Humankind
- Part II Strategies and Obstacles: The Solutions We Need, and What’s Preventing Them from Being Realized
- 6 How to Beat Climate Change
- 7 Wise Governance for Nukes and Pandemics: Where to Go Faster and Where to Slow Down
- 8 Controlling Things Versus Controlling Agents: The Challenge of High-Level AI
- 9 The International Dimension: Where Every Solution Stumbles
- Prologue to Parts III, IV, and V
- Part III Sensible Steps for Today’s World: Powerful Measures We Can Implement Right Away
- Part IV The Middle-Term Goal: New International Tools for the Late Twenty-First Century
- Part V The Long-Term Goal: Envisioning a Mature System of Global Governance for the Twenty-Second Century
- Endnotes
- Bibliography
- Index
9 - The International Dimension: Where Every Solution Stumbles
from Part II - Strategies and Obstacles: The Solutions We Need, and What’s Preventing Them from Being Realized
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 October 2022
- Planet in Peril
- Reviews
- Planet in Peril
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Fictional Vignettes
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- Part I Existential Threats: The Four Most Pressing Dangers Facing Humankind
- Part II Strategies and Obstacles: The Solutions We Need, and What’s Preventing Them from Being Realized
- 6 How to Beat Climate Change
- 7 Wise Governance for Nukes and Pandemics: Where to Go Faster and Where to Slow Down
- 8 Controlling Things Versus Controlling Agents: The Challenge of High-Level AI
- 9 The International Dimension: Where Every Solution Stumbles
- Prologue to Parts III, IV, and V
- Part III Sensible Steps for Today’s World: Powerful Measures We Can Implement Right Away
- Part IV The Middle-Term Goal: New International Tools for the Late Twenty-First Century
- Part V The Long-Term Goal: Envisioning a Mature System of Global Governance for the Twenty-Second Century
- Endnotes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Past efforts to mitigate planet-level dangers have included modest initiatives such as climate treaties, arms control deals, or limited pandemic precautions, as well as bolder moves like the US government’s 1946 proposal for international control of atomic weapons, the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention, or Ronald Reagan’s 1983 missile shield initiative. While these were all important steps in the right direction, they have fallen far short of what is needed. In all cases, the most salient stumbling block has been the way every nation continues to fend for itself in a ruthlessly competitive world arena. An effective response to these four mega-dangers will require moving beyond the international self-help system and creating coordinated instruments of global governance.
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- Planet in PerilHumanity's Four Greatest Challenges and How We Can Overcome Them, pp. 115 - 125Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022