Climate Change Mitigation: World Governance?

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.