> Good. This top-down world governance project needs to be abandoned.
Alright. How do we deal with global warming?
Shouldn't international laws and co-operation between nations, naturally develop into a global government?
Alright. How do we deal with global warming?
Shouldn't international laws and co-operation between nations, naturally develop into a global government?
All it will achieve is the greater concentration of power in the hands of even fewer people.
The potential solutions that come to mind range from, on the pessimistic end, apocalyptic, to technological if we are to be optimistic. We'll either think our way out of the crisis with cleaner sources of energy, or nature will have it's way and our population will dwindle.
Taxes are not the solution to every problem.
A tax on BS consumption won't "disproportionately affect the poor". The poor have vastly more basic needs to be concerned with a tax on all kinds of consumerist crap.
The atmosphere and oceans are a common good, and it's hard to see how we'll stop polluting without enforceable agreements. And that means some entity has to do the enforcing.
Global warming denial seems to be an ideological necessity to the right-wing because they can't accept a problem exists that can only be solved by global governance. Witness the poster you're replying to, suggesting we accept human extinction rather than taxes and regulation.
Straw man or False dilemma?
That was the original statement. To me, the fact that 'range' is included, means there's more than just two choices implied. I do believe it misrepresents the argument to suggest that there's only two 'extremes' of "taxes and regulation" or else "we go extinct."
In an ad-hoc manner? We have lots of global bodies like the UN, and numerous ad-hoc global treaties.
Global cooperation doesn't have to be global governance, and involve everything and the kitchen sink.
>Shouldn't international laws and co-operation between nations, naturally develop into a global government?
No, they shouldn't.
We have different cultures and different preferences in our different countries, we don't want powerful bully countries coercing us in what to believe, including countries so backwards as to still practice the death penalty or to think "welfare" is some dirty word.