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Hey I grew up super environmental and I have plenty of hippie cred, but this statement gave me shudders "the only real solution is a one world government". Yeesh, yeah a single government, surely nothing could go wrong.

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The Savior fallacy. With power more concentrated, the ability to avoid being impacted for those in power rises and rises and rises. How are incentives then aligned? I'm sure that having 10 million governments would be much better than having one to solve the issue.

I mean we're staring at apocalypse here so it's not like the alternative is any better.

It can ALWAYS get worse.

We're always staring at the apocalypse though. It is really worse than during the Cuban missile crisis?

Also: you can justify just about anything by inspiring panic. I'm not buying it.

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