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Now For Where This Is All Leading: Experts Say Time
Has Come For Global Governance
These conditions of overexposure are for the most part
unprecedented, raising numerous questions for which we
don’t yet have the right answers. What kind of
protection would be appropriate in such a world? Not
surprisingly, a contagious globalization that
increases vulnerability inevitably triggers preventive
and defensive strategies that are not always
proportionate or reasonable. The xenophobia and
chauvinism that some of the defensive strategies can
awaken may end up doing more harm than the threats
from which they were intended to protect us. So, in
this era of global warming, of smart bombs and cyber
warfare and worldwide epidemics, our societies must be
protected with more complex and subtle strategies.