And Now For Where This Is All Leading: Experts Say Time Has Come For Global Governance

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And 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.