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With humanity now making its impact felt on a global scale, there is clearly no sustainable future for humanity without some form of global governance that is able to moderate and control that impact. That is not necessarily the same thing as a world “government” as such. But there must be a way to make […]

© Sémhur / Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-SA-4.0 This week’s news from the Middle East has been alarming: Israel’s surprise attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities. Iran’s missile barrage on Israel in response. US bombers joining in Israel’s attack on Iran. Iran’s Foreign Minister seeking military support from Vladimir Putin. All pointing toward the growing danger of World War III.

Hiroshima after atomic bombing, Aug. 1945 On January 23rd, in a video address to the annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, Donald Trump made a surprise announcement: “We’d like to see denuclearization,” he said. He went on to claim that he had been working with Putin during his previous term as President “on

Photo of the World Leaders Climate Action Summit at COP29 in Azerbaijan (C.C. 4.0) A major focus of COP29, which took place over two weeks in Azerbaijan, was climate finance.  The goal was to reach a new and ambitious climate finance goal with developed nations taking financial responsibility for mitigation, adaptation, loss, and damages to