The world has changed on us. It is no longer our national governments that are in control of the affairs of the world. They are not in a position to solve the problems we face. Our big problems today are global -– global warming and the reduction of CO2, terrorism, the gap between rich and poor, severe weather, and so on.
Global warming is such a challenge, not only because we have a world governance structure that makes it very difficult to act decisively, but also because it is inherently difficult for the people who caused this problem to solve it. We would have to suddenly develop a completely new way of living and looking at the world—one that requires us to sacrifice today so that future generations will be spared the consequences of our shortsightedness. We might actually get there, but it will surely take many decades, under the best of scenarios, before a completely foreign way of behaving takes hold.
Reducing the CO2 in the atmosphere to acceptable levels means that we have to get cooperation between developing and developed nations to a level the world has never seen.
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