16 Governance: Tackling the Unanticipated Consequences

“creating a sustainable future for ourselves and the rest of the living world.”

p. 368.

vocabulary | outline | summary | figure

Vocabulary   

Who pays & how? Risk, unforeseen reactions, accumulating equity, insurance, responsible government, democratic values, enforcement.

“But the human rise to dominance has been so spectacular and far reaching that affairs today are far more complex, and civilizations problems can’t be solved by just dealing with individuals or migrating as groups in search of opportunities for better governance.”

p. 331.

Outline

1. Globalization { 333

2. Problems in Governance { 338

a. Invasions

b. Public issues table USA < 340

3. Corporations and wealth (the new Caesars) { 343

a. “as individuals are ‘legal fictions, ’ discrete legal entities...”

b. role in global resource sequestration & pollution abating.

4. Discount rates and concern about the Future {345

5. Foresight Capability { 350

6. Conflict over resources {352

a. Peak oil

b. Water scarcity

7. The Environment & International Governance (UN, IUCN, {354

MAHB

Eight goals of millennium development UN { 357

“the stakes of political error have become greater for everyone since World War II.” {359

Summary

Homo sapiens “changed from and evolutionary to a revolutionary animal by laying the ground work for an accelerating flowering of technology. That change now may have put all of humanity on a course resembling the fate of ancient civilizations that collapsed.”

P. 362.

Epilogue

pp. 363-376.

“We have been privileged as few human beings are today...”

p. 363.

“coming to a turning point”

p. 364.

Dealing with “economic inequity, . . .“erosion of environmental resilence.”

p. 368.

Glossary is on p. 377.

Ode to joy