One World Government?

[Anomalocaris]

Sae wants to be a mad scientist when she grows up.

Well,she's half way there.

She is fully there on the mad part. The scientist part might be a bridge too far.

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I think some form of single government with strong de facto authority over the bulk of human society is highly probable, and necessary, if modern society were make the sort of long term commitment needed to marshal the resources needed to counteract the effects climate change, bring much of the world up to 1st world level of industrial and infrastructural development, and use the productivity towards such epochal projects as terraforming the earth to sustain its compatibility with our global industrialization, and initiating extra-earth colonization in earnest - projects whose resource demands would be steep even for a world that is fully industrialized.

It could be that such a de fact government may have elsastic powers which expand or contract depending on the occasion. It may also be that such government exist in a division of power arrangement with national governments. But absence of such global government makes me think the human species will remain a collection of squabbling, mutually defeating collection of overgrown religious cultural tribes squandering efforts through local cynicism and efforts to undercut one another.