📗 Libro en inglés CHILDREN OF A MODEST STAR

A clear eyed and urgent vision for a new system of political governance to manage planetary issues and their local consequences Deadly viruses climate changing carbon molecules and harmful pollutants cross the globe unimpeded by national borders While the consequences of these flows range across scales from the planetary to the local the authority and resources to manage them are concentrated mainly at one level the nation state This profound mismatch between the scale of planetary challenges and the institutions tasked with governing them is leading to cascading systemic failures In the groundbreaking Children of a Modest Star Jonathan S Blake and Nils Gilman not only challenge dominant ways of thinking about humanity s relationship to the planet and the political forms that presently govern it but also present a new innovative framework that corresponds to our inherently planetary condition Drawing on intellectual history political philosophy and the holistic findings of Earth system science Blake and Gilman argue that it is essential to reimagine our governing institutions in light of the fact that we can only thrive if the multi species ecosystems we inhabit are also flourishing Aware of the interlocking challenges we face it is no longer adequa