Perfect partners

Perfect partners George Monbiot’s book The Age Of Consent and the movie Team America: World Police. You’ll laugh, you’ll cry. Monbiot is right: the international order established by the WWII victors transfers wealth to them from poor countries. Climate change is only one aspect of the global tragedy of the commons which the jostling of nation states for resources makes worse, not better. He advocates a world parliament. It would have many weaknesses, but we need something better than international competition, and have no better ideas.