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Nishimura believes that a nation-state-based analysis not only limits our vision but also highlights our hypocrisy by limiting our complicity and responsibility in what is no longer a national issue. We live, he says, “in a world of global interdependency and of global subcontracting networks. It is global production in which we use China as an ind
... See morePrasenjit Duara • The Crisis of Global Modernity: Asian Traditions and a Sustainable Future (Asian Connections)
This is what it means to live beyond the “end of nature”—that it is human action that will determine the climate of the future, not systems beyond our control. And it’s why, despite the unmistakable clarity of the predictive science, all of the tentative sketches of climate scenarios that appear in this book are so oppressively caveated with possib
... See moreBut to say that governments and peoples have options vis-Ă -vis globalization is not to suggest any country is able to opt out of globalization entirely. Climate change, for example, respects no borders.
Richard Haass • The World
with it an important lesson. Humanity’s search for an easier life released immense forces of change that transformed the world in ways nobody envisioned or wanted.