Wasn’t quite sure where to ask the question in the title, or if this is even the right question to ask, but figured a Solarpunk community would be most likely to have the answers I’m looking for…

My reasoning is we are facing some global problems here, you know with all the climate change and whatnot; So we need global solutions for them; Therefore the obvious solution seems to be the United Nations 2.0, or League of Nations 3.0 if you will. Basically a global constitutional assembly, hopefully before it all devolves into total war again this time, or worse.

So I want to read up on what thought or maybe even activism there is out there specifically in this regard. Anything to read, recent or historic, you can recommend?

Any thoughts you want to share? Why can or can’t this work? Am I being to naive here? Explain it Like I am 5 please!

  • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    20 days ago

    I think you are being naive. The LofN failed, the UN is now failing too.

    None of them really can do much other than issue recommendations, which are then used for political plays for optics on the international stage. They by definition cannot solve problems. That said some related incentives have succeeded, such as the WHO. The idea of a United earth authority is not unappealing, but it needs to have teeth, and that’s not easy to achieve, because geopolitical power today stems from cultivating economic dependence and nuclear stockpiles, without both, the any United earth is out of the question.

    However, I think something like the European Federation is in theory, more feasible, these countries are not only dependant on each other, but they are culturally adjacent, an easier sell. However even that is extremely difficult, potentially impossible, in a world where national idea won over the solidarity idea. EU is failing too.