Is There Still a Breakaway System?

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I would love Scotland Iceland I think maybe Ireland Finland New Zealand to be able to do something yeah but my logical head says they just don't have the heft. We would need China and Russia and India and the US and maybe the European Union as a whole to give something like that sufficient bite. The rest of those are all pretty much wholly owned by large multinationals and or fossil fuel companies which are also large multinationals so IT multinationals are fossil fuel multinationals Do you think there are still enough independent governance units who could do something that had actual teeth create something that actually would work? yes I do.

Rupert Read is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of East Anglia, but he is also a Green party activist, and a prolific speaker, media spokesperson and author advocating for a wholehearted, whole-culture response to the Climate and Ecological Emergency.

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