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Back in NWSH #36, I wrote about the coming challenge posed to the Global North by climate migration. I published that essay with some trepidation, because it’s so dark. It turned out to be one of the most read instalments ever.
This week’s essay is a companion piece. It extends an idea articulated in the original, on how loyalty to nation might be used to motivate action against climate change.
This week’s essay goes further. It floats an idea that feels – to me at least – something verging on heretical. What if a new, enlightened nationalism is the key to unlocking movement on the entire progressive agenda, from regulation of Big Tech, to global inequality, to climate?
What if nationalism and the progressive cause go together?
It’s so strange, I’m still not sure I believe it. But enough preamble; hit play!
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Links in this week’s instalment
1. NWSH #36 is about the coming challenge posed to the Global North by climate migration.
2. Last year Oxfam reported that the world’s richest 26 people controlled as much of the Earth’s wealth as the 3.8 billion poorest.
3. In 2018 the Brookings Institute reported that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is the 17th largest funder of the United Nations, ahead of Spain, Russia and Ireland.
4. Foreign policy expert Sean McFate has floated the idea that in the decades ahead we’ll see a new global Middle Ages, in which billionaire overlords and multinational corporations run their own private armies.
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David.
New World Same Humans #43 – Audio Version