Weekly Inchoate No. 2
Summarizing the week's posts -- 30 x 30 and Enter the Leviathans
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This week was all about the big global picture, starting from the 30 x 30 conservation initiative, then checking the need for a both/and re: mitigation and adaptation in the face of climate change, then an interview with John Gray, the British philosopher and political thinker, the rise of the new Leviathans, and for resource Friday: the World Economic Forum.
I’ll continue to look at possible political futures in the Anthropocene in the coming days. Despite what the media is telling you, it’s not just about the 2024 elections, folks!
Have a good weekend.
The 30 x 30 Conservation Initiative
30 by 30 (or 30x30) is a worldwide initiative for governments to designate 30% of Earth's land and 30% of oceans and waterways as protected areas by 2030. In December 2022, 30 by 30 was agreed at the COP15 meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity, a global
Mitigation *and* Adaptation
Two Responses What shall we do about climate change? Yes, we need to keep studying it, gathering data and building models and working on technological, economic, social, and policy solutions. But what does all of this aim at? Basically two things: mitigation or adaptation.
Tyler Cowen Interviews John Gray
I’m in the midst of reading several of John Gray’s books, including his most recent The New Leviathans. (Expect to hear more about Leviathan in upcoming posts.) Yesterday I listened to Tyler Cowen’s podcast interview — which talks about just about everything besides Gray’s new book! It’s well worth a listen and includes many more nuggets and pearls than…
New Leviathans
First off, I was completely wrong yesterday to claim that Cowen’s interview with John Gray talks about every except the new book, entitled The New Leviathans. Every topic in that interview plays out in the book. I see that now that I’m getting into it.
The World Economic Forum
No doubt you’ve heard of it. The World Economic Forum is known for gathering the elites of the world together every year at the Davos ski resort in Switzerland to push a global “stakeholder” economic agenda. Along with the United Nations the Forum is one of the premier global organizations that tries to decide how the world should (and, often, does) wor…