Children of a Modest Star: Planetary Thinking for an Age of Crises

by Jonathan S. Blake

A clear-eyed and urgent vision for a new system of political governance to manage planetary issues and their local consequences.

Deadly viruses, climate-changing carbon molecules, and harmful pollutants cross the globe unimpeded by national borders. While the consequences of these flows range across scales, from the planetary to the local, the authority and resources to manage them are concentrated mainly at one level: the nation-state...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503637859
• ISBN13: 9781503637856
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"