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Independent Online Edition > World Politics:
"The most potent threats to life on earth - global warming, health pandemics, poverty and armed conflict - could be ended by moves that would unlock $7 trillion - $7,000,000,000,000 (�3.9trn) - of previously untapped wealth, the United Nations claims today.
The price? An admission that the nation-state is an old-fashioned concept that has no role to play in a modern globalised world where financial markets have to be harnessed rather than simply condemned.
In a groundbreaking move, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) has drawn up a visionary proposal that has been endorsed by a range of figures including Gordon Brown, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel Laureate."
posted by Dody G. at 12:09 AM
2 Comments:
Well, things are kind of going that way anyway. The WTO has an immense amount of power that is well beyound the bounds of the UN, and even some national governments. Good thing the US sent Wolfowitz in there to run things.
1:40 AM
well, I'm all for it, who needs nation states anyways, just imagine, no more threats to eradicate another country, no more visa regulations, no more discrimination based on your nationality... but what would all those AIESECers do who brag with the number of countries they've visited???
3:52 PM
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