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The upcoming US presidential election in November 2020 is on track to go down in history as the moment when humanity lost its last opportunity to collectively address overwhelming global risks, and sealed the fate of the planet.

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As of August 1st 2020, any sufficiently informed rational adult, anywhere on the planet, does not need any further information to know that the previous statement is not hyperbole and probably correct.

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At this juncture, national governments are chiefly functioning to enforce historical claims to resources as the private property of archaic social classes.

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The post-imperial national governments are collapsing into dysfunctional one-party states, because these historical claims are in the way of meaningful adaptation to the current existential risks.

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The US is the clearest example of this, followed most closely by the UK and BRIC nations. All these governments have clearly demonstrated their incapacity to recognise and respond to current global risks, let alone correctly prioritise or implement such reponse.

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This situation at last clears the space for a proportional and rational response to our collective situation, in the form of a new, globally-distributed political platform and constitution, for effective response to climate change and related risks.

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