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If our governance structures—created by our underlying ethics—are not livable, if our decisions are causing global crises that threaten all life, then we must
seek new ways forward. Let not a construct of humanity—the state—destroy
humanity.
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If our governance structures—created by our underlying ethics—are not livable, if our decisions are causing global crises that threaten all life, then we must
seek new ways forward. Let not a construct of humanity—the state—destroy
humanity.
References
Baker P (2018) ‘Use That Word!’: Trump embraces the ‘nationalist’ label. New York Times. 23
October 2018. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/23/us/politics/nationalist-president-trump.
html. Accessed 01 Dec 2018
Brown D (2018) Interview with Gwiazdon K. via Zoom. 28 November 2018
Charter of the United Nations (1945). http://www.un.org/en/charter-united-nations/. Accessed
2018-11-10
Chibba S (2013) Ubuntu is about relationships, 19 September 2013. https://www.brandsouthafrica.
com/people-culture/people/ubuntu-is-about-relationships. Accessed 2018-11-10
Eze MO (2008) What is African communitarianism? Against consensus as a regulative ideal. S Afr
J Philos 27(4):386–399
Eze MO (2010) Intellectual history in contemporary South Africa. Palgrave MacMillan
Finlayson G (2005) Habermas: a very short introduction. Oxford University Press
Fleurbaey M et al (2014) Sustainable development and equity. In: Edenhofer O et al (eds) Climate
Change 2014: Mitigation of Climate Change. Contribution of Working Group III to the Fifth
Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Cambridge University
Press, Cambridge
Friedman U (2018) Is democracy dying? U.N. Secretary-General: American Power Is in Decline,
the World Is ‘in Pieces’. 13 September 2018
Ghodsee KR (2015) Einstein’s pacifism: a conversation with Wolfram Wette. Institute for Advanced
Study. https://www.ias.edu/ideas/2015/ghodsee-einstein-pacifism. Accessed 2018-12-01
Gwiazdon K (2018) The state versus the environment: the ethical and legal implications for state
non-action in protecting the foundations of life. In: Westra L, Bosselmann K, Gray J, Gwiazdon
K (eds) Ecological integrity, law and governance. Routledge
International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty (2001) The Responsibility to
Protect: Report of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty.
December 2001. http://www.globalr2p.org/media/files/iciss_report.pdf. Accessed 2018-11-10
Kant I (2009) An answer to the question: what is enlightenment? (trans: Nisbet HB). Penguin
Books, London
Kounalakis M (2018) Under Trump’s “sovereignty doctrine,” foreign tyrants have nothing to worry
about. Miami Herald. 01 November 2018. https://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/op-ed/article220974935.html. Accessed 2018-11-10
Metz T (2017) What Archbishop Tutu’s ubuntu credo teaches the world about justice and harmony.
The Conversation. 4 October 2017. http://theconversation.com/what-archbishop-tutus-ubuntucredo-teaches-the-world-about-justice-and-harmony-84730. Accessed 2018-11-10
Polychroniou CJ (2018) Human rights, state sovereignty, and international law: an interview with
Richard Falk. Global Policy Journal. 11 September 2018. https://www.globalpolicyjournal.
com/blog/11/09/2018/human-rights-state-sovereignty-and-international-law-interview-richard-falk. Accessed 2018-11-10
Posth C et al (2017) Deeply divergent archaic mitochondrial genome provides lower time boundary for African gene flow into Neanderthals. Nat Commun 8, Article number: 16046. https://
www.nature.com/articles/ncomms16046. Accessed 2018-11-10
Rawls J (1951) Outline of a decision for ethics. Philos Rev 60(2)
K. A. Gwiazdon