Global disruptions and non-cooperation

The first problem has been the very premise of the globalisation project

It seems that the entire edifice of an interdependent world is collapsing, and at a time when we need cooperation more than ever to address the existential crisis of climate change.

Roughly 30 years ago, as our world embarked on the path to interdependency, it signed the free trade agreement and brought in rules on how it would operate commerce between nations. Then it brought in a slew of more agreements for everything from climate change to biodiversity to global trade in hazardous waste, to stitch together a framework for an ecologically interdependent world. The twin objectives were to spread prosperity