Planetary Politics and National Security are Incompatible

Planetary ideals are a smoke screen if they don't confront the forces of militarism, exclusion, and extraction

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The Berggruen Institute has announced a $25k Berggruen Prize Essay Competition on the topic of “planetarity.” They say:

the planetary technostructure that humans have created and in which we are embedded is revealing our condition of planetarity — that is, the inescapability of our embeddedness in an Earth-…