Peter Drahos, Professor of Law and Governance at the European University Institute, Florence, has published a new book titled Survival Governance: Energy and Climate in the Chinese Century (OUP).
To deal with the climate crisis we need a new paradigm of technological and social development aimed at the restoration of ecological systems - the bio-digital energy paradigm - and China is the world power best positioned to lead this change. The climate and energy crisis requires a strong state to change the direction, speed, and scale of innovation in world capitalism. There are only a few possible contenders for catalyzing this governance of survival: China, the European Union, India, and the United States. While China is an improbable leader--and in fact the world’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gasses--Peter Drahos explains in Survival Governance why this authoritarian state is actually more likely to implement systemic change swiftly and effectively than any other power.
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