The world is going to have huge difficulty coping with the crises of the 21st century. Covid-19 has already shown that. More frequent future pandemics, the looming climate catastrophe, environmental collapse, the ongoing Sixth Mass Extinction with increasingly rapid loss of species, water wars, overpopulation, human mass migration – all these await mankind. Climate change, just to take the most obvious example, is a vastly more immense, much more complicated problem that requires navigation of complex scientific analysis and the imposition of painful policies internationally to ensure collective survival.