The New Possible Quotes

“The virus is fostering a commonality that we weren’t aware of, a biological commonality, where someone else’s health and behavior can really affect our own—whether they have health insurance, whether they are wearing their mask. It’s a rehearsal for climate change in that we recognize that there is no escaping our predicament. There’s no other place to go. We’re coming to see that we’re really all in the same boat.”
― Philip Clayton, The New Possible: Visions of Our World beyond Crisis

“The problems we face now are immense and numerous. We are a global society, but we are ruled by a nation-state system in which many still regard national interests as overriding any global considerations. And we have agreed to rule ourselves and run our affairs by way of a political economy that is unsustainable, extractive, and unjust, and yet is massively entrenched in national laws and international treaties. So the nation-state system is insufficient, and yet all we have; and neoliberal capitalism is cruel and destructive, and yet the world’s current overriding system of laws. How then to proceed? We have to use the tools at hand, and yet they are precisely a big part of the problem. It’s a dilemma.”
― Philip Clayton, The New Possible: Visions of Our World beyond Crisis