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Sufficiency of international cooperation to resolve ecological breakdown

Determine whether the international community can cooperate to a degree sufficient to resolve ecological breakdown, and identify the conditions under which such cooperation is achievable.

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Background

In motivating the need for Artificial Utopias, the paper notes escalating geopolitical crises and the challenge of global cooperation in addressing ecological collapse.

This frames a high-level unresolved question about international coordination capacity relevant to the broader motivations for studying alternative democratic systems.

References

Beyond social and ecological realms, geopolitical crises and wars are escalating and it is not clear whether the international community will ever cooperate to a degree sufficient to resolving ecological breakdown \parencite{scheffran2023limits}.

Artificial Utopia: Simulation and Intelligent Agents for a Democratised Future (2503.07364 - Oswald, 10 Mar 2025) in Section 1 (Introduction)