Planet in Peril

1. Introduction

Part I. Existential Threats: The Four Most Pressing Dangers Facing Humankind:
2. Fossil fuels and climate change
3. Nukes for war and peacetime
4. Pandemics, natural or bioengineered
5. Artificial intelligence: extreme reward and risk

Part II. Strategies and Obstacles: The Solutions We Need, and What's Preventing them from Being Realized:
6. How to beat climate change
7. Wise governance for nukes and pandemics: where to go faster and where to slow down
8. Controlling things vs. controlling agents: the challenge of high-level AI 160
9. The international dimension: where every solution stumbles
Prologue to Parts III, IV, and V: Does history have a direction? Hegel, Smith, Darwin

Part III. Sensible Steps for Today's World: Powerful Measures we Can Implement Right Away:
10. Do it now: five points of leverage
11. Constructive moves on the international front for the next 25 years
12. Breaking the political logjam
13. Lessons from the green movement: how to build lasting change in the absence of full consensus

Part IV. The Middle-Term Goal: New International Tools for the Late 21st Century:
14. A promising track record: the dramatic growth of international institutions and networks since 1900
15. How to escape the sovereignty trap: lessons and limitations of the EU Model
16. Taking the UN up a notch: planet-level solutions for the year 2100
17. The other path to 2100: ruthless competition, fingers crossed

Part V. The Long-Term Goal: Envisioning a Mature System of Global Governance for the 22nd Century:
18. Global government in a world of democracies and dictatorships: what it might look like in 2150
19. Keeping the system accountable and fair
20. Collective military security and economic sanctions: how to handle rogues, cheaters, and fanatics
21. What could go wrong?
22. Conclusion.