1. Small, incremental steps to solve climate change and other global problems are possible, but not the really large strides the world now desperately needs. The key barrier to solving almost any global problem, whether it's climate change, wealth inequality, nuclear weapons or tax avoidance, is that no national government can move first or act alone because doing so would make its national economy uncompetitive in the global market, risking unemployment, capital flight and economic decline.
2. DGC is the perfectly logical result of the systemic mismatch between an already-global economy and predominantly national governance. You cannot govern a global economy with only national governance!
3. DGC and Pseudo-democracy are global phenomena requiring a cooperative global response. The fact that the lurch towards right-wing populism/nationalism is happening simultaneously right across the Western world, and not just patchily, demonstrates that something global is going on.
4. DGC can only be overcome and global collapse averted if governments can be released from its vicious circle and implement the higher taxes and tighter regulations that global problems now demand.
5. Accepting the reality of DGC means realising that it's not that governments don't want to solve global problems, but that they can't.
6. Campaigns by major NGOs (eg. Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth, Extinction Rebellion, etc) are misguided in that their demands for action focus on individual governments. But DGC determines that individual governments cannot act substantively. Only collective, global-and-simultaneous action by all, or nearly all, governments could suffice.

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INPUT REQUEST #4: Assumptions

• Which assumptions are unclear to you?
• Which assumptions do you strongly disagree with?
• What assumptions do you think should be added to the list?

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