{"id":27334,"date":"2016-06-29T03:49:05","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T10:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/end-of-nations-is-there-an-alternative-to-countries"},"modified":"2017-04-24T20:28:32","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T03:28:32","slug":"end-of-nations-is-there-an-alternative-to-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/end-of-nations-is-there-an-alternative-to-countries","title":{"rendered":"End of nations: Is there an alternative to countries?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/end-of-nations-is-there-an-alternative-to-countries.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nation states cause some of our biggest problems, from civil war to climate inaction. Science suggests there are better ways to run a planet.<\/p>\n<p>By Debora MacKenzie<\/p>\n<p>Try, for a moment, to envisage a world without countries. Imagine a map not divided into neat, coloured patches, each with clear borders, governments, laws. Try to describe anything our society does \u2013 trade, travel, science, sport, maintaining peace and security \u2013 without mentioning countries. Try to describe yourself: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/documents\/udhr\/\">you have a right<\/a> to at least one nationality, and the right to change it, but not the right to have none.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg22329850-600-end-of-nations-is-there-an-alternative-to-countries\/?utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=SOC&utm_campaign=hoot&cmpid=SOC%7CNSNS%7C2016-GLOBAL-hoot\">https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg22329850&#45;600-end-...LOBAL-hoot<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nation states cause some of our biggest problems, from civil war to climate inaction. Science suggests there are better ways to run a planet. By Debora MacKenzie Try, for a moment, to envisage a world without countries. Imagine a map not divided into neat, coloured patches, each with clear borders, governments, laws. Try to describe [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,1492],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27334"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50210,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27334\/revisions\/50210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}