There is no shortage of explanations for why the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved its metaphorical “Doomsday Clock” up by a whopping 4 seconds Tuesday, to 85 seconds to midnight. For instance, world leaders are openly talking about testing and using nuclear weapons, and the US is taking the threat of fossil-fuel-driven climate change even less seriously than it did last year.
But underlying all of the existential threats we’ve created for ourselves is a lack of cooperation, made far worse by…
