The notion of independent autonomous nation states no longer makes sense. We have to start thinking of ourselves as citizens of planet earth. A problem anywhere on the planet is now likely the whole planet's problem. The have nations consume at a per capita rate twenty times that of the third world countries. They keep people in the third world in poverty providing them with raw materials for a life style that is destroying the entire planet.
Pollutants created in Florida show up in Canada's high arctic and in Antarctica.
We all live in one house. The Third World nation continue to breed like rabbits even though modern vaccines have vastly increased the survival rates of children. Religious leaders demand even more fecundity to bolster their sect's ranks. The Pope sent workers to interfere with the UN conference on population control. Christian George W. Bush ignores the ecology of the planet.