"Because we know! Because we can! For the sake of the survivors, I suppose." He shrugged. "There’s no global government. There’s no formal, deliberate control over the course of events, anywhere. Institutions have given up. Governments have given up. Corporations have given up. But the people in the room, and the many others who are like us and with us, we’ve never given up. We’re the closest thing this planet has to an actual working government."