People’s Climate March: Can We Scale up the Politics of Humanity?
Failure of Imagination as an Existential Threat

by Zeynep Tufekci

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How do we go to a global politics?

In the middle of all this, there’s the Internet and digital connectivity, which, despite all the re-territorialization that is going on globally, still connects us at multiple levels, including globally as well as locally — which is exactly what we need. This, above any other reason, is why I study, worry and think this much about digital connectivity: not just because it brings us cool tools (it does), and new friends (that, too), but because at this historical moment, it is the only common infrastructure with the required scope and scale if we are to have any chance of confronting the issues that we face, globally, as one world.

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