"Only such a structure of deliberate multiscalar governance, one that eschews the fetishization of national sovereignty, can ensure the habitability necessary to enable multispecies (and thus ultimately human) flourishing."Jonathan S. Blake and Nils Gilman, Children of a Modest Star (2024), via their own Aeon summary, "Governing for the planet"
This is the closest anyone gets without quite arriving. Habitability, here, is what governance should aim at — "our new lodestar," in their own words a few sentences later. A lodestar sits ahead of you; it doesn't sit underneath you. Sovereignty in their account keeps its old job, just aimed at a better target through "planetary subsidiarity." What's missing is the harder claim: that habitability isn't the destination governance travels toward, but the ground it was supposed to be standing on all along, and that a government maintaining it badly should lose standing over the maintaining, not just adopt a nicer goal.