Gridlock in government1/22/2024 ![]() ![]() ![]() And new kinds of problems emerged: vulnerability to gas prices, smog, sedentary lifestyles, etc. But this just led to more people getting cars and moving further from urban centers, generating yet more traffic. Soon the existing roads became clogged, and more had to be built. People began moving to communities where you had to have a car, or two, to get around. This shift paved the way not just for cars, but for decades of economic growth and fundamental changes in the nature of American society. In the US, the interstate highway system, as the project was called, cut the time required to cross the country from weeks to days. To see why, think about your last trip in a car.Īfter World War II, developed countries, and especially the United States, set about building modern road networks. The multilateral institutions we rely on to solve global problems are less and less able to do so, even as the problems themselves grow worse. And just 5 years after the worst financial crisis since the 1930s forged enormous political will to reduce the risks created by global financial flows, regulation is increasingly balkanized and, in many places, far too weak. After 21 years of climate talks, we have yet to find a way to meaningfully reduce the amount of carbon pouring into the atmosphere. The world has not been able to negotiate a new global trade deal for 19 years. Many of the causes of contemporary gridlock stem in part from the previous successes of the multilateral order. ![]()
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