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    It is not the case that Nations cannot effectively address threats to public health, including those from climate change, without collective global action.

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    • 1.Subsidiarity principles, defended by thinkers from Aquinas to contemporary federalists, hold that governance is most effective at the lowest competent level.
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    • 2.Empirical evidence from Elinor Ostrom's polycentric governance research demonstrates that local and regional institutions often outperform global bodies in managing shared resources.
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    • 3.Therefore, fragmenting public health authority into a single global mechanism may reduce rather than enhance effective response by eliminating adaptive local experimentation.
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    • 1.Effective collective action requires enforcement mechanisms, but legitimate enforcement presupposes a sovereign authority that no current global institution possesses.
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    • 2.Realist international relations theory, from Hobbes through Waltz, establishes that sovereign states will defect from cooperative frameworks when national interests diverge.
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    • 3.Therefore, the claim conflates the normative desirability of global cooperation with its practical achievability, rendering it action-guiding only in idealized rather than real-world conditions.
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    • Many threats to public health, including threats from climate change, require collective global action to be effectively addressed.
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