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Nature 453, 282-283 (15 May 2008) | doi:10.1038/453282a; Published online 14 May 2008

Open Innovation Challenges

Big problems, big decisions

Michael Sargent1

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Sustainable solutions to worldwide crises such as overpopulation and climate change need regulating by global bodies, but whose views should these organizations represent?

BOOK REVIEWEDFatal Misconception: The Struggle to Control World Population

by Matthew Connelly

Harvard University Press: 2008. 544 pp. $35.00, £22.95

BOOK REVIEWEDCommon Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet

by Jeffrey D. Sachs

Penguin/Allen Lane: 2008. 400 pp. £27.95, £22

Supranational organizations are necessary to monitor the welfare of our planet. They alert us to impending crises, develop policies to avert dangers and induce governments to respond.