Global society has slightly different dynamics, though, because of emergent properties of that scale. For example, countries or even some continents could suff

Global society has slightly different dynamics, though, because of emergent properties of that scale. For example, countries or even some continents could suffer ecological collapse without global society necessarily being threatened. The other side of that coin, though, is that global society has introduced global risks, in terms of the amount of CO2 it is able to put into the atmosphere (which is a shared resource we all rely on), and the ability to create weapons or pathogens of global destruction due to technology.