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Nuclear deterrence remains the primary guarantor of great-power peace, making significant nuclear disarmament strategically premature in current conditions.

Antimicrobial resistance is a public health emergency requiring binding international rules on antibiotic use in agriculture and medicine.

Governments should prioritise healthy life expectancy and wellbeing indicators over GDP growth as the primary measures of national progress.

A permanent international pandemic preparedness fund financed by treaty obligation — not discretionary aid — is necessary after the failures of COVID response.

Mental health conditions receive a fraction of the clinical and research investment justified by their economic and social burden.

The public health burden of ultra-processed food consumption is severe enough to justify mandatory advertising restrictions and reformulation requirements.

Compulsory licensing of essential medicine patents is justified when patent protection prevents access in low- and middle-income countries.

Universal healthcare funded through general taxation achieves better population health outcomes than insurance-based systems at comparable total cost.

The 15% global corporate minimum tax agreed through the OECD is necessary but should be raised further to meaningfully reduce profit shifting to tax havens.

Central banks should formally weight full employment as an equal mandate to price stability, not treat inflation control as the sole objective.

High collective bargaining coverage reduces wage inequality more effectively than minimum wage legislation alone.

International trade agreements must include binding, independently enforceable labour and environmental standards.

Restrictive zoning and planning regulations are the primary cause of housing unaffordability in most major cities.

A universal basic income set at the poverty line would reduce poverty more effectively than current means-tested benefit systems.

A direct annual tax on net wealth above a high threshold is necessary to address asset concentration that income taxation alone cannot reach.

Generative AI systems capable of producing realistic synthetic media should be required to embed detectable watermarks in their outputs.

Training AI systems on personal data without explicit opt-in consent should be prohibited under data protection law.

Global AI safety governance requires a binding multilateral treaty process, not voluntary national commitments.

AI-driven automation will displace significantly more jobs than it creates this decade, requiring fundamental redesign of social insurance systems.

AI developers should bear strict legal liability for foreseeable harms caused by their deployed systems, as manufacturers do for physical products.