Moreover, capitalism's tendency to deepen inequalities of wealth and power is tightly linked to the challenge of confronting climate change. 22 Any attempt to reduce planetary carbon emissions will require sacrifices and transnational alliances. Deep inequalities within and between nations are fatal to such efforts: intranationally because inequalities make it difficult to build trans-class coalitions around shared sacrifice and entrench the capacity of the wealthy to prevent the conversion of carbon-intensive economies into more sustainable alternatives, and internationally because the world's stupefying inequalities of wealth and power prevent the transnational coordination that will be necessary for Leviathan to rule effectively. Thus, even if Climate Leviathan can come into beingthrough a global consolidation of ecological and economic sovereignty and some combination of coercion and consentit is unlikely to secure confident hegemony. But we should not assume it will die an early or quiet death. Today its advocates desperately seek a containment strategy for its foes